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EPL-APCLC KT Seminar on Curriculum Reform with a School-based Approach Dr Theodore Lee, fellow of APCLC, conducted a KT Seminar on ‘Curriculum Reform with School-based Approach’ for EdUHK Faculty and students on June 14, 2016. Details of the seminar below:
About the Seminar: Curriculum reform with a school-based approach is often assumed to offer schools and teachers autonomy and flexibility, enabling them to develop a school-based curriculum and pedagogies to better fit the needs of students. Over the last decade, the Hong Kong school-based curriculum development have encountered issues worthy of worldwide concern and discussion. By reviewing experiences in HK and international evidence, this study has identified the key challenges and difficulties in school-based curriculum reform with three aspects. Intellectually, there was a lack of strong and broad shared knowledge base for curriculum development. As a result, most school-based curriculum initiatives were too piecemeal, fragmented and shallow. Structurally, many teachers wasted time ‘ reinventing the wheel’ when developing school-based curricula. This left them without sufficient time and energy to be effective in teaching. Culturally, the reliance on the school management to steer school-based reforms meant it was unable to build the new culture for teachers to make changes in their daily practices. Without cultural changes, the curriculum reforms are not sustainable and effective. This study proposes a cooperative platforms that integrates the strengths of central intelligence and school-based initiatives to maximize the support of curriculum development at teacher, school-site and system levels. |
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