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L e John Chi-Kin Lee e · W Michael Williams i l Editors l i a m s E d s . Schooling for Sustainable 1 Development in Chinese Communities iS n c Ch ho io nl ein seg C fo or m S mu s ut a n i itn Experience with Younger Children ia eb s l e D e v e l o p m e n t AB 3 Schooling for Sustainable Development in Chinese Communities: Experience with Younger Children John Chi-Kin Lee (cid:129) Michael Williams Editors Schooling for Sustainable Development in Chinese Communities: Experience with Younger Children Editors John Chi-Kin Lee Michael Williams Faculty of Education Faculty of Education and Health Studies Department of Curriculum & Instruction Swansea University Chinese University of Hong Kong Swansea Hong Kong SAR, United Kingdom PR China ISBN 978-1-4020-9685-3 e-ISBN 978-1-4020-9686-0 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9686-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 2008942783 © 2009 Springer Science + Business Media B.V. No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper springer.com Children’s environmental learning in the wetland of Hong Kong Acknowledgments Writing and co-editing a book from its conception to completion is always a challenging task especially so when working with a number of scholars and friends from different cultures in the Chinese communities and elsewhere. First, we would like to thank all of the contributors to this book, one of the first to explore the issue of education for sustainable development in the Chinese communities: Angel Yuet-Ying Au, Gwyn Edwards, Yu Huang, Kwok-Chan Lai, Wing-Po Lam, William Hing-Tong Ma, Margaret Robertson, Shun-Mei Wang, Guang Yang, and Hongying Zeng. John Chi-Kin Lee would like to thank the Sumitomo Foundation in Japan for sponsoring the project Education for Sustainable Development: A Comparative Analysis of Educational Policies and Practices in Primary Schools in Japan, China and Hong Kong that helped considerably in the writing of Chapter 10. He is particularly grateful for the sponsorship provided by the Sustainable Development Fund in Hong Kong for funding the project Education for Sustainable Development in Primary Schools that provides the basic data for Chapters 8 and 9. Permission given by the WWF-China Office to use information from the Environmental Educators’ Initiatives project in Chapters 6 and 7 is deeply appreciated. He would also thank Ms. Dung Yi-Ping for allowing us to quote in Chapter 9 figures and tables from her unpublished thesis. Sincere gratitude is also extended to the schools and teachers referred to in this book who have made and are making valuable contributions to promoting educa- tion for sustainable development. For preparing the final manuscript for publication, we must thank Angel Yuet- Ying Au and Zhonghua Zhang for their hard work, especially in indexing and proofreading. The authors would also like to thank Zhonghua Zhang for helping with the statistical analysis of questionnaire survey data used in Chapter 12. As always, we would like to thank our wives Irene Tang and Wendy Williams for their generous patience, support and encouragement. vii Contents 1 Environmental Education for Sustainability in Primary Schools in Chinese Communities ........................................ 1 John Chi-Kin Lee and Michael Williams 2 Dimensions of Environmental Education and Education for Sustainable Development ................................................ 25 John Chi-Kin Lee and Michael Williams 3 Assessment and Evaluation ..................................................................... 53 Kwok-Chan Lai and John Chi-Kin Lee 4 Education for Sustainable Development: Towards Whole School and Community Approaches .......................... 77 Margaret Robertson and John Chi-Kin Lee 5 Leading Curriculum Change for Education for Sustainable Development in Schools ................................................ 95 Gwyn Edwards and John Chi-Kin Lee 6 Education for Sustainable Development Projects and Curriculum Reform in China: The EEI and the EPD .......................... 115 John Chi-Kin Lee and Yu Huang 7 Green Schools in China ........................................................................... 137 Hongying Zeng, Guang Yang and John Chi-Kin Lee 8 The Education for Sustainable Development Project in Hong Kong ............................................................................................ 157 John Chi-Kin Lee, Wing-Po Lam and Michael Williams 9 Case Studies from the Education for Sustainable Development Project in Hong Kong ....................................................... 177 John Chi-Kin Lee, Michael Williams and Wing-Po Lam ix x Contents 10 Green Primary Schools in Hong Kong ................................................. 195 John Chi-Kin Lee 11 The Greenschool Project in Taiwan ..................................................... 213 Shun-Mei Wang 12 Progress Towards Education for Sustainable Development in Macao...................................................... 233 John Chi-Kin Lee, Angel Yuet-Ying Au and William Hing-Tong Ma 13 Lessons Learned and Future Directions .............................................. 257 John Chi-Kin Lee Index ................................................................................................................ 281 Contributors Angel Yuet-Ying Au Research Associate at the Centre for University and School Partnership, Faculty of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She was awarded her Ph.D. in terrestrial plant ecology at The University of Hong Kong. Gwyn Edwards Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong. Previously, he was a Lecturer in the Department of Educational Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London. His main teaching and research interests are: the humanities curriculum (including geographical and environmental education); curriculum change; educational leadership; and teacher professional development. Yu Huang Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Education College at Hokkaido University, Japan. He is a former master teacher in the Environmental Education Centre in Beijing Normal University. He has publications and experience in environmental education, geography and sustainable development education. He has also served as a consultant to NGOs and government agencies such as WWF- China and the Chinese State Environmental Protection Administration (now the Ministry of Environmental Protection). Kwok-Chan Lai Head of Strategic and Academic Planning at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. He has been a geography teacher, an Inspector of Schools in geography, and the Head of the Department of Social Studies in the Hong Kong Institute of Education. For 2 years he was in charge of geography fieldwork in the first Field Study Centre in Hong Kong. His doctoral research focused on experiential learning in geography field trips. His current research interests include geographical and environmental education, teacher professionalisation, and teacher demand and supply. Wing-Po Lam Former secondary school teacher, Senior Lecturer at Sir Robert Black College of Education, Assistant Education Officer (Administration) at the Education Department, Executive Officer I at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, xi xii Contributors as well as School Development Officer of the Centre for University and School Partnership, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has participated in various projects including the Professional Development for Environmental Education in Primary Schools and Education for Sustainable Development in Primary Schools. John Chi-Kin Lee Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Director of the Centre for University and School Partnership and Dean of the Faculty of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has worked as a Consultant for UNESCO on environmental education in China and has been a Visiting/Guest/ Adjunct Professor in a number of Normal Universities in China. His recent publications include Environmental and Geographical Education for Sustainability: Cultural Contexts, co-edited with Michael Williams (Nova Science, 2006), School Improvement: International Perspectives, co-edited with Michael Williams (Nova Science, 2006) and The Changing Role of Schools in Asian Societies – Schools for the Knowledge Society, co-authored with Kerry J. Kennedy (Routledge, 2008). William Hing-Tong Ma Former School Development Officer at the Centre for University and School Partnership, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was one of the Project Team for the Education for Sustainable Development in Primary Schools project. He has extensive experience in teaching sciences and mathematics in primary schools. He was formerly a lecturer at the University of Macao and taught courses related to early childhood education. He has coordinated the projects on Quality Early-childhood Education for All and Early Childhood Environmental Education and Teacher Training. Margaret Robertson Professor in Education and Director of Research in the Faculty of Education at La Trobe University. She is involved in numerous international research projects focused on sustainable development, geographical education and teaching and learning with digital technologies. Her leadership in these areas is currently recognised with the project directorship of the ICSU (International Council for Science) funded project titled Geographical Perspectives on Sustainable Development Networking Local Area Partnerships with Teachers and Young Scientists. Shun-Mei Wang Associate Professor and former Director of the Graduate Institute of Environmental Education, National Taiwan Normal University. She has extensive experience in leading environmental education research projects for various government agencies including: the Department of Science Education, National Science Council; National Youth Commission, Executive Yuan; Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan; Environmental Protection Administration, Executive Yuan; and the Ministry of Education. Professor Wang has led the Taiwan Greenschool Project since 1999. Michael Williams Emeritus Professor of Swansea University (until recently the University of Wales Swansea). He is a former Head of the Department of Education and Dean of the Faculty of Education and Health Studies. He has researched and
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