「繪本融合習式方法」為香港幼兒教育日漸普及的一種教育戲劇的教學方式。本文根據讀者回應理論，建立「創意空隙」（creative gaps）的概念框架，提出六種不同面向及程度的創意空隙，以評估教學案中能給予幼兒重新想像、探索和重述故事的機會與可能性。作者提出，教師在設計教案時，應發掘繪本的創意空隙，以選配和編排適當的戲劇習式。本文藉研究幼兒教師與戲劇導師共同設計的20個教案，探討這模式在香港的實踐狀況。結果顯示，教學設計雖未能完全擺脫文本的束縛以開放地讓幼兒參與，但當中的創意空隙能引導幼兒進行多方面故事探索和重新想像。不過，以現實生活經驗來重創故事，討論當中的品德情意與社會議題的表現，卻未見顯著。本研究建議師資訓練多強調有關繪本和創意空隙的分析與應用的知識和技巧。The use of Conventions Approach with picture books has become a popular teaching mode of Drama-in-Education in the early childhood education in Hong Kong. Drawing on the reader-response theories, the author constructs a conceptual framework called ＂creative gaps.＂ This framework includes six aspects and gradations of creative gaps which aims to evaluate the opportunities and possibilities given to children to re-imagine, explore and retell the story in a drama lesson. The author argues that teachers should identify the creative gaps of the picture book when assigning and arranging appropriate drama conventions to teach. Through analyzing 20 teaching plans co-written by preschool teachers and drama artists, the author examines the practice of this drama teaching approach collected from eight preschools in Hong Kong. The results reveal that although the teachers could not totally break through the confinement of the original text for open participation, the creative gaps identified in their teaching plans could support young children to re-imagine and explore the story in various ways. Still, attempts were made to facilitate the children to re-create the story through everyday experiences and to discuss the social and moral messages in the story. In the end, the author suggests that teacher training should put more emphasis on the knowledge and skills about analyzing and applying picture books and creative gaps. Copyright © 2017 Author.

Early childhood education in Hong Kong has experienced drastic changes since 1982 following the criticism made by the Llewellyn visiting panel and a western style play-based curriculum was recommended. The Curriculum Development Council in 2006 stated that curriculum development is a continuing process of renewals that should devetail with the development of education system globally. The curriculum renewal, however, has been based on continuous fostering the play-based approach of the 1980s, despite that in the Western world, there have been calls for a reversion to the traditional teacher-centered education paradigm in recent years. Is there a double standard in designing curriculum in this respect? Copyright © 2018 CESHK.

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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世界各國學者的理念或理論基礎對幼兒教育存在著不同的影響，而香港幼兒教育課程近年不斷進行課程改革、質素保證監管，不同的幼教課程模式過往均曾應用於本地的學前教育機構，如主題教學、方案教學或高廣度課程模式，就此，本文從文獻資料瞭解源自德國發展的華德福幼教課程模式，藉此作為課程發展的参考。

本文闡述香港時下的幼兒教育所推行的兩種隸屬南轅北轍哲理的品德教育及其推行目的。香港自 2006 年推行教育改革以來，便以統整、非正規形式的品德教育配合以兒童為中心的課程而行。這種品德教育模式源於十六世紀往後的西方社會，它強調人際關係 道德的感覺、心理的需要、對道德的判斷及公民主義等﹔有別於這種教養孩童的品德教育模式，是東方社會建基於孔子及/或基督宗教的品德教育。本文會透過所搜集到的事例介紹本地幼教老師在推行品德教育時，如何將東方的哲理價值觀混入西方的理念而衍生在幼兒品德學習上的果效。