Proposed changes in the senior secondary curriculum in English language in Hong Kong: Perceptions of school principals and teachers

Proposed changes in the senior secondary curriculum in English language in Hong Kong: Perceptions of school principals and teachers

• Li, Ka Wo Benjamin The Hong Kong Institute of Education

The Journal of Asia TEFL, 6(3), 73-108, 2009

2009

• G 課程與教學:個別教學範疇
  • GB 英文
    • GBA 教學目標、課程及評鑑
• R 教育政策與管理
  • RH 校監、校長及管理人員、校長會
• M 教師與教師教育
  • MG 教育工作人員之身份認同、態度與意見

Qualitative Case Studies Secondary Schools Curriculum Development English Language Key Learning Area

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• 中學教育

This paper reports on the assessment of readiness and receptivity of school principals, English panel chairpersons and English teachers for the implementation of the new senior secondary curriculum (NSSC) in English Key Learning Area (KLA) in Hong Kong. Recent research ahs probed into the dilemmas and challenges faced by school administrators and frontline teachers when facing curriculum change. Such challenges exist in the management of change, the teachers’ readiness for change, and in problems with collaboration among the stakeholders. Drawing on these research findings the analysis of this paper focuses on whether such problems are also re-occurring in the implementation of change in the NSSC, and if so, considers how they can be resolved. Using qualitative research procedures four key questions were addressed: how far the school personnel understood the changes in the NSSC; the extent to which they felt they could implement the new curriculum; which factors encouraged/constrained implementation; and the possible effects of change on schools. The findings showed that schools with students of high or medium ability seemed to be more positive in terms of perceptions and receptivity at the initial stage of change, while schools dominated by cohorts of medium or low academic ability students appeared to be resistant to the shift in pedagogic arrangements. Yet all the school principals interviewed expressed their unreserved agreement with the spirit of the new curriculum.
[Copyright © 2009 The Asian Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language.]

• 英文

期刊論文

• 17383102

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/tc/bibs/528e3f36

2015-11-05