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Early Childhood Visual Arts Education: Teachers' Content Knowledge, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, and Challenges
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Suzannie K. Y. Leung; Joseph Wu; Tung Hei Ho – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2025
In the past, visual arts education in Hong Kong was not considered an important area of early childhood education. While the Hong Kong kindergarten curriculum has recently been updated to encourage creativity, there remains a lack of adequate visual arts education for young children. This deficiency stems from the fact that the visual arts receive…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Visual Arts, Art Education, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Teachers' Belief-and-Practice Gap in Implementing Early Visual Arts Curriculum in Hong Kong
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Leung, Suzannie K. Y. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2020
Hong Kong, as a capitalist society, has an achievement-driven education system. Visual arts have become a marginalized learning area, especially in early childhood education. Although 'art and creativity' is one of the six learning domains for early childhood education in the kindergarten curriculum guide in Hong Kong, product-oriented and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Education, Teacher Attitudes
Students' and Teachers' Perceptions of Creativity, Communication and Problem-Solving in the School Curriculum: Hong Kong Perspective
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Lee, John Chi-Kin; Chan, Nim Chi; Xu, Huixuan; Chun, Derek Wai-sun – Educational Practice and Theory, 2017
The development of generic skills is a focal issue in education policy and school curriculum reform across countries. This study in the Hong Kong context explores the sources of formal and non-formal curriculum and learning activities related to senior secondary students' perceptions of learning outcomes in creativity, communication, and problem…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Creativity, Learning Activities
Arts Education and Creativity Enhancement in Young Children in Hong Kong
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Hui, Anna N. N.; He, Mavis W. J.; Ye, Shengquan Sam – Educational Psychology, 2015
The present study aimed at assessing Hong Kong young children's gains in creativity and their teachers' application of arts education after a one-year artists-teachers collaborative arts education project that involves various art forms (i.e. drama, visual arts and integrated). Participants included 790 young children, 217 parents and 65 teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creativity, Art Education, Parent Attitudes
Assessing Visual-Spatial Talents: The Use of the Impossible Figures Task with Chinese Students in Hong Kong
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Chan, David W. – High Ability Studies, 2008
Ninety university undergraduate students were tested on a number of tasks assessing their recognition of possible and impossible figures, mental rotation, ideational fluency, and self-report artistic and creative characteristics. Scores on the Impossible Figures Task (IFT-14) and the Mental Rotation Test, and self-ratings on the Artistic…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Visual Arts, Gifted, Rating Scales
Creativity and Drawing Abilities of Chinese Students in Hong Kong: Is There a Connection?
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Chan, David W.; Chan, Lai-kwan – New Horizons in Education, 2007
Background: Recognizing that arts education is important in facilitating learning and in enhancing creativity in students, recent education reform in Hong Kong has sought to promote arts education and efforts to encourage creative expression through different art forms. Among different modes of creative arts expression, drawing has been suggested…
Descriptors: Creativity, Freehand Drawing, Academically Gifted, Creative Activities