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Diligence listed as priority attitude under new values education curriculum
Diligence has been listed as one of the prioritized values and attitudes for students in the pilot version of the values education curriculum framework that all primary and secondary schools received yesterday.
The framework was prepared by the Standing Committee on Values Education under the Curriculum Development Council of the Education Bureau.
A spokesman of the bureau said this is in response to the recommendation made by the Task Force on Review of School Curriculum in September 2020.
“Building on the features and needs in students' stages of development, the framework lists the learning expectations on their attitudes and behaviors in different domains (e.g. personal, family, community, national and global domains),” the spokesman said, adding that the framework links the four key learning stages from Primary One to Secondary Six.
He also said that Chinese culture has been adopted as the backbone to provide schools with a comprehensive and systematic framework to promote values education.
Under the framework, the bureau has included “diligence” as a priority value and attitude alongside the existing nine priority values and attitudes -- perseverance, respect for others, responsibility, national identity, commitment, integrity, care for others, law-abidingness and empathy.
This is said to better equip students with virtues that will allow them to contribute to their families, society and the nation.
The curriculum will emphasize the need of nurturing a sense of belonging towards the country from an early age to help students correctly understand Chinese history and appreciate Chinese culture and traditional values.
Schoolchildren should also learn to respect the national symbols and signs, including the national flag, the national emblem and the national anthem, and understand the importance of the Constitution, the Basic Law and national security.
These are to help students to cultivate a sense of national identity among students and help them understand their responsibility, as a Chinese, to protect their family and the country and to share joys and sorrows.
Media and information literacy, as well as life, sex and anti-drug education will also be highlighted under the pilot framework.
Schools will be provided with resources including curriculum planning tools and learning and teaching resources, such as lesson plans, animations for values education, comics for moral education and examples of learning and teaching.
Briefing sessions will also be organized to introduce the contents of the curriculum framework to primary and secondary schools.
The bureau’s spokesman said the framework is launched on a trial basis for the current school year, and full implementation is expected in the next school year after listening to primary and secondary schools’ experience and reflection.
A spokesman of the bureau said this is in response to the recommendation made by the Task Force on Review of School Curriculum in September 2020.
“Building on the features and needs in students' stages of development, the framework lists the learning expectations on their attitudes and behaviors in different domains (e.g. personal, family, community, national and global domains),” the spokesman said, adding that the framework links the four key learning stages from Primary One to Secondary Six.
He also said that Chinese culture has been adopted as the backbone to provide schools with a comprehensive and systematic framework to promote values education.
Under the framework, the bureau has included “diligence” as a priority value and attitude alongside the existing nine priority values and attitudes -- perseverance, respect for others, responsibility, national identity, commitment, integrity, care for others, law-abidingness and empathy.
This is said to better equip students with virtues that will allow them to contribute to their families, society and the nation.
The curriculum will emphasize the need of nurturing a sense of belonging towards the country from an early age to help students correctly understand Chinese history and appreciate Chinese culture and traditional values.
Schoolchildren should also learn to respect the national symbols and signs, including the national flag, the national emblem and the national anthem, and understand the importance of the Constitution, the Basic Law and national security.
These are to help students to cultivate a sense of national identity among students and help them understand their responsibility, as a Chinese, to protect their family and the country and to share joys and sorrows.
Media and information literacy, as well as life, sex and anti-drug education will also be highlighted under the pilot framework.
Schools will be provided with resources including curriculum planning tools and learning and teaching resources, such as lesson plans, animations for values education, comics for moral education and examples of learning and teaching.
Briefing sessions will also be organized to introduce the contents of the curriculum framework to primary and secondary schools.
The bureau’s spokesman said the framework is launched on a trial basis for the current school year, and full implementation is expected in the next school year after listening to primary and secondary schools’ experience and reflection.
