Blurred visions on a landscape of reform: Teacher education in Hong Kong

Blurred visions on a landscape of reform: Teacher education in Hong Kong

• Bodycott, Peter Thomas

Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 24(1), 13-28, 2004

Routledge

2004

• M Teachers & Education for Teachers
  • MA Professional Education for Teachers

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

This paper provides an analysis of recent educational reforms in Hong Kong that aim to transform the ideological basis of the curriculum, teaching and learning. While the reforms appear compatible with current international developments in higher education and school curriculum—movements, for example, towards standards-based accountability, the development of technological expertise and meeting the needs of diverse learners—major aspects of the reforms appear to contradict one another. The implications of current reforms for teacher education, in particular, are discussed together with issues related to the politicisa-tion of reforms and teacher education pedagogy. The discussion highlights the need for an alternative approach to educating and preparing both new and in-service teachers in Hong Kong to cope with the current and future educational reforms.
[Copyright © Nanyang Technological University & National Institute of Education.]

• English

Journal Articles

• 02188791

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/936a168b

2015-03-26