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: Received: 28 April 2024 / Approved: 29 April 2024 / Online: 30 April 2024 (15:13:00 CEST)
How to cite:
Hui, E. S. Y. E. East Meets the West: Influence of Chinese and the Western Values in Hong Kong New Senior Secondary Curriculum. Preprints2024, 2024041952. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.1952.v1
Hui, E. S. Y. E. East Meets the West: Influence of Chinese and the Western Values in Hong Kong New Senior Secondary Curriculum. Preprints 2024, 2024041952. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.1952.v1
Hui, E. S. Y. E. East Meets the West: Influence of Chinese and the Western Values in Hong Kong New Senior Secondary Curriculum. Preprints2024, 2024041952. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.1952.v1
APA Style
Hui, E. S. Y. E. (2024). East Meets the West: Influence of Chinese and the Western Values in Hong Kong New Senior Secondary Curriculum. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.1952.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Hui, E. S. Y. E. 2024 "East Meets the West: Influence of Chinese and the Western Values in Hong Kong New Senior Secondary Curriculum" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.1952.v1
Abstract
After the end of colonial rule in 1997, the Hong Kong education system has been experiencing a policy reform on Senior Secondary Education (NSS) Curriculum commenced in September 2009 aiming to educate students as globalized Hong Kong citizens for the Western. Although previous scholars argued that it is hard to differentiate between domestic values and the Western values in account of curriculum development (Sewpaul, 2007), this study demonstrates an analysis using the dichotomy to investigate how local curriculum, especially in the post-colonial areas, embrace both the Western values and domestic values. Using content analysis on the NSS curriculum guides, this article evaluates the influence of the Western values and Chinese values in the NSS curriculum through investigating: (1) how the Western values and Chinese values was incorporated into the curriculum throughout its development (2) why some values are more significantly highlighted in the curriculum guide. Findings include that more Chinese values are involved in the curriculum documents. This may be because of the upholding of domestic values as a post-colonial city. The Western values which are academically related are greatly incorporated into the local curriculum.
Keywords
values education; post-colonialism; new secondary school curriculum; educational reform; Hong Kong
Subject
Social Sciences, Education
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