A healthy lifestyle determines a person's long-term health more than any other behaviour. A lifetime of health education should begin during childhood and carry on throughout adolescence. In Hong Kong, however, health education for young people in secondary schools is limited to biology and physical education lesson. As a result of less attention paid to lifestyle and health consciousness, serious health problems can ensue. This study will investigate the experience of Hong Kong young people (N=150) with regard to health education, their actual lifestyles and attempt to identify the predictors of health behaviour. The data and results obtained will be crucial for designing an effective health promotion programme for young people in the future.
健康的生活模式，比任何其他行為更能影響人的長遠健康；因此終身的健康教育，應由童年開始延伸至青年期。可是，香港中學普遍缺乏健教；只有「生物」及「體育」課是跟健教有關的。忽視生活模式及健康意識，可帶來嚴重的健康問題。本研究收集了150名香港年青人接受健康教育的經驗，以及他們的實際生活模式。研究所得資料，對將來設計一套推動青年健康教育的策略非常重要。
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雖然香港社會十分富裕，物質生活又十分充裕，但精神生活卻十分空虛。一般人都缺乏勞動而營養過多，引致身心不健康。孩子的數目也較從前少，所以孩子是父母的寶貝，大部分孩子都受父母的保護，甚至溺愛，加上社會和學校都不重視健康教育，不少研究發現香港的兒童、青少年和成年人身心靈都不健康。學校是兒童和青少年最重要和最有效的學習場所，所以學校肩負維護和增進學生身心健康的重大責任，而本文作者在其學校裏全力推動健康教育，當中包括學校政策、校舍環境、教學內容、健康服務、健康技能訓練，人際關係，校風建立，社區聯繫，學校合作等各方面。
Although Hong Kong is a wealthy society in physical terms, spiritual life seems to be hollow. Many people lack physical activities that may lead to over-nutrition and diminishing of health. Parents tend to protect or even spoil their only child. In addition, research conducted in Hong Kong concluded that health education is not considered important in schools and the society at large. Consequently, children, adolescents and adults were found at risk with regard to physical and spiritual health. Schools should be responsible for maintaining and promoting the healthy life of students, since they are the most important and efficient places for learning. In this respect, the author undertakes a concentrated effort in promoting health education in her school. Health education should include school policy, school environment, education content, health services, health skills training, interpersonal relationships, school spirit, community connections, family-school cooperation, etc.
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In 1997, the Education Department issued the Sex Education Guidelines for schools, originally with the aim to promote comprehensive sex education. Unfortunately, the Education Department did not, in practice, implement the guidelines. Two years on, sex education in schools is virtually at a stand still. This article analyzes why and the role of the Education Department in the promotion of sex education. In the millenium, there ought to be indepth sex education, which is more interactive and with a gender perspective, what this article call Gender Equality Education.
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香港小學的體育科科主任在教育及課程改革的思潮下，仍然身擔繁重的教學工作及行政職務。本文嘗試探討小學體育科科主任對領導技巧的重要性排序，從而討論小學體育科科主任應如何於教育及課程改革下，憑著其既有的專業訓練和經驗，配合教育領導技巧的理論，轉化為實用的領導技巧，接受『變』為學校的新文化。
Chairpersons of Physical Education (P.E.) Panels of Hong Kong primary schools, amid the climate of Education and Curriculum Reforms, still bear heavy workload derived from teaching and administration tasks. In this article, we would like to investigate the PE panel chairpersons' ranking of the importance of various leadership skills. A discussion of how P. E. Panel chairpersons of primary schools can mingle their received professional training and experiences with the theories of educational leadership skills, so as to transform into practical leadership skills and to accept "change" as a new school culture will also be conducted.
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運動對青少年成長有深遠的影響，香港地小人多，發展體育教育有一定困難，不過我們總需要有一個開始。筆者相信體育課程是教育下一代保持身心健康的重要資源。希望透過體育課程改革，我們可達致以下三大期望：1.體育科改革定要以學生為本，除使學生有健康的身體，也應令他們有良好的體能及肌肉協調。這樣，他們才有精神、體力自主學習，擁有積極的人生觀和正確的生活模式；2.新課程要著重透過運動培育學生的合群性及與他人合作的能力，使學生透過了解、參與、觀看體育運動，學會欣賞體育美態、體育精神、體育道德；及3.培養學生對終生運動的興趣及能力，建立學生正確的態度，經歷愉快的、多姿多彩的運動過程，從中養成持續體育運動的習慣、態度及觀念。
Physical Education plays an important role in helping the young generation maintain an active lifestyle and good health. In a densely populated city like Hong Kong, sports development and Physical Education programmes can hardly be developed without the support of schools. We believe the Physical Education Curriculum needs to be reformed to achieve the following aims: 1. Develop an active lifestyle and acquire good health, physical fitness and bodily co-ordination; 2. Promote the qualities of desirable moral behavior, cooperation in communal life, ability to make decisions, and foster an appreciation of aesthetic movement; 3. Develop motor skills and acquire the necessary knowledge and understanding in physical and sport activities for nurturing positive values and attitudes towards an active and healthy lifestyle.
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體育旨在幫助青少年建立活躍和健康的生活方式，有關如何激發運動興趣、培養體育學習內部動機顯然十分重要。本研究調查了香港20間學校共1200名中二、中四及中六學生，通過結構公式模型分析，確定「鼓勵合作」能有效提升學生的「能力感」、「自主感」和「關係感」，並進而加強其體育學習「內部動機」。
Physical education (PE) seeks to help adolescents develop an active and healthy lifestyle in which cultivation of an intrinsic interest in sport and PE learning is important. This study investigated 1200 Secondary 2, Secondary 4, and Secondary 6 students from 20 schools in Hong Kong. Structural equation modeling analysis revealed that a "cooperative learning climate" promoted perceived "competence", "autonomy", and "relatedness" that in turn enhanced "intrinsic motivation" in secondary school PE.