Teaching Non Western Studies In Secondary School

Author : Johnny Ch Lok
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book Education Methods And Culture Difference Between Asia And Western written by Johnny Ch Lok and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: However, Hong Kong liberal studies subject aims to help students to understand issues faced by society and to respect different opinions. Liberal studies teachers expect to train their these skills to be improved, such as generic skills, these are a high demand for generic skills in Hong Kong society, in which the economy is knowledge based liberal studies brings great emphasis on the development of such skills for meeting Hong Kong societal needs. The idea that generic skill affect performance in a wide range of functioning is by no means a new concept. Liberal studies is expected to be taught how good cooperating to do any tasks or projects or assignments, when students need to cooperate with colleagues in complex environment of work. Generic skills can not operate without knowledge, such as building s bridge needs have engineering knowledge or writting an essay needs have vocabilary and grammer of the language knowledge. Hence, generic skills are supported to be transferable skills which effort performance in many.Also, liberal studies subject can teach communication skills, when a classroom learning and teaching activity is needed to group discussion in classroom as well as when students are insolved in enquiry or an issue, they will usually work in small groups and so group discussion becomes essential . So, liberal studies subject can be taught to train students how to understand of turn-raking, the ability to identify others' viewpoints and an appreciation that every one's views should be respected most easily. It can train collaborative skills, how to help students to engage effectively in tasks and teamwork. Because group work can be used to develop not only students' communication skills, but also their ability to cooperate effectively with others. When Hong Kong students can learn liberal studies subject, then when they explore on issue in groups, they can have more confidence to work with classmates in making decisions on, for example, how to analyze the sorts of information needed to finish any tasks more easily and how it can be collected and organized more easily. Also, liberal studies subject can train students how to negotiate and argue move towards a consensus more easily. Liberal studies subject can train students to raise critical thinking skills, such as how to help them to draw out meaning from given data or statements, generate and evaluate arguments, and train them to make more accurate judgement to finish any matters or tasks more easily and effectively and efficiently. This is the teaching aims of liberal studies subject in Hong Kong high schools nowadays.However, Hong Kong educators also believe liberal studies subject can train these skills to high school students, such as problem solving skills, how to understand the problem to note the existing data and constraints and see what is needed to solve it more easily, how to formulate a plan, carry out the plan and check it by confirmation of each relevant test at each stage and to check the solution to see if it can be improved more easily, creatie skills, liberal studies can engage students in investigation in groups to develop and evaluate solutions to various problems through such activities, it is possible that liberal studies can train students learn how to create a creative environment to provide them to raise the more ability to generate original ideas and solve problems more easily, liberal studies lessons can train students hoe to see, analyse, manage easily and present information critically in an intelligently information age and a digitised world.