教統局吸收了推行質素保證視學的經驗，於03年提倡加強學校自我評估，以促進本港學校的發展和自我完善。為了支援本港小學實踐學校自我評估，香港初等教育研究學會舉辦小學學校自我評估的行動研究與分享計劃，為九所小學提供校本教師工作坊，使參與同工們明白以行動研究的態度來實踐學校自我評估。此文除整理文獻資料外，並會介紹計劃的心得，包括：學校校本自評計劃的要點、實踐自評的學校經驗和討論落實校本自評的關鍵等，以供學校同工參考如何進行學校自我評估。
The Education Commission Report No.7 states internal quality assurance should be achieved through school-based management and self-evaluation by schools. Education and Manpower Bureau has sent a Circular Memorandum to all schools on "Enhancing School Development and Accountability through School Self-evaluation on External School Review" in 2003. The Hong Kong Primary Education Research Association has carried out a project titled "Sharing and Action research on School Self evaluation in Primary School", which is funded by District Teacher Network. The project provides school-based teachers' workshops for nine participating primary schools to help teachers learn how to carry out school self-evaluation through applying the processes of action research. This article aims at sharing the experience gained from the project and suggest better ways of implementing school self-evaluation.
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在全球一體化下，各地人民要重新思考怎樣建構當地的公民教育，而在處理這課題時，了解本土青少年的看法是十分重要的。本文藉一個過千個中學生的調查結果，勾劃香港中學生在全球化環境下怎樣看待世界公民的特性、對環境課題的關注和香港的社會價值等三方面的取態。
In a globalized society, there is a need to reconstruct local civic education. But what is the youth's perception o fcivic values? This paper examines more than 1,000 secondary school pupils' perceptions of civic education in Hong Kong. The following areas are investigated: civic characteristics, environmental concerns, and the value of our society.
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公民的積極參與是現代公民發展的基本元素。九七回歸後的香港，公民發展出現新的路向，社會朝向政治整合、經濟朝向知識轉型和全球化的發展。當中，學校的民主公民教育扮演一定的角色。學校公民教育的非正規課程，能夠提供實踐性的公民參與學習。文章透過對學校學生會選舉參與活動的探討，嘗試了解學生公民學習的情況。參與性的公民學習能夠提高學生的民主參與意識和能力。但是，學校的民主公民教育需要進行革新以配合社會的未來發展。
Participatory citizenship is a recent development trend of modern citizenship. Democratic Citizenship Education (DCE) in school has an important part to play in post-1997 Hong Kong society, facing important developments of political integration, of knowledge-based economic restructuring and of globalization. The informal curriculum of school civic education helps provide practice-based learning in citizenship for students through students' association activities, which help raise their democratic awareness and related civic competencies. In addition, the DEC programme needs to be reformed to cope with future changes of the society.
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教育統籌局於2005年決定於2009年9月推行新高中學制，規定通識教育科將會成為新高中課程的核心科目，估計當新高中通識教育科全面推行時，約有三千名高中教師要轉型任教或兼教新高中通識教育科。為了了解現職中學對實踐通識教育科的看法，香港教師中心教育研究小組於05年11月展開「通識教育科的實踐與挑戰」問卷調查，一共收到207所中學1033位教師的回應；隨後研究小組成員並到4所中學與負責教師作深入訪談。此文將引用這個研究量性和質性資料，來探討在進行通識教育科時，教師在教學內容、教學法、學科評估和學校行政等四方面的挑戰。
The 334 Report (EMB, 2005) stipulated that Liberal Studies will be a core subject and assessed like other subjects in the three-year senior secondary curriculum. There will be around 3000 teachers need to change as subject teacher of Liberal Studies in 2009. In order to understand the opinion of secondary school teacher on the implementation of Liberal Studies, the Research Team of Hong Kong Teachers' Centre delivered a survey on this issue in November 2005. Base on the qualitative and quantitative data, this paper aims to discuss the challenge on the implementation of Liberal Studies in the following aspect teaching content, teaching method, assessment and school administration.
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香港和深圳教育界越來越關注生命教育，為了剖析港深兩地小學在推行生命教育的情況，兩位研究員開展了一項比較港深小學生看生命教育的問卷調查。本文根據問卷調查中千多位兩地高小學生的量性和質性資料，結合相關文獻，比較兩地學校對理解推行生命教育的異同。
Educators in both Hong Kong and Shenzhen become more and more interested in life education. In order to analyze the implementation of life education in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, the two authors used survey to compare the views on life education of Hong Kong and Shenzhen’s primary school students. Based on both quantitative and qualitative information obtained from the survey, as well as related literatures, the article reported the differences and commonalities in the understanding of the implementation of life education.
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本文剖析了香港於回歸前後國民身份教育的發展，發現因受殖民地教育影響，回歸初期進展不大，近年雖有改善，但欠一架構。筆者提出香港要再建構國民身份教育，以全球、國家和本土三個層次去推行國民身份教育。前瞻香港學校推行國民身份教育，應以加強粵港融合和情意教育為要務。
Through analyzing the development of national identity education in Hong Kong before and after Hong Kong’s return, the article reported that not much progress was made during the beginning period of Hong Kong’s return due to the colonial education’s infl uence. Although national identity education has improved in recent years, it lacks a model. The author proposes that Hong Kong needs to reconstruct its national identity education on global, national and local levels for its implementation. As for promoting national identity education in Hong Kong, schools here should emphasize on closer ties between Guangdong and Hong Kong as well as affective education as key tasks.
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背景：中層人員在學校管理與日常運作中有關鍵的角色，在教育改革的年代中，不少香港小學校長感到校內中層人員的表現和能力的重要性；有些辦學團體更舉辦了中央性培訓以提昇層下小學的中層人員。為了支援香港小學中層人員的成長，香港初等教育研究學會開展了一個校本教師培訓計劃，為八所小學中層人員提供校本的專業培訓。
目的：基於香港本土和國際的文獻，分析受訓中層人員的回饋與反思，希透過整理這些質性的資料，能結合中層人員專業發展的理論與實踐。
調查對象：八所參與校本教師培訓計劃的小學中層人員，一共有158份有效的回應問卷。
調查方法：此文章除整理中層人員發展及校本培訓的文獻外，再根據中層人員的質性回應，顯示出香港小學中層人員對專業發展的需要，關注和反省。
調查結果：問卷發現受訓中層人員對「中層人員的角色與成長」的培訓滿意度比整體評價為高。他們亦反映出要學習多些與團隊發展有關的知識和技能。同時，有些中層人員十分享受其行動學習計劃，並在分享中顯示出其在計劃過程中的成長。
總結：從八間小學中層人員的培訓個案中，發現讓中層人員對自己角色的反思，掌握發展團隊的技能和實踐行動學習等，皆能有效地促進中層人員的專業成長；而這計劃亦同時豐富了香港小學的校本教師培訓經驗及中層人員培訓的模式。
Background: A middle manager plays an essential role in the school management and daily operation. In the educational reform era, many principals aware the performance and competence of the middle managers is critical for the development of their primary schools in Hong Kong. A few of school sponsoring body provide some central training for the middle managers in their primary schools. In order to support the professional development of middle managers of primary school in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Primary Education Research Association carries out a school-based teacher development project and eight primary schools participate in this project.
Aims: Based on reviewing local and international literatures, this study investigated the feedback and reflection of trained middle manager. After analysis these data, this paper try to link up the theory and practice in the professional development of middle manager.
Sample: Questionnaires were sent to all trained middle managers in these eight primary schools, and a total of 158 questionnaires are filled.
Method: Besides literatures in middle manager professional development and school-based training, qualitative information from middle managers of these schools are used to illustrate their needs, concerns and reflections.
Result: Trained middle managers give a higher responses rate in the session: Role and development of middle managers.

背景﹕培育學生的閱讀表現是香港教育改革的一個重點，課程發展議會於2002年把「從閱讀中學習」列為課程改革的四個關鍵項目之一。經過幾年來的努力，香港學生閱讀能力在「2006年學生能力國際評估計劃」，從2003年排名第十位躍升至名列第三位；而在「2006年全球學生閱讀能力進展研究」中，香港小四學生的閱讀能力在四十五個參與地區中，從2001年排名第十四位躍升至第二位。從這兩個於零七年底公佈的學生閱讀能力國際評比的報告中，反映香港中小學生閱讀表現是有提高的。
目的﹕香港學生閱讀能力的提昇是從何而來的呢？為了進一步瞭解當中的原因，本文將借用一所小學個案去解構學校改善學生閱讀表現的歷程，並嘗試分析有效影響學生閱讀提高的校本策略。
研究對象與方法﹕一所香港小學的學生、家長和教師對學生閱讀表現的量性資料，加上對校內學生和相關教師的深入訪談和相關的校內文件，勾劃出這所學校在過去幾年在提昇學生閱讀的經驗。
結果﹕研究發現該校把建構閱讀文化列為學校發展的閱讀項目，然後透過學校自評的理念，持續監控學校在推行閱讀的情況；該校除了創造更多的閱讀環境外，更引入集中閱讀和發展性閱讀等策略，加上在全校教師參與的情況下，學校在三年間確立了學生的閱讀習慣。
總結﹕透過這個個案研究法，把一所小學提昇學生閱讀的校本經驗外顯，讓人們瞭解香港校是怎樣實踐校本課程改革，說明香港學生閱讀表現的提昇，是不少學校和教師的努力耕耘的成果。
Background: One of the theme of educational reform is to improve the reading performance of pupils in Hong Kong. The Curriculum Development Council stated "to promote a reading culture" is one of the four key tasks of school curriculum reform on 2002. After several years, Hong Kong pupils have a better result in international assessments. In the Programme for International Student Assessment(PISA), Hong Kong pupils have a clear up from 10th in 2003 to3rd in 2006, Meanwhile, Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2006 finds that Primary 4 pupils in Hong Kong come second in reading literacy among 45 participating jurisdictions, up from 14th in 2001.
Aims: To investigate the improvement of pupil's reading by a case study and analysis the school-based strategies used.
Method: Beside the quantitative and qualitative data of a primary school, focus and in-depth interviews are used to triangular the reasons of the improvement of this primary school.
Results: The improvement of pupils' reading in this school causes from several reasons. The school utilize self-evaluation concept to regulate the pupils reading, create more opportunity for pupils' to read, adopt useful reading strategies for the school development.
Conclusion: The case illuminates the process of a school to improve pupils' reading performance and gives