Xinhua News Agency, Hong Kong, November 30. The Education Bureau of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government issued a circular letter to all primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong on the 30th, announcing the "Values Education Curriculum Framework" (Trial Version), encouraging schools to increase their efforts to cultivate students' positive values on the existing basis And attitudes, and emphasized that students’ national concepts should be strengthened from an early age.
The "Values Education Curriculum Framework" (trial version) was compiled by the Standing Committee of Values Education under the Curriculum Development Council.
A spokesperson for the Education Bureau of the Special Administrative Region Government said that cultivating students to uphold positive values and practice good life attitudes and behaviors has always been one of the important goals of the Hong Kong school curriculum.
The spokesperson introduced that the curriculum structure runs from Primary One to Secondary Six (equivalent to Senior Three in the Mainland) through all learning stages of primary and secondary schools, and uses Chinese culture as the backbone of values education.
The Education Bureau stated that the curriculum framework emphasizes that students’ national concepts should be strengthened from an early age, helping students to correctly understand national history, appreciate Chinese culture and traditional values, respect national symbols and signs (including the national flag, national emblem, and national anthem), and understand the Constitution and Hong Kong’s Basic Law. And the importance of national security, establish a national identity, and understand that as a Chinese, we have the responsibility to protect the country and share weal and woe with the country.
The compilation of the curriculum framework also focuses on cultivating students' virtues of diligence and willingness to work, strengthening life education, emphasizing the learning elements of sex education, cultivating students' media and information literacy, and strengthening anti-drug education.
The spokesperson emphasized that curriculum development is a continuous process. The curriculum framework was first implemented in a trial mode this school year. The Education Bureau will learn about the trial implementation through different platforms, and will invite some primary and secondary schools to share their experience in the implementation of the curriculum framework for future optimization. Reference to the curriculum framework for full implementation in the next school year.