The Hong Kong school curriculum and the political transition: Politicisation, contextualization and symbolic action

The Hong Kong school curriculum and the political transition: Politicisation, contextualization and symbolic action

Education and political transition: Implications of Hong Kong's change of sovereignty

• Morris, P.
• Chan, K. K.

• Bray, Mark
• Lee, W. O.

Hong Kong

Comparative Education Research Centre, University of Hong Kong

1997

• D Curriculum
  • DB Development & Evaluation
• P Social Context of Education
  • PE Law & Education ; Politics & Education

Curriculum Development School Curriculum Political Transition

• Hong Kong

• 1990-1997.6
• 1997.7 onwards

• Primary Education
• Secondary Education

The paper analyzes through a historical perspective the impact on the school curriculum on the return of Hong Kong's sovereignty to China. The authors argue that the transition has had a significant impact on the intended curriculum due to attempts by the departing colonial government to reform the curriculum. However, these reforms have had a limited impact on the implemented curriculum, which has been more strongly influenced by the emergence of a market in which schools compete for academically more able students.

• English

Book Chapters

• 9628093908

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/fe6720f8

2010-08-26