Curriculum Amendments

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This essay holds the view that despite the success of current policy of Liberal Studies (LS) in enhancing education freedom, further amendments should still be made to enhance its political and educational feasibility.

One of the significant arguments on the amendments in the curriculum is that since the proposed changes would be the government’s decision, amending the curriculum might cause adverse effects to education freedom. Fung and Lui (2017) report LS teachers’ statement that a high degree of freedom is given to teachers when teaching LS, and they are confident that the students’ critical thinking skills could still be encouraged under the current policy. The teachers.criticises the plans proposed by government officials of trimming …show more content…

Fok (2016) argues that while the officials have made appreciable effort in evaluating the feasibility of LS, the policy of assessing LS through public examinations could arise disapproval from the public under the “dominance of examination culture” (p. 227). This argument regards the marking inconsistency that might occur due to subjective bias as a contributing factor for such disapproval, and the existence of disapproval is evaluated and found to have been coherent to social reality. Another research study conducted by Fung (2016) states that there might exist some media abuse from the government by the time of LS implementation. The media indicated a supportive stance from the public towards the LS education policy, while verifications to the related claims are inadequate. The evidence suggests that public criticisms against the policy probably have existed during the policy-making stage. However, they might have been overlooked by the officials as they might have been too eager to introduce the subject at that time. Amendments to the curriculum could be essential to address the problems in case the disagreement might accumulate and create resistance in promoting

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