Journal Articles
The formation of a school subject and the nature of curriculum content: An analysis of liberal studies in Hong Kong
- The formation of a school subject and the nature of curriculum content: An analysis of liberal studies in Hong Kong
- Journal of Curriculum Studies, 41(5), 585-604, 2009
- Routledge
- 2009
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- Hong Kong
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- 1997.7 onwards
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- Secondary Education
- This essay explores the nature of the curriculum content of liberal studies--a core school subject in the new senior secondary curriculum in Hong Kong--with reference to the curriculum- making processes entailed in the formation of that subject. The central thesis is that a school subject is introduced to schools and classrooms as a distinct representation of content embodied in curriculum materials, entailing a theory of content--a special way of selecting, organizing, and framing the content for social, cultural, educational, curricular, and pedagogical purposes. Knowing the content of a school subject thus entails knowing more than the content per se; it entails an understanding of the underlying theory of content, which is necessary for disclosing and realizing the educational potential embodied in the content.[Copyright of Journal of Curriculum Studies is the property of Routledge . Full article may be available at the publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220270902767311]
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- English
- Journal Articles
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- 00220272
- 13665839
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/a48f2673
- 2010-11-28
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