...Transposing different issues to the area of curriculum development, this chapter draws an illuminating parallel between collaborative dialogue in the language classroom and processes of collaborative curriculum development entailing critically engaged dialogues with all participants involved...

...This chapter considers the constraints on the government's attempts to introduce a more unified curriculum in Macao's education system and analyses the implications for the economy. Casinos Economy Education Education reform Gaming industry Macao Special Administrative Region Sino Portuguese...

...This chapter identifies and analyzes the different ways in which a curriculum can be structured and organized. This involves addressing the following questions: When should the content be taught? Should it be organized around traditional academic disciplines, or around key issues or themes...

... of a modern-style education, resulting in high rates of truancy and drop-outs. What is required, they argue, is a curriculum that is “culturally sensitive, regionally relevant, and responsive to the realities of the nomadic community.” In particular, they identify the lack of sufficient vocational training...

... funded, and necessarily charged for tuition. The core content of the American educational curriculum was quite different from what was taught in China. Nevertheless, they made rapid progress in their studies. The two New England states where the CEM boys were sent were at the forefront of American...

...Curriculum planning occurs on many levels: classroom, school, district, and national. This chapter chiefly sheds light on the classroom and school level of curriculum planning. We briefly describe the five common philosophical determinants of curriculum: perennialism, idealism, realism...

...Organization is important in curriculum development because it affects the efficiency of teaching and the degree to which educational changes are brought about in learners. Curriculum organization is regarded as an attempt to overcome the confusion and fragmentation found in many instructional...

...This chapter first states that the purpose of curriculum evaluation is to improve a curriculum and measure its effectiveness in achieving its intended objectives. How these purposes will have bearing on the format and model of curriculum evaluation will be elucidated. That is, whether an objective...

...This chapter is an introduction to the book that provides an overview of the development of the Chinese History curriculum which has been so greatly influenced by social and political factors. Chinese Studies Committee culture Education Department Hong Kong Special Administrative Region HKSAR...

...This chapter explores the ways in which the subject community inherited the nature and role of Chinese History from the first phase and secured them in the school curriculum between 1974 and 1997. This analysis can help to explain how a strong subject culture was established that helped to shield...

...Hong Kong's Chinese History Curriculum from 1945: Politics and Identity investigates the ways in which Chinese history has evolved as a subject in Hong Kong secondary schools since 1945, and the various social, political and economic factors that have shaped the curriculum, through...

...This chapter examines the implications for language-education policy behind three questions concerning the English language. These include the questions about the introduction of English into school curriculums...

...This chapter analyzes several crucial worldwide trends that influence education and the school curriculum in the twenty-first century, both locally and globally: globalization, the shift to a knowledge society, the development of IT, and postmodernism. These forces articulate with one another...

...With the fundamental curriculum concepts and methods introduced in the preceding chapters, it is hoped that readers can manage to devise alternative ways to design the most appropriate curriculum for the new generations in the twenty-first century. However, unless our community moves ahead...

... Basic Law Home Ownership Scheme Li Ka Shing Tenant Purchasing Scheme Principal Officials Accountability System Advisory Inspectorate Curriculum Development Committee Curriculum Development Council depoliticised Director of Education Education Ordinance Hong Kong Examinations Authority HKEA...

... exemplars pedagogy People's Republic of China PRC The 24 Dynastic Histories Chinese History subject community core subject curriculum reform decolonisation Education Department end date identity mass education project based Social Studies Chinese History's chronological approach Chinese...

...This is an introductory chapter of the book which explains the aim and structure of the book and outlines assessment challenges that need to be tackled. This also briefly discusses the relation between assessment and teachers, learning and the curriculum. assessment emotion learning curriculum...

...This chapter familiarizes readers with the theoretical foundation of the concept of curriculum. Different curriculum conceptions and how they are applied in the construction of school curriculum are discussed. This chapter is instrumental in guiding readers to appraise how the roles of teachers...

...In this chapter, various initiatives have been proposed, including a reinforcement of the school-based curriculum policy, a global, comprehensive curriculum reform toward Learning to Learn (LTL), as well as a heightened awareness of the need to enforce multicultural education through the curriculum...

...In recent decades, global trends in cultural, social, and economic development have brought forth reforms in educational paradigms. These reforms have been accompanied by changes in the ways school practitioners or educators design the school curriculum. Compared to subject-centered approaches...