Asia's High Performing Education Systems (eBook, PDF)

The Case of Hong Kong
Redaktion: Marsh, Colin; Lee, John Chi-Kin

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume represents a range of authors and specialists involved in different ways to bring about school reform in Hong Kong, covering themes such as historical policy contexts, new curriculum approaches, changing pedagogies, school leadership, implementation and change, and assessment and evaluation. This is a very topical book which provides a probing analysis of how an Asian education system has been able to reach and maintain a very high performing level.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135048754
• Artikelnr.: 41208986

Autorenporträt

Colin Marsh was an Adjunct Professor at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia. He published many books in education, including Key Concepts for Understanding Curriculum (Routledge), currently in its fourth edition. He passed away in 2012. John Chi-Kin Lee is the Vice-President (Academic) and Chair Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, the Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIEd). He has served also as Co-Director of the Centre for Small Class Teaching (CSCT) and Co-Director of Centre for Education in Environmental Sustainability (CEES) at the HKIEd. He has been awarded as Chang Jiang Chair Professor to serve at Southwest University, China. Recently, he co-edited two books, Changing Schools in an Era of Globalization (with Prof. Brian Caldwell, Routledge, 2011) and New Understandings of Teacher's Work: Emotions and Educational Change (with Prof. Chris Day, 2011).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Asia's High Performing Education System: the Case of Hong Kong Colin
Marsh and John Chi-Kin Lee Part 1: Policy Context 2. Curriculum Reforms in
Hong Kong: Historical and Changing Socio-political Contexts John Chi-Kin
Lee 3. Centralization and Decentralization: An Historical Analysis of
School-Based Curriculum Development Initiatives in Hong Kong Colin Marsh,
Pual Morris and J.T.Y. Lo Part 2: Curriculum for New Times 4. Ideology and
Priorities of School Curriculum in Hong Kong Shirley Sze-Yin Yeung 5.
"Learning to Learn" Basic Curriculum Anthony Wai-Lun Leung 6. Liberal
Studies in Hong Kong: Teachers' Space, Place and Fusion of Horizons John
Tak-Shing Lam 7. National Identity and Patriotism in Hong Kong's
Educational Reform: Student Attributes and Contested Curriculum Structures
Kerry J. Kennedy and Xiaoxue Kuang Part 3: Changing Classrooms 8. The
Impact of the Learning Study Approach on Chinese Classrooms - the Hong Kong
Experience Po-Yuk Ko 9. Small Class Teaching in Hong Kong - Seizing the
Opportunities Kwok-Chan Lai, Paul Kam-Wing Chan and John Chi-Kin Lee Part
4: School Leadership 10. Transformational School Leadership: Principals'
Strategic Vision and Teacher Development Practices James Yue-On Ko and
Allan D. Walker 11. Curriculum Leadership Developments - Lessons Learned
and Achievements Made Kwok-Tung Tsui Part 5: Curriculum Change and
Implementation 12. Initiating Change and Innovations Edmond Hau-Fai Law
13. Curriculum Reform Implementation at the Classroom Level: Impacts and
Challenges Jacqueline Kin-Sang Chan and Ping-Kwan Fok 14. Changes in
English Language Education: Ideology and Reform Strategies Alice W.K. Chow
Part 6: Assessment 15. Assessment for Learning in Hong Kong: Conceptions,
Issues and Implications Rita Berry 16. School-Based Assessment in Secondary
Schools Zi Yan 17. Accountability and Improvement: Lessons from Studying
Hong Kong Teachers' Conceptions of Assessment Sammy King-Fai Hui Part 7:
Quality Assurance and School Evaluation 18.The Role of Quality Assurance
System in the Implementation of Curriculum Reform Chi Chung Lam 19. The
Effectiveness of Quality Assurance Mechanism for School Improvement Eric
Chi-Keung Cheng and John Chi-Kin Lee 20. Curriculum and Teaching Reforms:
Challenges and Prospects John Chi-Kin Lee