Research on children’s concepts of god and spirituality and its implications on educational inequality in early childhood educational reform in Hong Kong

Research on children’s concepts of god and spirituality and its implications on educational inequality in early childhood educational reform in Hong Kong

• Lau, Grace The Hong Kong Institute of Education

International Journal of Educational Reform, 19(4), 224-246, 2010

Rowman & Littlefield Education

2010

• P 香港教育各層面與外地之比較
  • PH 少數民族的教育、種族及族群因素
• 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

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• 學前教育

In his 2006-07 Policy Address, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong committed HK$2 billion to enhancing holistic ECE through the instigation of a school voucher scheme. The new paradigm of a child-centred curriculum is considered necessary to keep pace with international quality educational developments. The paradigm of spirituality education for young children, which enshrines interconnectedness (Taggart, 2001), is in essence the holistic education that is advocated in child-centred ideology. Religious education, in contrast, is underpinned by teacher-centred ideology and has the aim of transmitting traditional religious values to the younger generation. The article reports on six case studies on three different faith schools which suggest that elements of spirituality are embedded in the newly advocated curriculum. The preliminary data collected, however, also suggest that there is a misunderstanding on the part of stakeholders in their view of the conceptualisation of Spirituality Education as nearly synonymous with Religious Education. Based on these findings, the author hopes to arouse the public at large to the potential educational inequalities existed alongside the educational reform policy; firstly to the parents when exercising their rights under the school voucher scheme and secondly, to faith schools being distracted from their school mission by a misconception that Spirituality Education and Religious Education are nearly synonymous.
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• 英文

期刊論文

• 10567879

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/tc/bibs/4367580f

2015-11-05