Music education and the review of early childhood education in Hong Kong: Professional development needs of early childhood teachers.

Music education and the review of early childhood education in Hong Kong: Professional development needs of early childhood teachers.

• Chan, C. W. Winsor
• Leong, Samuel

Asia-Pacific Journal for Arts Education, 5(2), 3-26, 2007

The Hong Kong Institute of Education

2007

• G 課程與教學:個別教學範疇
  • GF 人文學科及藝術
• Q 教育體系與各級學校
  • QB 小學前之教育、育兒設施、母嬰保健設施
• M 教師與教師教育
  • MA 教師之專業教育

Teacher Education and Professional Development Teacher Education

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• 學前教育

Following the education reform in 2001, the Education Bureau (EDB) in Hong Kong initiated a review of early childhood education (ECE) in 2006. The main focus of this review is the quality assurance mechanism for ECE, including the training of teachers, teaching quality, the potential pressures on teachers to upgrade their qualifications etc. This review is supported by the Chief Executive’s Policy Address (2006), which outlines concrete ways to achieve the targeted goals. This paper compares the provision of music training at four major ECE professional teacher-training institutions and examines the perspectives of in-service teachers, principals and early childhood education lecturers on the music training of ECE teachers. Using focus group interviews and survey, in-service ECE teachers expressed their general satisfaction with their pre-service training in music teaching. However, they did not feel prepared and confident enough to teach music in their schools compared to other subjects. They suggested aspects of pre-service training which would have better prepared teachers to teach music and identified three areas of professional development needs of ECE teachers in music teaching. A practical framework of professional development is also presented.
[Copyright © 2007 The Hong Kong Institute of Education.]

• 英文

期刊論文

• 16836995

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2015-03-26