隨著後現代主義和資訊科技對全球的影響，香港的教育需要對應未來社會及個人的需要，而現行的小學課程存在一定的改革空間，課程發展議會 (2001)就未來十年香港學校課程發展的方向和策略，建議發展校本課程及跨領域學習以配合課改。香港小學課程統整並不是新生事物，推行課程統整將要面對的困難和挑戰實在不少，其中以「教師」、「學校」和「教育整體」的因素尤為關鍵。
From the perspective of postmodernism and advances in information andcommunication technology, education in Hong Kong needs to cater for the future of the society as well as the individuals; and there are potential capacities for the reform of currentprimary school curriculum. The Curriculum Development Council (2001) announces the approaches and strategies for curriculum reform in the coming ten years by encouraging school based curriculum development as well as integrated learning. Curriculum integration is not a 'new' issue. There are many challenges and obstacles for the implementation; and the critical factors are in relation to 'Teacher', 'School' and 'Education System'.
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在香港，學生的個別差異己是日益嚴重的教育問題，近期的課程改革正積極鼓勵學校運用課程調適的策略來解決這個問題；因此，有很多學校尤其是小學都嘗試用調適課程的方式來幫助個別差異的學生學習。由於負責調適課程的是教師，他們對以課程調適來照顧個別差異學生的觀念，足以影響學校實施課程調適的效能。透過與教師的面談，本研究試圖瞭解教師對以課程調適幫助個別差異學生學習所持著的觀點，從而提醒有心從事學校改革的校長，必先理解教師參與課程改革的心態，然後採取有效的改革策略，才能促使學校達致校本課程改革的願景。
The problem of students' individual differences has been getting worse in Hong Kong. In recent curriculum reform, schools have been encouraged to use curriculum adaptation as the strategy to deal with this problem. Thus many schools particularly primary schools have made attempts to adapt their curriculum to cater for their students' individual differences. As teachers are the ones who adapt the school curriculum, their views on using this strategy to cater for individual differences would have direct impact on the effect of curriculum implementation in schools. Through interviewing primary teachers, this study aims to understand teachers' perceptions of using curriculum adaptation as the strategy to cater for students' individual differences. The main purpose is to remind those principals and educators who would like to implement curriculum innovations including curriculum adaptation in schools, to pay special attention to teachers' views and attitudes towards the innovations and the need of identifying appropriate implementation strategies in their initiation of school-based innovative initiatives.
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本研究的目的是透過設計及實踐資訊科技教育活動，了解其教育功能。本個案研究為期一年，共有十位教師及七十五名學生參與。研究成果是三個應用資訊科技主題活動，他們是：(1)製作數碼圖書，(2)製作數碼活動記錄冊，(3)製作數碼短片分享行為表現。研究結果顯示資訊科技創造屬實的學習機會，提供豐富的教學功能及扮演授權賦能的角色。
The aim of the case study is to design thematic learning activities for understanding and analyzing roles of IT for improving Learning & Teaching (L&T) of school education. This research involved 10 teachers and 75 learners in a one-year study. Three thematic activities were designed and implemented. They were: (1) digital book production, (2) digital activity record production, and (3) digital video clip production for sharing behavior of learners. Results of the study indicated that IT could play three roles in education. They are: (1) providing authentic learning opportunities, (2) enhancing teaching capability, and (3) empowering L&T activities.
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In early childhood education (ECE), curriculum encompasses prevailing theories, approaches and models. Curriculum is planned appropriately based on the knowledge of theory and research about how children develop and learn, with special attention given to individual children's needs and interests in relation to program goals. In this paper, focusing on ECE, I discuss the underlying rationale, principles and meaning of developmentally appropriate curriculum (DAC) as developed by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) in the United States in 1987. Drawing from relevant literature, I discuss issues of relevance, and application related to DAC with specific reference to ECE experience in Hong Kong.
幼兒教育課程包括了不少流行的理論、方法與模式。適切的課程是基於幼兒理論、研究與設計，而課程目標能照顧兒童的身心發展、學習、個別需要和興趣。本文旨在探討由國際幼兒教育協會(NAEYC)所倡議的發展適切幼兒課程之理念、原則和意義。作者探用相關文獻資料，引用香港之事地實例來討論發展適切課程的相關和應用。
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本文檢視香港特區一九九七年後首十年香港的課程改革發展歷史，並從教育質素、學習機會、學習多元，以及課程是否變為中央化等多元視角，加以討論。分析結果首先肯定香港的教育質素有提升。再揭示間接或直接提供學生學習的平等機會是受到質疑，不過，香港的教育成效均等情況滿意。第三項的多元化課程發展方面，核心課程雖有收窄，但在選修科目和應用學習，以致學習的形式和方法，課程改革確是意圖給學生提供多樣的學習機遇。第四項的課程改革中央化問題上，香港是出現中央化－校本化的互動。最後，本文指出推動或實踐課改工作，要小心謹慎，要考慮承受能力。
The paper reports the curriculum reform developmental history in the Hong Kong Special Administration Region since 1997 until 2007 by the multi-perspectives of education quality, learning opportunity, learning diversity, and the centralization of curriculum reform. The paper reveals firstly affirmed Hong Kong's education quality has been improved. Secondly, it reveals a question of fair learning opportunity and the learning equality is satisfied in Hong Kong. Thirdly, for the curriculum development, it reveals the numbers of core curriculum have been limited, however, there are choices of elective subjects and apply learning as well as learning approaches and methods been introduced by the reform. The curriculum reform has the good intention in providing learning diversity and opportunity for our students.
Finally, the paper points out the curriculum reform initiation and implementation must be careful and consider theaffordability of the educators to change.
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This paper seeks to present a framework for the school curriculum in the twenty-first century. It first describes and appraises critically the Tyler rationale, which has been influential for many decades. The rationale forms the basis of the school curriculum in many eastern and western countries. Next, the concept and features of modernism which underpin the rationale are described, leading to a discussion of its major strengths and weaknesses.
The paper goes on to present an alternative view of the curriculum - Doll's Model, which better meets the challenges of the fast changing world. The model, with its prominent nature of postmodernism, is discussed. Strengths and weaknesses of the model are also analysed. The author also makes a comparison of the two models, explaining why the latter is preferable to the first in laying the foundation of school curriculum in the coming century.
In the concluding section, recent curriculum initiatives in Hong Kong are described. There is discussion on the merits and limitations of The Target Oriented Curriculum. Then the new curriculum framework and its features are described leading to discussion on the implications for the Hong Kong curriculum. It is stressed that key concepts of postmodernism need to be taken into consideration so that the quality of education can be improved.
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幼兒教育素被視為終身學習與全人發展的一個重要基礎，它的重要性亦在香港的教育改革中被認定。為了確保幼稚園的課程質素，教育局等政府部門印製了不同的文件以供老師參考，這些課程文件反映出政府對幼稚園課程的期望在這些年來是一致的。本文分為兩個部分，並嘗試從三種廣義的課程觀去分析上述文件：第一部分是以經典的泰勒式課程觀去分析；第二部分是以施瓦布的實用性課程觀去討論。最後，我們將從批判的視角出發評論這些文件。
Early childhood education has long been recognised globally and locally as significant in laying the foundations for lifelong learning and all-round personal development. The same recognition is prominent in the education reform proposals of Hong Kong. To facilitate kindergarten teachers to design quality curricula, several government bodies issued curriculum related documents to serve teachers as guidelines. A study of these government-published materials reveals a degree of consistency among them in terms of what the government expects of the kindergarten curriculum, despite the fact that their publication spans the two decades 1984 to 2006. This paper, divided into two parts, attempts to analyse the aforementioned documents from three broad, multiple curriculum perspectives. The first part will cover the categories and questions inherent in a Tylerian perspective. The second part will cover the notion of Schwab's practical perspective and associated curricular "commonplaces" (teacher, student, subject matter and milieus) (Reid, 2006), which address related pedagogical questions such as what, when, how, why, to whom, and by whom (Heydon & Wang, 2006). Finally, we shall offer some comments from critical perspectives.
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學校透過體育課培養同學對運動的興趣，同時組織多元化的運動課外活動，並建立體育運動的文化，使體育活動在校內得以普及，令同學養成運動的習慣。由於學校及家長皆重視學生的學業成績，故在校內推動體育運動有一定困難；然而，如學校能令同學透過參與體育運動改善品德及學會分配時間，同時又不受影響學業成績的話，家長亦樂意讓子女多參與體育活動。
If schools cultivate students' interest in sports through physical education lessons, organise a variety of extracurricular activities, and develop the culture of sports in order to make sports popular on campuses, then eventually students will form the habit of doing sports. Both schools and parents emphasise students' academic results; therefore, it is quite difficult to promote sports in schools. However, if we can enhance students' morals and attitudes, and improve their time-management skills through sports participation, without affecting their academic performance, then parents will be willing to let their children take part in sports.
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Based on the emerging experiences of the Committee on the Promotion of Civic Education, this paper advocates an effective model of values development for youths in their post-school stage, through encouraging companies and corporations to take on an advanced form of Corporate Social Responsibility called Corporate Citizenship that also has an internal values development role, apart from the usual external contributions role. Moral education inside and beyond schools for youth in Hong Kong is also presented as background to this development for the benefit of overseas readers.
基於香港公民教育委員會推廣公民教育與德育之經驗，本文提倡企業及公司採用一種有效的校外青少年價值觀發展模式。此模式名為「企業公民」，是「企業社會責任」的較高層次。此模式鼓勵企業及公司除慣常的對外捐助及義工服務之外，還須注意到對自身員工的價值觀培養。本文亦為外地讀者簡介香港青少年畢業前後的德育工作。
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本論文就一個學校課程統整經驗的個案提供反思的觀點，揭示行政怎樣對原來的課程統整項目造成影響和改變其本質。本文展示了由中層管理層自發性地推動的校本課程統整項目自開展以來的演變，與及其後來成為由校方統籌的綜合學習周的一部分。本文亦對參與此課程統整項目的核心老師的動機進行分析，及展示這些不同的動機如何影響這些老師的熱心及課程統整的持續發展。
This paper offers a reflective view on a case study school's curriculum integration experience. It reveals how the administration has affected the effectiveness of and brought a changing nature to the original curriculum integration project. It illustrates the evolution of a school-based curriculum project, initiated by the middle management, which is then gradually emerged into part of a central administrated interim week. This paper also analyses the different motives of key teachers in participating this curriculum integration project and shows how their different motives may have affected their sustainability and enthusiasm towards the project.
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