Education Policy Analysis

Liberal Studies and National Education in Hong Kong

This book reports on a five-year longitudinal study of the policy relating to the introduction of Liberal Studies, which was developed as an interdisciplinary curriculum in the New Senior Secondary (NSS) academic structure in post-colonial Hong Kong. It also examines the implementation of Moral and National Education, which has become one of the most recent controversial issues in Hong Kong’s education policy. Adopting a cross-subject perspective, it concludes by illustrating the roles of Liberal Studies and Moral and National Education in strengthening multi-disciplinary learning and citizenship education in the NSS academic structure.

Studies. Curriculum. Policy. Our primary source of data is three studies conducted at different times: a five-year longitudinal study carried out before the reintroduction of Liberal Studies (2004– 2009), a follow-up investigation three ...