This paper argues that the planned introduction of visual literacy into the New Secondary School Curriculum can play a crucial role in enabling students to think critically and creatively in Hong Kong's highly visual landscape. As Hong Kong's educational system remains entrenched in long-established and conventional pedagogies, the primacy given to the written word is in sharp contrast with the pragmatic roles that visual images play in students' day-to-day life. Hong Kong is well-known for its extremely high level of Internet / broadband penetration and media saturation, yet visual literacy is still in a state of infancy in Hong Kong. Therefore, from a curricular standpoint, as Hong Kong society relies to a greater degree than ever before on visual communication strategies, it is vital that visual literacy be integrated as part of the new curriculum under the current educational reforms. As contemporary Hong Kong culture becomes increasingly dependent on the visual environment, developing visual literacy to enhance students' learning can be an important step in the future towards a more successful implementation and development of the New Secondary School Curriculum.
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香港幼兒課程與教學發展，由早期欠監管、不合乎幼兒的年齡與需要，漸改變至近年較貼合幼兒全人發展，這實有賴香港政府在不同時期的推動及業界多年來的努力。港英政府統治的一百年間，幼教機構一直是由教會、社圑及私人開辦，港英政府採取少干預政策，對早期幼教的承擔及所投放的資源實是有限。1891年歐德理(Eitel) 在其撰寫的香港教育年報(The Annual Report on Education in Hong Kong for the year 1891 )提議開辦幼兒教育，而當時倫敦殖民地辦公室的回應是：「幼兒教育是奢侈的」，由此可見一斑(Sweeting，1990，頁264)。20世紀60年代以後，因為香港社會經濟轉型，加上精英教育的開始，希望子女提早接受教育的父母日增，幼稚園和托兒所數目不斷增加，但無論在幼兒課程、教學及照顧上，政府仍沒有嚴謹監管。隨着世界幼教發展趨勢，80年代開始，政府對幼教提出政策建議，為幼兒課程發展的方向打下基礎。1997年香港政府推出新一輪教育改革，核心重點是幫助學生透過「終身學習」達至「全人發展」。幼教的方向及其重要性在21世紀的教育改革藍圖中重新被肯定及定位，提倡幼兒課程應是愉快及多姿多彩的，內容要切合幼兒的身心成長及需要(教育統籌委員會，2000)。為了提升幼教質素，特區政府在2016年施政報吿終於宣佈由2017/18學年起正式落實免費幼稚園教育政策。那麼，在頻仍的改革聲中，香港幼兒課程及教學由殖民地社會到回歸後有甚麼蜕變？發展過程中又面對甚麼問題？政府如何推動香港幼兒課程？日後有怎樣的發展趨勢？以上的問題將會在本章內加以討論。

Preschool teachers are an important element of high-quality, developmentally and multiculturally appropriate early childhood programmes. 7.5% of the total 160,000 children enrolled in Hong Kong kindergartens are ethnic-minority students and they are neglected in the Hong Kong education system until 2008. This study investigated the perceptions of teaching competency in multicultural classrooms held by 347 teachers at 22 kindergartens in Hong Kong. The study aims at (a) using Confirmatory Factor Analysis to validate the factor structure of the multicultural meaching competency scale (MTCS) among preschool teachers, (b) assessing the model difference of MTCS between teachers with and without multicultural training, and (c) informing the practice of multicultural teaching in early childhood education. The results indicated that a tripartite model in which the MTCS assessed skills, knowledge, and relationships obtained a statistical fit to a Hong Kong preschool sample, as in earlier research on a primary school sample in Hong Kong.
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香港於 2009 年實施高中新學制，由過往的三二二制改為三三制。同時，將免費教育延伸到高中。因此，高中變成普及教育的階段之一。絕大部分適齡學生均會修讀高中，造成了學生間的差異增大。同時，伴隨新高中學制的改變是 2001 年學校課程改革的深化，學會學習、終身學習、兩文三語等目標要在新高中強化。加上新高中學生要兼通文理，新高中的目標是高遠。 為了達到這些目標，新高中課程的結構與過往的科目結構有明顯的不同。其中，重要一環就是引入通識教育科為必修學科。另外，每一學科均加入選修環節及校本評價，又引入應用學習及其他學習經驗。這些改革的野心是否過大呢？他們能否真正的發揮功能呢？

宗教建築作為信徒聚集和舉行宗教活動的場所，不單是一個能讓人體驗和感受與日常生活不同氛圍的空間，同時亦因其建築風格、藝術特色，乃至建築和信徒群體的關係等，承載著群體和先賢的信仰和生命故事。因此，通過學習宗教建築能成為宗教教育的重要教學策略，促進學生提升靈性，並加深瞭解和認同天主教信仰種種生命故事中的價值觀。本文便以香港教育學院宗教教育與心靈教育中心和嘉諾撒聖心學校推行「宗教建築：生命的標誌」協作計劃為個案，探討如何以實地考察結合劇場和圖像等多種方式，讓宗教建築學習成為具創意和有效的學習經歷，幫助學生培養天主教價值觀。而學生的回饋既指出這一學習的成效，亦顯示宗教建築學習值得進一步推動和發展為校本經驗。

Hong Kong has been considered as one of the world’s best performing school systems. Among the six factors attributing to the success of the educational system, three are related to decentralization of pedagogical decision-making and empowerment of school leadership and teachers. Teachers’ voices and their wisdom in decision-making processes in schools has become a prominent topic among policy makers and educators. In the last 40 years, international literature suggests that teacher leadership practices in school-based curriculum development (SBCD) as a form of school capacity building enhances teachers’ empowerment and their professional capabilities, which in turn may result in more effective student learning. This chapter reports a portion of the findings based on the interview data of a case study of school-based curriculum leadership in an elementary school in Hong Kong in 2007. The study adopted a design-based approach. Participating teachers engaged in cycles of planning the objectives of learning, experimenting on redesigning the lesson plans, and reflecting on practice lessons. Multiple data collection methods were adopted. Our findings show that a systematic approach in organizing curriculum development activities based on problem-solving approaches and a distributed leadership style among teachers can be effective in enhancing teacher learning in both curriculum leadership skills and powerful learning.