Policy of quality assurance in Hong Kong preschools

Policy of quality assurance in Hong Kong preschools

• Ho, Dora Choi Wa Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Early Child Development and Care, 177(5), 493-505, 2007

Routledge

2007

• R Educational Policy & Administration
  • RF School Supervision, Accountability & Inspection: Education Indicators, Privatization of School
• Q Philosophy of Education, Educational System & School At Different Levels
  • QB Pre-school Education, Child Caring Facilities, Maternal & Infantile Health Facilities

Foreign Countries History Educational Change Quality Control Preschool Education Educational Quality Educational Policy Educational History Governance Government Role Politics of Education Instructional Leadership Hong Kong

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Pre-Primary Education

This article discusses the sources, processes and impact of the quality assurance policy implemented in Hong Kong preschools. Regarded as a sort of policy alignment between the subsystems of pre-primary, primary and secondary education, the introduction of a quality assurance policy has been directly and indirectly transforming the settlements in the preschool context. The first section of this article examines the main shift in policy direction shaped by the global movement of supranational organizations and the local agenda of educational reform after 1997. The historical review of the changing parameters in the preschool field is provided in the second section as a backdrop for later discussion. The third section analyses how the local governance of education is subtly transforming the settlements in the preschool field. The fourth section discusses how the quality assurance policy is mediated with school-level realities. It is argued that the top-down approach adopted by policy-makers should be critically re-examined in the policy process in order to ensure the quality of preschool education.
[Copyright of Early Child Development and Care is the property of Routledge. Full article may be available at the publisher's website:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03004430600563836]

• English

Journal Articles

• 03004430

• 10.1080/03004430600563836

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/33633304

2010-09-27