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Integrated Arts Curriculum in Hong Kong Secondary Schools
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Wong, Marina Wai-yee – Arts Education Policy Review, 2012
This longitudinal study (2001-09) of two Hong Kong secondary schools highlights six issues with an integrated arts curriculum: first, integration of knowledge and skills negatively precedes the integration of learners' construction of meaning; second, integration is perceived as challenging the profession's status; third, teachers are unaccustomed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Art Education, Integrated Curriculum, Curriculum Development
Experiencing Clay: Inquiry-Based Learning and Assessment for Learning
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Mui, Ma So – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2010
This article presents an examination of the effects of using an inquiry-based learning pedagogy to teach ceramics to pre-service teachers (my students) at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. At the beginning of the study the students were asked to conduct experiments on the properties of clay. The results indicate that half of them were able to…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
Conceptions of Art in Hong Kong Preschool Children
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Wong, Kit-mei Betty – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 2007
This paper reports part of a phenomenographic inquiry into arts education in early childhood. Research studies into how young children understand and conceive their early arts experiences are limited. In documenting children's views, this study contributes to an understanding of arts education in a preschool context, and raises possibilities for…
Descriptors: Art Education, Preschool Children, Foreign Countries, Phenomenology
Drama Education: A Touch of the Creative Mind and Communicative-Expressive Ability of Elementary School Children in Hong Kong
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Hui, Anna; Lau, Sing – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2006
This paper presents a field experiment examining the effect of drama education on the psychological development of grades 1 and 4 students. The drama curriculum was delivered after school for one day each week for 16 weeks. Students in the experimental group attended drama education classes, whereas students in the control group took part in the…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Art Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
Art Teachers and Action Research
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Mason, Rachel – Educational Action Research, 2005
The qualitative educational research literature is increasingly advocating the use of literary/artistic techniques. This article describes and evaluates educational action researches by three art teachers, and questions why they have not capitalised methodologically on their artistic expertise. Analysis of commonalities in practitioner-based…
Descriptors: Action Research, Educational Research, Art Teachers, Teacher Researchers
Educating for Creativity: Bringing the Arts and Culture into Asian Education. Report of the Asian Regional Symposia on Arts Education: Measuring the Impact of Arts in Education (Hong Kong SAR, China, January 9-11, 2004) and Transmissions and Transformations: Learning through the Arts in Asia (New Delhi, India, March 21-24, 2005)
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Meleisea, Ellie, Comp. – UNESCO Bangkok, 2005
The publication recounts two symposiums on Arts Education that took place in Hong Kong and New Delhi, India in January 2004 and March 2005 respectively. Two sections include papers covering the current situation of arts education in Asia and plans for the future. The first part has an introduction to culture and arts education in Asia, the vision…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peace, Creativity, Art Education