| On 23 November 2007, a Chamber Concert and Luncheon was held at our Tai Po Campus. The programme was jointly organised by the Department of Creative Arts and Physical Education, the International Society of Contemporary Music, the Asian Composers’ League and the Hong Kong Composers’ Guild. Hong Kong’s top musicians were |
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| invited to perform at this concert, which featured contemporary music composed in Japan, Korea, Mexico, Iceland, Slovakia and Israel. Attended by composers, academics, school principals, music teachers and student representatives, the concert was a tremendous success. Networking through music, we are able to maintain close and collaborative ties, not only with the education community but also the various co-organisers. With our joint efforts, we hope that everyone involved will be able to contribute to the future of music education in Hong Kong. |
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The World Association of Lesson Studies International Conference 2007 set out to provide a platform for the exchange of experiences in lesson studies amongst specialist academics and frontline teachers worldwide. Its ultimate purpose was to foster improvements in lesson delivery with a knowledge and understanding of the latest research results on lesson studies around the |
| world. The Conference was organised by the World Association of Lesson Studies and co-organised by the HKIEd’s Centre for Learning-study And School Partnership and the Research Department for Educational Theory of the China National Institute for Educational Research. Nearly 700 specialists, academics and frontline teachers from 14 countries attended the Conference. Among them were many world-class specialists on lesson studies – these included Prof Ference Marton of Sweden; Prof Colin Marsh of Australia; Prof John Elliot from the UK; Singapore’s Prof Lee Kim-eng; Prof Matoba Masami of Japan, Prof Cheng Fanping, Chairperson of the Academic Affairs Committee, The China National Institute of Educational Research; Prof Gu Lingyuan, Deputy Director of the Shanghai Academy of Educational Sciences; and Prof Lo Mun-ling from Hong Kong. In-depth discussions, from the theoretical to the practical levels, were held among the participants. |
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| Located at Mong Man Wai Library, the new 7 x 24 Learning Centre is open to all Institute Library users 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. In operation since November 2007, the Centre is now one of the Library’s most popular facilities. It regularly attracts over 100 students every evening after the library’s normal opening hours, and is also heavily used on weekends, with over 250 users on Sundays alone. |
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| In addition to allowing overnight access, the Centre also enables the Library to provide non-stop services over long vacation periods, such as Christmas and the New Year. |
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The Hong Kong Students’ Chinese Oral Competition 2007/08 was held between November and December 2007, with most of the organisation being handled by HKIEd’s prospective teachers. Over 10,000 students from 186 secondary and primary schools registered for the event. The Competition’s aim was to strengthen the students’ |
| rational communication ability and to equip them with the necessary experience to deal with public exams. Preparing for the Competition also fostered better relations between students and their parents. Leader of the Project for Research and Development on Rational Communication, Dr Fung Shu-fun, Associate Professor of the Department of Chinese, will collect all relevant data from the Competition to launch an empirical research on Chinese oral communications. The study, which will interweave research, teacher training and
social services, will have tremendous significance and far reaching consequences. |
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| For three consecutive years, the Institute has received the Caring Organisation Logo from The Hong Kong Council of Social Service, for our services in the community. Meeting the Council’s criteria for Voluntary Work, Employee Friendliness, Care for the Environment as well as in the areas of Mentoring and Giving, the Logo award recognises our long community service partnerships with the Salvation Army and the |
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| Hong Kong Children and Youth Services. Our work with the Salvation Army led to the launch of our Intergeneration Learning and Service Academy, while the latter resulted in the Sunshine in the Storm Project. The award allows us to continue using the Logo until 31 December 2008 on all our collateral materials and other organisational literature and activities. |
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