非殖民地化和回歸中國的政治變遷為本港的公民教育帶來新挑戰。可是八十年代以來的公民教育運動卻未能為本港學生的「公民角色」和1997年以後的政治變化作好準備。本文檢討近年公民教育計劃的目標、內容和正規和非正規課推行情況，並質疑其對本地學生在學習社會政治取向的效果。最後討論有關日後本地學校公民教育計劃措施和策略的一些重要課題。
The political changes of decolonization and reintegration with mainland China pose new challenges of civic education for Hong Kong schools, but the civic education movement in the mid-1980s onwards was problematic to fulfil the mission of preparing Hong Kong students for citizenship and the political change after 1997. This paper evaluates the recent objectives, contents and implementation of civic education in the formal and informal curriculums; and questions their impacts on local students' learning of social-political orientation. Finally, this paper discusses important issues concerning the strategies and policies of future civic education programmes in local schools.
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此文從課外活動的架構、開設、項目、性質、組織、成員及學生參與等方面來探討藉課外活動推動公民教育的情況，結論指出現況實未許樂觀。文章進一步提出今後可考慮的策略、措施及研究課題。