1. 20 partner schools, along with their principals and 97 teachers, joined the project, which comprised a combined total of 4,100 hours of training, study visits, seminars and consultation sessions (35 hours per head in average). In sum, the activities of the project brought about a significant impact to the partner schools. All the partner schools expressed their decision to improve and implement their experiential designs of a Life Education unit or activity in the new school year after completion of the project, their intention to develop further Life Education units or activities based on what they had learnt in this project.


2. In a survey conducted on the different partner schools in October 2011, the school year following completion of the project, 15 out of 17 school respondents (88%) expressed interest in adopting the whole-school approach to planning of Life Education after their participation in the programme. These schools listed Life Education as a major item in their school development plan. 5 schools (30%) told us that for the purpose of school-based development of Life Education, they submitted applications from public money or school-sponsoring organization of staff development on Life Education, including Study Tours to Taiwan.


3. The Project was found to have built a strong network of expertise among partner schools. Organizers of the Project invited academics and experts on Life Education to act as consultations and frontline experts. Instructors with outstanding background in Life Education were likewise invited to share their experiences on the subject. The Taiwan Study Tour group built alliances with scholars, institutions, schools and organizations that played important roles in developing and implementing Life Education in Taiwan.

Consultants:

Frontline Experts:

Instructors of Training Sessions

Partners of Taiwan Study Tour
台北護理健康大學生死教育與輔導研究所
台北市國語實驗國民小學
三之三文教機構花婆婆繪本館
台北市華江國民小學
台北市中山區吉林國民小學
世界宗教博物館
吳庶深教授、孫效智教授、紀潔芳教授。

Partner Schools

Each Partner School submitted an experiential design for a Life Education unit or activity. All 20 designs have been published in the following site for public access:
http://www.ied.edu.hk/crse/201011lifeedu/0625display_boards.html

In collaboration with Kung Kao Po《公教報》, the Centre edited the column “Lighting the Soul” that featured articles from years 2010–2011 and 2011–2012, with topics ranging from religious education to life education, as well as, spiritual, national, and values education. The series contained articles on life education related to the Project by project leaders Professor Lee Chi Kin and Dr. Wong Ping Ho, the project manager Dr. Ho Wing Hon, and teachers from 5 partner schools. The published articles can be accessed via the Centre website.

The articles can be accessed through the following links:
http://www.ied.edu.hk/crse/kungkaopo.html for 2010–2011, and
http://www.ied.edu.hk/crse/kungkaopo2011-12.html for 2011–2012.

The Centre published a yearbook in November 2011, with life education as its theme. This yearbook featured the project in an article as a highlight for the year.

The yearbook can be accessed at
http://www.ied.edu.hk/crse/yearbook2010-2011-toc.html

Professor Lee Chi Kin, John
Professor John C. K. Lee, JP, Vice President (Academic) and Chair Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, joined HKIEd in 2010. He was Dean of Education and a Professor at the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He was also a former Director of the Centre for University and School Partnership, and had served as a Fellow of United College and Morningside College at CUHK. He had worked as a secondary school teacher and a lecturer at the Sir Robert Black College of Education.
Professor Lee graduated from the University of Hong Kong and received his MSc degree from the University of Oxford, his M.A. (Ed.) and PhD degrees, as well as, a Diploma in Education (with distinction) from CUHK. His research interests are focused on curriculum and instruction, geographical and environmental education and school improvement. He is active in leading and securing education research and development projects, and has a solid track record in securing external grants. One of his projects, The ‘Accelerated Schools for Quality Education Project’, won the Quality Education Fund Outstanding Project Award in 2008. He has served as co-editor of the Education Journal, regional editor (Asia) of Educational Research and Evaluation, associate editor of Teachers and Teaching and editorial board member or advisory editor of many local, regional and international journals. He is also a prolific writer who has edited and written more than 20 books and published over 100 journal articles and book chapters.
Professor Lee has actively participated in education and social service in Hong Kong, Mainland China and overseas. He served as the UNESCO consultant of an environmental education project in China, executive governing board member of the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement and technology support committee member of the International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies. He likewise served as board member for the Geography Teaching Research Association, China Educational Association and Chinese Association of Higher Education. He has also been invited many times as visiting/guest/adjunct professor in universities overseas and in Mainland China. 

Dr. Wong Ping Ho
Dr. Wong Ping Ho served as a secondary school teacher for ten years, teaching various subjects, before moving into teacher education by joining the Hong Kong Technical Teachers' College in 1988. He moved over to the Hong Kong Institute of Education in 1994, when it was established through the amalgamation of the Colleges of Education. Dr. Wong's interest in religious and spirituality education began when he attended the HKU M.Ed. program on Moral and Religious Education. He continued to pursue his study of spirituality education through a Ph.D. from the University of Hull. Children's spiritual development and spirituality education have remained his main areas of research. He was also involved in the establishement of the Institute's Centre for Religious and Spirituality Education in 2006, of which he is currently the Director.

Dr. Wong has served as Subject Coordinator of the Institute’s Doctor of Education (Life and Values Education) and Master of Education (Life and Spirituality Education) programmes. For his outstanding contributions to Life Education, he received the Life Education Award (Individual Category) presented by the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation in 2011.

Education Bureau