This article discusses how a newly established senior secondary school in Hong Kong tried to actively engage students in the school decision-making process. It first explains how democratization could come about, the actual measures adopted, and the initial success achieved. Then the article proceeds to explain how challenges, such as conflicting interests of the students and tension between students and the administration, surfaced when the school became more established, grew in size, took in more students, moved into a bigger campus, and subsequently needed to face the public examinations. In conclusion, the article discusses changes in school governance that could be helpful in meeting the challenges. Institutionalising student participation, such as forming a student council, is discussed together with other useful changes. It is hoped that this article can be useful to people interested in the democratization of school governance, and the impact on school democratization of such factors as institutionalisation and increasing school size.
[Copyright © 2010 Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration & Management (CCEAM).]

The view that autonomy is a multidimensional construct which may change depending on contexts and time calls for more empirical studies to understand its long term development across contexts (Benson, 2001, 2007). This paper presents the results of a longitudinal study documenting the autonomous development of four student-teachers' long journey of learning English and learning to teach English as a foreign language in Hong Kong. Data collected from lesson observations, reflective journals, informal chats, portfolios and semi-structured interviews were analysed. A theoretical model of studentteachers' autonomous development was suggested. Implications were also made for teacher educators who are promoting teacher autonomy in their student-teachers. First of all, as learner autonomy and teacher autonomy are interdependent, teacher education programs should incorporate practices that promote autonomy in the learners. Secondly, as contextual factors are important in facilitating the success of field experience, collaborative forms of institute-school partnership should be established because it helps set a platform where various parties have clearly defined roles and responsibilities in structuring challenge and support to meet student-teachers' needs. In conclusion, if teacher autonomy is seen as a desirable goal to be achieved, student-teachers should be provided certain kinds of support in order to succeed.

學校文化，簡而言之，是指學校的信念、價值觀、辦事的方式和同事間相處的形態。校長作為領導，自然有需要掌握或營造有利於教學素質提升的學校文化。學校文化的塑造，除關乎學校本身之外，外在的環境和教育政策對學校文化的建立也很重要，本文藉介紹香港學校文化與校長角色的互動和轉變，希望加深翁源縣校長對領導和學校文化的掌握和了解。
[Copyright © 2009 翁源縣科技教育局.]

Primary school pupils’ attributions of academic success are presented in this study. The sample for the study comprised 1154 Year-3 and Year-5 pupils from ten primary schools in Hong Kong. Pupils’ academic attributions were measured by a 16-item Academic Attribution Scale. Pupils indicated the extent to which they attributed their performance at examinations, tests, homework assignments, and class work to luck, ability, effort and use of strategy, on the scale. It was found that girls tended to have healthier attributions than boys did. Girls attributed significantly more to strategy use and effort than boys did. Boys attributed performance to luck significantly more than girls did. Multilevel analysis showed that there was significant school-level and class-level variance for attributional beliefs. Nevertheless, most of the higher level variances of attributional beliefs occurred at the class-level rather than at school level. Implications for teaching and learning are discussed in the article.
[Copyright © 2006 The Hong Kong Institute of Education.]

This paper looks at the need for a comparative cross-cultural view of leadership in Hong Kong schools.

每一所學校創立目的各異。有的學校負有單一教育下一代，為國家培育年幼一代，或是具有示範、輔導及研究發展之功能與任務等。每一所學校都需要涵孕出以自己特有的校風，同時需要在各項教育設施和經營上作出配合，才可以成功發展，成為具有與眾不同符特色。本文是作者在參與籌辦學校過程中，針對學校課程組織和設計，設計者所應作的準備、校舍設立及校園布局等工作的反思文章。文章目標一把從美國、內地和台灣等地搜集所得的實驗、附實學校等，所採用課程及學校布局等等相關文獻進行分析，並作綜合報告；目標二是探討學校在發展過程中，預期遇上的挑戰，我們可以如何運用學校文化範式為對策；目標三是從教育教育機構中的一員的身分和角度，與參與者分享及收集教育同工對具有實驗小學的學校課程，所引發的期望和意見。