published_or_final_version / Education / Master / Master of Education

published_or_final_version / Education / Master / Master of Science in Information Technology in Education

This paper reports a case study conducted at a local Government-aided primary school in Hong Kong to explore the teaching and learning of three students with special educational needs (SEN). The research aims to investigate the perceptions of the principal, teachers, social workers, students and parents on inclusive education, and look at the practicability and feasibility of the school inclusive policy. Results indicated that although the school embraces the inclusive ideology in principle, the interviewees expressed serious reservation on the Government promoted whole school integration approach to include all students with special educational needs. The study on one hand examined the government and school policy and practice on inclusion, and on the other hand identified the difficulties and obstacles encountered by the school, some of which were regarded as fundamental problems that require changes in the educational system. The paper ends with recommendations for further research that is worth exploring in order to achieve a true and effective inclusive educational system in the Hong Kong landscape. Research methodology is qualitative. Interviews were conducted with a number of school staff and two parents of the SEN students. The interviews focused on how school key personnel and teachers viewed their roles, contributions, and difficulties in implementing inclusive education, and how parents view the studies and growth of their children at the case school. A 10-week observations aimed at observing how the three students under the case study adapted, learnt and grew in a mainstream school environment. Through inductive reasoning, data collected was subsequently grouped into patterns and regularities. There are two recurrent themes brought up at the study. First, the success of inclusive education rests largely and predominately on the ‘heart and soul’ – the attitudes and values of the teachers in educating the SEN students; and second, the school does not have the right conditions, in particular, sufficient resources to provide a true inclusive environment for the SEN students with intensive support needs, where the system must change to adapt to the children’s needs and not the vice versa. The general conclusion developed is that the case school, in face of the increasing number of SEN students, is forced to do more with less under the current government inclusive policy; and the SEN students themselves are forced to squeeze in the shoes of the regular students in a mainstream school. Without a system change, there is only partial inclusion at the mainstream school, and the SEN students must adapt to the regular classroom mode and curriculum, or fail. / published_or_final_version / Education / Master / Master of Education

published_or_final_version / Education / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

This research evaluates government education and health spending in China and explores the underlying determinants of its spatial pattern. A framework defining local needs at three levels is proposed to analyze whether the expenditure has been reasonably allocated. Results show that both government education and health spending closely respond to local needs at the general level. The illiteracy rate is positively correlated with government education spending while the life expectancy is negatively correlated with government health spending. On the demand and supply sides, while government education spending is more responsive to local demand measured by student number, the needs from the supply side represented by the number of medical personnel appear to be more relevant when governments distribute resources into the health sector. One particular area that needs more effort is the responsiveness to the needs arising from the lack of teaching staff. The student-teaching ratio is now largely ignored when governments make decisions of education outlays. Given that the adequacy of teaching staff is a must to ensure the quality of teaching, governments are thus suggested to put more weights to this aspect in its decision-making process. As for the determinants of government education and health spending, this study takes a close look at three groups of key potential explaining factors identified in the existing literature – economic development, openness and decentralization. The findings pose challenges to the existing mainstream theories developed in the western context. Only per capita gross regional product is found to have significant explanatory power for budgetary expenditure on education and a significant negative relationship is revealed. On the other hand, both economic development and the degree of fiscal dependency are significant in explaining the spatial pattern of government health spending; and their relationships are both non-linear. The fixed-effects panel data regression model predicts that, ceteris paribus, a province with a per capita gross regional product of 20,265 yuan would have the most government health outlays while a province with a fiscal dependency ratio of 63.6% would have the lowest public health expenditure. Provinces with either higher or lower per capita GRP (fiscal dependency ratio) than the threshold value allocate fewer (more) resources into government health outlays. The most important recommendation derived from the findings of this dissertation is that the central government should keep an eye on those provinces that are neither fully financially dependent nor fully financially independent, because their government health spending tends to be particularly inadequate. / published_or_final_version / China Development Studies / Master / Master of Arts in China Development Studies

據稿本複印 / 論文(哲學敎育碩士)--香港中文大學硏究院教育學部,1993. / 參考文獻: leaves 112-118 / 劉玉玲. / Chapter 第一章 --- 研究背景 / Chapter 第一節 --- 西風東漸下的適應對策 / Chapter 一 --- 教育改革 / Chapter 二 --- 教育思想 / Chapter 第二節 --- 研究動機與問題 / Chapter 第二章 --- 文獻綜述 / Chapter 第一節 --- 原始史料舉隅 / Chapter 第二節 --- 傳統婦女生活的文獻 / Chapter 一 --- 傳統婦女生活的具體問題 / Chapter 二 --- 婦女生活史 / Chapter 第三節 --- 晚清教育改革下興辦女學的文獻 / Chapter 一 --- 晚清婦女教育 / Chapter 二 --- 興辦女學的勢力 / Chapter 第四節 --- 小結 / Chapter 第三章 --- 研究設計 / Chapter 第一節 --- 研究範疇 / Chapter 第二節 --- 研究方法 / Chapter 第三節 --- 分析觀點 / Chapter 第四章 --- 巨變前夕的婦女生活與教育 / Chapter 第一節 --- 生活實踐與社會陋俗 / Chapter 第二節 --- 思想規範與女教書籍 / Chapter 第三節 --- 從識字到求學問 / Chapter 第四節 --- 小結 / Chapter 第五章 --- 創辦突破性的基督教女學堂的目的與對策(1842-1911) / Chapter 第一節 --- 基督教辦學的壓力與障礙 / Chapter 一 --- 侵略者形像 / Chapter 二 --- 中西文化差異下的官紳反教 / Chapter 三 --- 政府的態度 / Chapter 第二節 --- 堅持傳道的辦學目標 / Chapter 一 --- 從傳道到辦學 / Chapter 二 --- 傳教士作為辦女學的重要媒介 / Chapter 三 --- 創辦女學堂的目的 / Chapter 第三節 --- 基督教辦女學堂的本土化與世俗化取向 / Chapter 一 --- 小史 / Chapter 二 --- 對象的轉變 / Chapter 三 --- 課程的安排 / Chapter 第四節 --- 小結 / Chapter 第六章 --- 本土地方官紳興辦女學堂的潮流(1898-1911) / Chapter 第一節 --- 提論與事實的序列 / Chapter 第二節 --- 本土興辦女學目的的研究 / 同情婦女的先覺者 / Chapter 二 --- 為富強而辦女學 / Chapter 三 --- 創辦女學及其目的實踐的障礙 / Chapter 第三節 --- 本土興辦女學堂在學生與課程方面的特色 / Chapter 一 --- 發展概況 / Chapter 二 --- 收生對象的年齡與身份 / Chapter 三 --- 課程安排-德智體三育 / Chapter 四 --- 女學生形像-從校園走出社會 / Chapter 第四節 --- 小結 / Chapter 第七章 --- 總論 / 參考書目

譚惠鵬. / "2000年8月" / 論文 (哲學碩士)--香港中文大學, 2000. / 參考文獻 (leaves 125-130) / 附中英文摘要. / "2000 nian 8 yue" / Tan Huipeng. / Lun wen (zhe xue shuo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2000. / Can kao wen xian (leaves 125-130) / Fu Zhong Ying wen zhai yao. / Chapter 第一章 --- 緒論 --- p.1 / Chapter 第二章 --- 清末民初女子教育的發展 --- p.8 / Chapter 第一節 --- 男女嚴防的禮教觀念 --- p.8 / Chapter 第二節 --- 女子教育的倡導與萌芽時期的性別觀 --- p.12 / Chapter 第三節 --- 中國女子教育的制度化 --- p.17 / Chapter 第四節 --- 「男女同校」的討論與民初小學教育的突破 --- p.18 / Chapter 第五節 --- 小結 --- p.22 / Chapter 第三章 --- 新文化運動時期社交觀念的轉變與「男女同校」的討論和出現 --- p.24 / Chapter 第一節 --- 民國初期男女相處的情況 --- p.24 / Chapter 第二節 --- 新文化運動時期對男女社交的討論 --- p.28 / Chapter 第三節 --- 五四運動中男女交往的實踐 --- p.31 / Chapter 第四節 --- 「男女同校」的主張 --- p.36 / Chapter 第五節 --- 「男女同校」的先驅一教會學校 --- p.39 / Chapter 第六節 --- 小結 --- p.43 / Chapter 第四章 --- 北京大學開放女禁的歷程 --- p.45 / Chapter 第一節 --- 北大開放女禁以前的情況 --- p.45 / Chapter 第二節 --- 北大開放女禁 --- p.48 / Chapter 第三節 --- 北大開放女禁的意義 --- p.58 / Chapter 第四節 --- 小結 --- p.59 / Chapter 第五章 --- 「男女同校」的開展 --- p.61 / Chapter 第一節 --- 南京高等師範學校開放女禁 --- p.61 / Chapter 第二節 --- 北大和南高的比較 --- p.69 / Chapter 第三節 --- 其他高等院校的響應 --- p.70 / Chapter 第四節 --- 小結 --- p.74 / Chapter 第六章 --- 中學「男女同校」的發展 --- p.76 / Chapter 第一節 --- 1920年以前的女子中等教育 --- p.76 / Chapter 第二節 --- 兩性單軌制的確立 --- p.78 / Chapter 第三節 --- 中學教育工作者的努力 --- p.83 / Chapter 第四節 --- 地方政府的阻力 --- p.85 / Chapter 第五節 --- 小結 --- p.88 / Chapter 第七章 --- 「男女同校」的影響與檢討 --- p.89 / Chapter 第一節 --- 「男女同校」與兩性生活的變化 --- p.89 / Chapter 第二節 --- 「男女同校」的進一步檢討和討論 --- p.99 / Chapter 第三節 --- 小結 --- p.108 / Chapter 第八章 --- 結論 --- p.109 / Chapter 第一節 --- 二十年代「男女同校」發展的特點 --- p.109 / Chapter 第二節 --- 從女性主義角度看「男女同校」 --- p.112 / Chapter 第三節 --- 從「男女同校」到「男女分校」的主張： 檢討二三十年代「男女同校j發展的局限 --- p.114 / Chapter 第四節 --- 結語 --- p.115 / 附圖 --- p.117 / 引用資料 --- p.125

published_or_final_version / Education / Master / Master of Education

published_or_final_version / Education / Doctoral / Doctor of Education

published_or_final_version / Environmental Management / Master / Master of Science in Environmental Management