香港中學課程中的經學元素

Since Hong Kong became a British colony, its social development has been under Western influences. Hong Kong’s connection to the Chinese culture, however, has not been totally severed. Universal 6 values such as social justice, equality, and rule of law, and traditional Chinese social values including ren (humaneness), yi (righteousness or justice), li (propriety or etiquette), and xiao (filial piety) have both been emphasized. Before the 1990s, only 10 percent of secondary school graduates in Hong Kong were admitted to universities. Most people at that time had only received secondary school education. Their moral values were essentially rooted during their secondary school education and Chinese language education was therefore extremely important. Chinese language teachers were able to instill into their students these values through the teaching of Chinese classics (jingxue). This paper attempts to investigate the roles that jingxue plays in the development of youth through examining the goals and design of the Chinese curriculum, as well as the contents of the examination.