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The formation of a school subject and the nature of curriculum content: An analysis of liberal studies in Hong Kong

  • The formation of a school subject and the nature of curriculum content: An analysis of liberal studies in Hong Kong
  • Journal of Curriculum Studies, 41(5), 585-604, 2009
  • Routledge
  • 2009
    • Hong Kong
    • 1997.7 onwards
    • Secondary Education
  • This essay explores the nature of the curriculum content of liberal studies--a core school subject in the new senior secondary curriculum in Hong Kong--with reference to the curriculum- making processes entailed in the formation of that subject. The central thesis is that a school subject is introduced to schools and classrooms as a distinct representation of content embodied in curriculum materials, entailing a theory of content--a special way of selecting, organizing, and framing the content for social, cultural, educational, curricular, and pedagogical purposes. Knowing the content of a school subject thus entails knowing more than the content per se; it entails an understanding of the underlying theory of content, which is necessary for disclosing and realizing the educational potential embodied in the content.
    [Copyright of Journal of Curriculum Studies is the property of Routledge . Full article may be available at the publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220270902767311]
    • English
  • Journal Articles
    • 00220272
    • 13665839
  • https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/a48f2673
  • 2010-11-28

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