踏入新世紀，香港中國語文課程進行了重要改革，其中一個改革重點是加強文學學習，但是在過去語文和文學分家的課程規劃下，已經熟習語文教學的教師不期然對文學教學產生「教甚麼、怎麼教」的疑惑。怎麼教小學生讀詩？小學生在欣賞詩、寫詩的能力嗎？這些疑慮都需要通過實踐經驗才可以獲得釋放。 本論文主要報告一個在小學三年級和五年級進行的兒童詩讀寫教學試驗。教學試驗在二零零三年六月前完成，採用質性分析方法來分析六個學生的學習個案，從中探討教學試驗的成效。個案分析結果顯示了學生經過詩歌學習活動後，對詩歌保持或產生正面的鹿度，能領悟詩的特質，開始發展對詩的意識，賞讀詩歌的能力在加強，並能從讀詩的活動中領略寫詩的技巧，能用形象的手法來寫個人對身邊人或物的感受。教師和學生的訪談更指出試驗的教學模式發揮了以下的成效：學生喜歡用通過試教的模式來學習，對讀詩寫詩的興趣濃厚；部分學生寫詩比寫文好；程度差的學生從讀詩寫詩獲得成功感；個別家長表示支持；教師對語文教學有更新的體會。

Environmental education has been widely promoted in Hong Kong schools since the 1990s. Teachers have a crucial role in educating students to be well-informed, environmentally aware and responsible green citizens. The environmental literacy and tendencies of teachers are seen as having far-reaching influences on the development of environmental education in Hong Kong. This paper aims to elucidate teachers' competence in implementing environmental education in schools through their narrative dialogues regarding their engagement in classroom practice and thinking about environmental education. The teachers were selected from a pool of teacher respondents categorised according to their scores for environmental knowledge, attitude and behaviour in a territory-wide survey of Hong Kong primary school teachers. Follow-up interviews with three teachers of varying levels were conducted to explicate their personal stories, focusing on how the teachers' knowledge-attitude-behaviour associations influence their implementation of environmental education in schools. The teachers' experiences and perspectives behind their stories provide crucial, specific baseline information, informing the development of more relevant teacher education programs in environmental education, and subsequently, enhancing environmental education in schools.
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Exploring teachers' attitudes towards research is always interesting. Following the decision of the Education and Manpower Bureau to create a position of Primary School Master/Mistress (Curriculum Development) (PSM(CD)) in Hong Kong primary schools, it becomes significant to understand and beliefs which these curriculum leaders hold with respect to action research - as a means to help schools to reflect upon their strengths and to decide how best to bring about reform in curriculum. A survey of 209 PSM(CD)s suggested that in general they favoured using research in their work. A four-factor model indicated that the majority of the respondents perceived themselves as having the ability to do research, valued research for professional development and providing solutions to teaching and learning deficiencies, and found the action research course useful. The survey results showed that demonstrated research experience and holding higher degree qualification had no significant impact on attitudes to action research, but that those attitudes were associated positively with the participants' sense of self-efficacy, an internal locus of control and their commitment to their school. The work will contribute to gaining an understanding of how curriculum leaders' participation in school-based curriculum research and development can be facilitated.
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