Project Details

a. Project goals

1. to provide teachers with values, knowledge and teaching strategies and skills pertaining to the “One Country, Two Systems”, the Basic Law, the law, the legal process, the legal system and the fundamental principles that enshrined in the Basic Law, in particular, stability, prosperity, high degree of SAR autonomy, the rule of law and human rights;

2. to develop a systematic instrument for the continuous assessment of teachers' and students' knowledge of and attitudes towards Basic Law, rule of law and human rights ; and

3. to help schools monitor and enhance their human rights friendly environment.

b. Project details

This proposed project will contain four parts, namely Part 1: School-based teacher training programs, Part 2: School-based curriculum development, Part 3: Web-based Resource Centre for Basic Law, HK legal system, rule of law and human rights teaching and learning and Part 4: survey on the awareness of the Basic Law, Rule of Law and Human Rights of HK teachers for the construction of base lines for continuous measurement, and the development of an instrument list for self-evaluation of human rights-friendly school environment. These four parts are complementary to each other and are highly integrated. Action research will be used to evaluate the problems, needs and effectiveness of the project.

Part 1: School-based teacher training programs

This proposed project, where a school-based approach will be employed, will begin with teacher training programs.

Pre-training school needs assessment
Training Workshop

Part 2: School-based curriculum development

The specific objectives of this curriculum development include:

To make teachers familiarize with using real life events approach;
To develop teachers' skill in designing school-based curriculum teaching materials;

Part 3: Web-based Resource Centre for Basic Law, rule of law and human rights

A web-based resource centre is significant in the way that:

Useful resource can be obtained by teachers at any time;
Teaching materials produced can be publicized; and
Exchange of ideas between schools can be achieved.

Part 4: survey on the awareness of the Basic Law, Rule of Law and Human Rights of HK teachers for the construction of base lines for continuous measurement, and the development of an instrument list for self-evaluation of human rights-friendly school environment.

To make the research sustainable for the future studies, this proposed project plans to conduct a general survey to assess the above mentioned for the construction of baseline for further measurements. The questionnaire used as instrument for measurement will be established and validated using Rasch Model. The project team will work out with participating schools a checklist as indicator of human rights-friendly environment by interviews, class observations and surveys.