This study aims at investigating the perceptions of the schools on all recent graduates and the perceived needs the no beginning primary school teachers. The graduates include those graduated in the last two years in CE(P) (2 yr FT), CE(P) (3 yr FT), ICTT(P) (2 yr FT), ICTT(P) (3 yr PT) and TCSEN courses.

This project builds on the first stage of a comprehensive review of the past and present development of the art curriculum in Hong Kong schools. It aims to systematically investigates the implementation of the art curriculum in the local context and will form the foundation of a comparative study with Shanghai schools.

1) To collect information from relevant stakeholders on whether and how the courses of SCAST have benefited our graduates as members of the teaching professional; 2) to provide information that will guide further programme development work; and 3) based on the experience of the exercise, to revise the data gathering methods so that the effectiveness and efficiency of future studies on graduates can be further improved.

This project focused on primary school graduates' subject knowledge competence.

This project is part of continuation of a large-scale Hong Kong-Shanghai comparative curriculum research programme after the systematic review of curriculum development in Hong Kong at the first stage. The second stage aims to systematically investigate the implementation of music curriculum in Hong Kong schools at the level of basic education. The outcomes of this stage and the first stage will form the foundation of a comparative study of the music curriculum and teaching materials to illuminate the trend of curriculum development in the 21st century in Hong Kong and Shanghai.

It is a study on the music performance of the year one students with an elective in music.

This research project aims to conduct a selective review of the present development of some successful arts programmes at the primary and secondary schools level. It aims to systematically study the arts curriculum in the local as well as international context. Findings will form the foundation for developing some effective models of arts programme for Hong Kong schools.

A book on the theories and practice of perception, appreciation, and criticism of works of art and their relation to the Hong Kong school art curriculum.

The project aims to present some art educational materials as to speed up student teachers' learning and teaching by using computer technologies and to enable the student teachers to apply IT in the teaching and learning of art in primary schools. During the process of designing some interactive teaching and learning activities, the student teachers will learn to clarify their instructional techniques and acquire a thorough understanding of the teaching materials to be included in the presentation of the project. The project will be presented in the form of a CD ROM on art appreciation with interactive art appreciation activities for primary classroom teaching. The theme of the project is about integrating different arts forms in the teaching of visual art appreciation and art making.

The small scale experimental research conducted last year found that talking about art in association with artwork enhanced pupils' observation, art knowledge, interest in both art appreciation and art making. Further to that experiment, this study aims to examine the effects of talking about art on the development of creativity and general abilities that will help the learning of other subjects such as language. The effects of the experiment will be measured by essay writings, group interview and creativity test.

The project is a critical study of an innovative Chinese painter. It included review of aesthetic of Chinese painting and analysis of works by Gong Xian with a view to further understand the historical and cultural contexts of Chinese painting of the 17th century. The publication also served as an art education resource for teaching art history at secondary and tertiary levels.

This research aims to explore the art learning experiences of a group of local artists and the B.Ed add-on year-1 primary art student teachers of how they took their responses to their art learning environments. Focus will be placed on opening up the complex relationships among response, research and creativity and between past and new experiences, in their making of new art.

The project aims to enable participants to share expertise and experience with local designers concerning the creative process in costume design and stage design through seminars, workshops and studio production; produce and integrative artistic production; and enhance appreciation of arts and living through exhibition and stage performance. The participants will acquire knowledge and skills in costume and stage design through some workshops conducted by some prominets local designers and then produce a group performance of dynamic multi-media integrative arts presentation on a chosen theme.

The project aims of setting up a co-operative model for letter understanding and communication linkage between secondary schools and the HKIEd through active involvement in a joint venture. The team will jointly design, develop, produce and evaluate a set of interactive, musical instruments).

Traditional method processed in static, linear and disparate design model do not adequate for multimedia programs. Yet multimedia teaching with a focus on affective and cognitive approaches has been the subject of very little research. Both researchers and educators have to face a situation of very limited multi-disciplined nature teaching references. The project has been descriptive of the issues that have been arisen in Hong Kong context: 1) How to effectively use multimedia in cultivating Arts and Chinese Language? 2) How to reshape the instructional technology and make inner-directed models into schools? 3) How can new technology help to bring in resources, enriching continuous dialogue and expressive interpretant in humanist effort for teaching and learning?

In choral rehearsal the conductor will determine strategies and techniques to facilitate communication with the choir in order to achieve specific goals. Communication between choir and conductor is fundamental for a smooth rehearsal process and a successful performance. Hylton (1995) stated in Comprehensive Choral Music Education "In rehearsal three basic modes of communication are available to the conductor: verbalization, demonstration and conducting gestures". This case study was conducted in a sample Hong Kong Primary Schools to explore the rationale behind the conductor's choice of communication modes used in the rehearsals and to compare the effectiveness of the three basic modes in communicating different kinds of musical features.

A CD-ROM production for primary schools on Chinese folk song teaching, with interactive activities for primary school children.

The first aim of the project is a collaboration in research in the field of computer based music educational software and the development and an adaptation of tutorial applications (e.g. translation of Chinese language, new selection of example tunes, patterns, melodic themes, adaptation of scores, etc); The second aim is to carry out an Internet-based music seminar together with German and Chinese students in the last quarter of 1999 (in English language).

It is a joint project with University of Osnabruck, Germany on computer and internet based music teaching and learning.

This exploration is conducted in the interpretive/qualitative paradigm using the case study method. It includes the application of techniques evolved from the grounded theory in extracting themes and sub-themes. It will help to reveal the similarities and differences in conceptions of citizenship between two groups of Social Sciences student teachers, one in HKSAR and another in Guangzhou; and factors in shaping them. It is expected that findings will help orientate civic education curriculum development in the two systems under one country.

A project with the funding from the Teaching Development Grant (HKIEd). It aims at producing a pedagogical CD-ROM for the modules of "Contextual Studies II" of CE (Primary) course of HKIEd, and restructuring the course content with the contextualistic art criticism.

The project aims at promoting sharing of IT-based teaching materials among school teachers, students and parents so as to enhance the quality of teaching and learning. It has 8 areas of services, namely: Resource Library, AskIEd, School Directory, Surfsite, Forum, Bulletin, Teachers' Homepages, and Art Gallery. Please refer to the item " About ITEN " at http://itied.ied.edu.hk for more details.

The project provide each student and tutor of the art section with an interaction space in the internet web-site for the purpose of promoting collective construction for aesthetic knowledge particular to the Hong Kong situations and culture. It maximizes opportunities for reflective thought in response to a range of pedagogical instructional designs produced in teacher education courses.

This study is the first attempt of the SFE in the HKIEd to find out the employers' and graduates' opinions of how the graduates perform in teaching in primary schools.

A project (with CD-ROM and teachers' guidebook publication) aims at analyzing regional cultures systematically and providing sources for art activities through the understanding of the cultural elements.

The project aimed at exploring the forms and conditions in urban dwellings.

This research aims at evaluating which teaching approach that advocated by Keith Swanwick (Swanwick, 1988) and Robert Walker (Walker, 1990) is likely to be more powerful and effective to teach traditional Chinese music for secondary school students, and help them to appreciate Chinese culture through Chinese music. An experimental design will be used to compare the two approaches. Data of students' attitude and musical understanding of the taught traditional Chinese music will be collected using a five-point likert scale attitude inventory, written response on the musical understanding. Data of teachers' comment and evaluation of the two teaching strategies will be collected by semi-structured interviews and written reflections on the lessons taught and students' feedback. Analysis of teaching strategies will be undertaken utilizing themes derived from interviews and reflections of teachers and students.

From 1939 to 1999, within sixty years, there were many changes in formal and informal art curriculum. Through literature review and interviews, the researcher tried to explore and examine the influence of contextual factors to the forming of Hong Kong art education. The research findings will be published in the form of a book of about 250 pages.

This project aimed at developing the Honorary Teaching Adviser (HTA) Scheme to support the future implementation of the Field Experience of the B.Ed. (Secondary) Programme through a) soliciting initial support from secondary school principals; and b) piloting the HTA Scheme. A mini-survey was conducted with a selection of school principals and teachers and a pilot study was carried out in four secondary schools to promote the HTA Scheme.

The experiment done by Taylor, R. (1994) proved that students' understanding in artwork could well enhance their creative ability (Palmer, F., 1990). This project adopted the "Experiential Approach To Teaching Art History" by Smith A. (1993) in an attempt to integrate knowledge studied from historical contexts into contemporary artwork creation on the seldom explored theme of artwork found on traditional Chinese architectures. The project is done in schools from the three demographic regions in Hong Kong. Teachers in these schools developed their projects basing on heritage found in the school districts. The aim of the project is to study the effect of this approach on students from different categories.

This project aims at investigating the way that the student teachers perceive Chinese cultural and musical heritage before and after they joined the Institute.

There is an urge from the society to alert students to treasure Chinese culture and traditions. There could be various ways and channels to initiate and bring out the emphasis. Music teaching could be one of them. However, the contents and the ways of presentation could be somewhat affected by the practitioners in certain degree even though there is the provision of the curriculum content of Chinese music in the music syllabus. Thus, it is interesting to know the perception of Chinese cultural and musical heritage of the student teachers particularly before and after they joined the Institute, as there would be a change of status from a student of secondary school to a student teacher.

1) Identifying the problems related to the teaching of traditional Chinese music; 2) investigating ways to facilitate the teaching of traditional Chinese music; 3) exploring a balance between the teaching of Western and Chinese music in schools; 4) assisting secondary school music teachers in the teaching of traditional Chinese music; 5) exploring major elements, other than those happening in the classroom, affecting the teaching of traditional Chinese music; and 6) identifying common interest and problems confronting the teaching of traditional music in the Asian region.

The aims of this project are: 1) to investigate how thematic activities could strengthen people's concern towards their surroundings, their understanding about traditional culture and the establishment of a cultural identity; 2) to analyze regional cultures systematically and produce an art education toolkit suitable for the local culture; and 3) to provide inspiration for artists through an understanding of local culture.