New Horizons in Education

Abstract

The problem of students’ individual differences has been getting worse in Hong Kong. In recent curriculum reform, schools have been encouraged to use curriculum adaptation as the strategy to deal with this problem. Thus many schools particularly primary schools have made attempts to adapt their curriculum to cater for their students’ individual differences. As teachers are the ones who adapt the school curriculum, their views on using this strategy to cater for individual differences would have direct impact on the effect of curriculum implementation in schools. Through interviewing primary teachers, this study aims to understand teachers’ perceptions of using curriculum adaptation as the strategy to cater for students’ individual differences. The main purpose is to remind those principals and educators who would like to implement curriculum innovations including curriculum adaptation in schools, to pay special attention to teachers’ views and attitudes towards the innovations and the need of identifying appropriate implementation strategies in their initiation of school-based innovative initiatives.

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