HKIER

Abstract

Despite the introduction of the Guidelines on Sex Education in Schools (the Guidelines) as early as in 1997, the implementation of sex education across schools in Hong Kong remained ineffective and even stagnant in the last two decades. Although the government argues that the Guidelines are only for reference, many schools rely on it heavily when designing their own sex education curriculum. Nonetheless, the contextualization of the Guidelines reveals a series of tensions and challenges associated with the school-based development of sex education in Hong Kong. Therefore, with the employment of qualitative documentary analysis, this article aims to contribute to the field by undergoing a critical analysis of the Guidelines as well as other publications related to sex education in Hong Kong and around the world, followed by elaborating on how to fully implement it in a way that could address the challenges arisen from the latest digital media technology, lack of holistic and coherent curriculum planning and design, the paternalistic and top-down learning and teaching approach, insufficient interdisciplinary collaboration, poor or lack of curriculum renewal and evaluation design, and inadequate professional development of teachers. After all, the successful delivery of a comprehensive and competent sex education requires coherent and systematic planning and structuring from the bottom-up, middle-out, and top-down dimensions within a school, which refers to classroom students, frontline teachers, and school curriculum.

Keywords: sex education; civic and moral education; educational policies; curriculum studies; Hong Kong

摘要

儘管香港早於1997年已推出《學校性教育指引》（下稱《指引》），但過去二十年間，香港學校實施性教育的效果可謂欠佳，甚至停滯不前。雖然政府認為《指引》僅供學校參考，但許多學校在設計各自的性教育課程時非常依賴《指引》。儘管如此，《指引》的處境化揭示了香港以學校為基礎的性教育發展所帶來的對立和挑戰。因此，本研究運用定性文獻分析，對《指引》和香港及世界各地與性教育有關的其他刊物進行批判分析，以期為該領域作出貢獻，然後詳細闡述如何全面實施性教育，以應對數字媒體技術興起、整體和連貫的課程規劃和設計缺乏、家長式和自上而下的學與教方法、跨學科協作不足、課程更新不足或缺乏、教師專業發展不足等挑戰。畢竟，成功實施全面和有效的性教育需要在學校內從下而上、從內到外、自上而下的維度（即學生、教師和課程）進行連貫且具系統的計畫和構建。

關鍵詞：性教育；德育及公民教育；教育政策；課程研究；香港