Curriculum Reform and Restructuring of Senior Secondary Science Education in Hong Kong: Teachers' Perceptions and Implications

Autor/inn/en	Yeung, Yau-Yuen; Lee, Yeung-Chung; Lam, Irene Chung-Man
Titel	Curriculum Reform and Restructuring of Senior Secondary Science Education in Hong Kong: Teachers' Perceptions and Implications
Quelle	In: Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 13 (2012) 2, Artikel 11 (33 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1609-4913
Schlagwörter	Curriculum Development; Foreign Countries; Educational Change; Science Teachers; Questionnaires; Interviews; Educational Attitudes; Teacher Attitudes; Performance Factors; Science Course Improvement Projects; Secondary School Science; Likert Scales; Knowledge Base for Teaching; School Restructuring; Hong Kong + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Ausland; Bildungsreform; Science; Teacher; Teachers; Science teacher; Wissenschaft; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Fragebogen; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Educational attitude; Bildungsverhalten; Erziehungseinstellung; Lehrerverhalten; Leistungsindikator; Likert-Skala; Teaching theory; Theory of teaching; Unterrichtstheorie; Schulreformplan; Schulumwandlung; Hongkong
Abstract	With the restructuring of the senior secondary education system in Hong Kong in 2009, the senior secondary curriculum was overhauled substantially by the conversion of the two-year Certificate Level and the two-year Advanced Level to a new three-year senior secondary level. This process entails changes to the contents and organization of various science subjects. This study was designed to explore, through questionnaires and interviews, the perceptions of science teachers about the design of the three science curricula, namely Physics, Chemistry, and Biology, and the challenges teachers perceived for teaching and learning these subjects in the new education context before the full implementation of the reform. The findings show that the respondents were well aware of the emphases of the new curricula. However, the respondents were likely to experience difficulty in putting rhetoric into practice due to limitations inherent to the curriculum design, increased diversity of students' ability, teachers' inertia in changing old practices, and resource constraints. (Contains 6 tables.) (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Hong Kong Institute of Education. 10 Lo Ping Road, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong. Tel: +011-852-2948-7650; Fax: +011-852-2948-7726; e-mail: apfslt@sci.ied.edu.hk; Web site: http://www.ied.edu.hk/apfslt
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10