Environmental education in Hong Kong kindergartens: What happened to the blue sky?

Environmental education in Hong Kong kindergartens: What happened to the blue sky?

• Lo, Eva Yuen Yi Dept of Early Childhood Education, Hong Kong Institute of Education

Early Child Development and Care, 180(5), 571-583, 2010

Routledge

2010

• G Curriculum, Teaching & Learning: Specific Disciplines
  • GI Services

Environmental Education Early Childhood Education Teachers -- Training Of Kindergarten Curricula Early Childhood Curriculum Teacher Education

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Pre-Primary Education

The Hong Kong government has sought to encourage environmental education (EE) in schools. However, little is known about how government and private initiatives impact at the level of the kindergarten. This article, based on a small-scale study, investigates what is happening in Hong Kong kindergartens in EE. The findings show that there have been positive changes in EE in Hong Kong kindergartens in the last decade: more hands-on environmental activities and resourcefulness of teachers in sourcing teaching materials. Teachers and parents were found to have positive attitudes. However, teachers had to tackle the following issues: the overloaded school curriculum and isolated environmental learning experience, teacher's insecurity and inadequate knowledge of EE, weakness of government support in terms of formal teacher training programmes and funding on EE.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 03004430

• 10.1080/03004430802181361

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/9959c7b8

2010-12-24