By reviewing the development of the public examination syllabuses of two religious subjects in Hong Kong, the author traces an increasing emphasis on the study of personal and social issues, which reaches a new level of development in the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (HKDSE) Ethics and Religious Studies. With reference to moral and civic education, the author also discusses the possible advancements and challenges that might merge with the implementation of the HKDSE subject.
作者回顧兩個宗教科目在香港的公開考試課程上的發展，指出課程愈來愈重視研習個人及社會問題，而且在香港中學文憑的倫理與宗教科中發展至新一個層次。就道德與公民教育方面，作者亦討論了香港中學文憑倫理與宗教科的實施可能會有的機遇及挑戰。
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香港和深圳教育界越來越關注生命教育，為了剖析港深兩地小學在推行生命教育的情況，兩位研究員開展了一項比較港深小學生看生命教育的問卷調查。本文根據問卷調查中千多位兩地高小學生的量性和質性資料，結合相關文獻，比較兩地學校對理解推行生命教育的異同。
Educators in both Hong Kong and Shenzhen become more and more interested in life education. In order to analyze the implementation of life education in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, the two authors used survey to compare the views on life education of Hong Kong and Shenzhen’s primary school students. Based on both quantitative and qualitative information obtained from the survey, as well as related literatures, the article reported the differences and commonalities in the understanding of the implementation of life education.
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The present study aims at further examining an interesting finding of a recent empirical research on Hong Kong adults' participation in African drumming from a sociological perspective by adopting some Bourdieuan concepts. Results of the semi-structured interviews with 82 informants with diverse musical backgrounds and occupations concur that African drumming was hardly evident in Hong Kong before 1991, but related learning programmes have burgeoned in recent years. This study finds that the rise of African drumming among adult music learners over the past two decades in Hong Kong where the African residents only amount to a very small proportion (less than 0.3%) of the total population is the consequence of the two-phase habituation of a receptive attitude towards the ethnic musical tradition. The new habitus has been gradually formulated by highly acknowledged individual and group, first in the field of professional education of percussionists and later in the field of community music, where the cultural capital of African drumming has been increasingly convertible into symbolic capital and economic returns.
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近年香港特別行政區政府關注文物保育，學校推行文物保育教育之趨勢有增無減，並以校本學習活動為主要形態。學校文物保育教育，現階段是一項有待開發的重要項目，值得教育工作者加以討論。本文嘗試探討文物保育教育與公民教育配合的意義，並反思文物保育教育於學校教育中可以發展的理念層面及其相關的落實策略。
Since the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has been paying more attention on heritage conservation in recent years, there is a trend of developing heritage conservation education among schools in Hong Kong with the main form of its implementation as school-based learning activities. As an important area of education to be explored and utilized, heritage conservation education deserves the discussion among education practitioners. This article aims at exploring the relationship of heritage conservation education and civic education, and examining the framework and the related strategies of the implementation of heritage conservation education in school education.
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德育及公民教育是2001年香港課程改革中四個關鍵項目之一，學校推行德育及公民教育是否成功，對學生的身心發展，以至社會的整體安定繁榮也有著密不可分的關係。政府於2001年就四個學習階段訂下德育及公民教育的課程框架，並在2008年作出修訂。本文以課程決定為討論的切人點，嘗試從內在及外在情景的視角，引用不同學者提出的相關理論作初步探討，並提出對香港德育及公民教育發展的個人觀點。
The Moral and Civic Education is one of four key tasks in the Hong Kong curriculum reform 2001. Whether the implementation of school moral and civic education is successful or not, it will impact the development of the student's body and mind, and even the stability and prosperity of the society as a whole. The government subscribed the moral and civic education curriculum framework in 2001 on four learning phases, and made the revision in 2008. This article attempts to explore the issue in view of curriculum decision making and from internal and external context perspectives together with related theories. Author’s point of view on the future development of Hong Kong moral and civic education will also be made.
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本文剖析了香港於回歸前後國民身份教育的發展，發現因受殖民地教育影響，回歸初期進展不大，近年雖有改善，但欠一架構。筆者提出香港要再建構國民身份教育，以全球、國家和本土三個層次去推行國民身份教育。前瞻香港學校推行國民身份教育，應以加強粵港融合和情意教育為要務。
Through analyzing the development of national identity education in Hong Kong before and after Hong Kong’s return, the article reported that not much progress was made during the beginning period of Hong Kong’s return due to the colonial education’s infl uence. Although national identity education has improved in recent years, it lacks a model. The author proposes that Hong Kong needs to reconstruct its national identity education on global, national and local levels for its implementation. As for promoting national identity education in Hong Kong, schools here should emphasize on closer ties between Guangdong and Hong Kong as well as affective education as key tasks.
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本文是作者與一位小學教師為學生設計角色扮演的經驗分享。教師在小學中國語文課堂中設計角色扮演活動，加入教育戲劇元素「定格」和「思路追蹤」確能增加學生參與的機會。學生又能設身處地，以多角度思考問題，發展他們的批判能力；同時他們能愉快和投入地學習。個案試行效果不錯，但其設計仍有可進一步優化之處。
This is an experience sharing of the design of a role-play in the Chinese language classroom by the author and a primary Chinese language teacher, using the elements of the drama: Still Image and Thought Tracking. Findings indicate that students have more chances to participate in activities, think in different perspectives of the questions and this helps them to develop their critical thinking. They learn happily and devotedly. The result is quite encouraging. However, there is still room for improvement on the design of the activities.
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This paper explores the construction of local and national identities among secondary school students in post-colonial Hong Kong. As a Chinese society that has undergone a prolonged period of British colonial rule, the reunification of capitalist Hong Kong with the motherland under socialism in 1997 has set the context for a negotiation of identities. It has been revealed that the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has tried to foster a stronger sense of national identity and a sense of belonging among the younger generations through its education reform measures in the new millennium. Nation-building is part and parcel of the reform, although it is being interpreted and implemented diversely by local officials, school principals and teachers. The intersecting and overlapping nature of students' different identities has set the parameters of their identity formation but allows different latitudes of observance and/or choice of different identities.
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