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Management of outsourcing extra-curricular activities in primary schools: Issues and considerations

  • Management of outsourcing extra-curricular activities in primary schools: Issues and considerations
  • Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration and Management
  • 2015
    • Hong Kong
    • 1997.7 onwards
    • Primary Education
  • In Hong Kong, many school principals have outsourced their extra-curricular activities to reduce the workload of teachers and provide more activity options for students. This article reports on a qualitative study aimed at examining the views of a group of 16 teaching professionals from ten primary schools in Hong Kong on the effectiveness of, as well as the major concerns about, outsourcing extra-curricular activities. The findings indicate that three themes emerged from the data regarding the effectiveness of outsourcing extracurricular activities to external organisations: (1) reducing teachers' workload and cost saving; (2) enhancing the expertise of teachers; and (3) catering for the needs of both parents and students. On the other hand, the major concerns about outsourcing activities were: (1) increasing administrative duties; (2) quality of the activities; (3) linking activities to school curricula; and (4) student discipline. It is recommended that school, government and parent representatives be involved in the monitoring of delivering outsourcing activities.
    [Copyright © 2015 Education Pub.]
    • English
  • Journal Articles
    • 13241702
  • https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/744ee234
  • 2015-11-13

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