Toward a “caring” curriculum: Promoting cultural equity in pre-service teacher education

Toward a “caring” curriculum: Promoting cultural equity in pre-service teacher education

Curriculum innovation in East Asian schools: Contexts, innovations and impacts

• Gube, Jan Christian C The Education University of Hong Kong
• Kennedy, Kerry John The Education University of Hong Kong
• Chan, Ngok Cheng The Education University of Hong Kong

• Xu, Huixuan The Education University of Hong Kong

Abingdon, Oxon

Routledge

2025

• M Teachers & Education for Teachers
  • MA Professional Education for Teachers
• N Students & Student Services
  • NO Minorities & Immigrant Students
• S School Environment & Facilities, Organization
  • SH School Culture, Teacher-Student Relations

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

The presence of non-Chinese pupils has brought to the fore a widening spectrum of learning needs in Hong Kong schools. Curriculum and teaching standards have likewise made clear the importance of creating equitable - with a view of eliminating barriers to - learning. The pathways to these equity goals from a cultural aspect, however, are unclear. This chapter aims to articulate an innovative approach to curriculum for diverse students by considering a more explicit connection between the notions of “caring” and “equity.” It will be argued that the notion of caring provides an important foundation for equity in teaching, especially in a Chinese schooling context marred by pragmatic and neoliberal conditions. These conditions, in part, underlie the integrationist orientation of curriculum responses to Hong Kong’s increasingly diverse student population. These responses often animate familiar policy and curricular rhetoric on ethnic minority learners’ early acquisition of Chinese language that can eclipse the cultivation of culturally inclusive environments. An expanded vision of equity based on caring attitudes will thus be proposed for teacher education to draw closer attention to the cultural dimensions within the curricular emphasis on learner diversity. Copyright © 2025 selection and editorial matter, Huixuan Xu; individual chapters, the contributors.

• English

Book Chapters

• 9781032499703

• 10.4324/9781003396284-16

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/b9fdba09

2025-09-10