Early childhood art education in Hong Kong: Is any theory informing practice

Early childhood art education in Hong Kong: Is any theory informing practice

• Wong, Kit Mei Betty The Hong Kong Institute of Education
• Piscitelli, Barbara Ann

Asia-Pacific Journal for Arts Education, 7(1), 1-30, 2009

2009

• G Curriculum, Teaching & Learning: Specific Disciplines
  • GF Humanities & Arts
• Q Philosophy of Education, Educational System & School At Different Levels
  • QB Pre-school Education, Child Caring Facilities, Maternal & Infantile Health Facilities

WAP 2.0 XTHML-MP M-Learning

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Unknown or Unspecified

This paper examines the field of art education for young children in Hong Kong with a focus on the curriculum policy. A number of researchers have found that effects of cultures on the conceptions and understanding of art education for young children and its values are significant in their process of formation (e.g., Duncum, 2000, 2002; Freedman, 2000; Gardner, 2004; Green, 2000; Piscitelli, 1999; Piscitelli, Renshaw, Dunn & Hawke, 2004; Schirrmacher, 2001; Wright, 1991, 1997, 2003). This paper has applied the framework of the three orientations from Efland (1990), i.e. expressionism, reconstructionism and scientific rationalism in the analysis of Hong Kong curriculum policy documents and found that contradictions in terms of principles and practices are embedded. It is argued that these hidden but value-loaded assumptions about theories and practices in early childhood education and art education should be made explicit both in the formation of the policies and their implementation in schools if success is expected.
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