香港中華文化教育的展望

中國具有數千年的文化傳統，在人類的文明進程中作出了重大的貢獻。二十一世紀伊始，我們正式啟動「中華文化世紀工程」，全面落實中華文化的普及教育。這個工程，從小學、初中到高中，以至大學，由淺入深，設置中華文化各個階段不同的學習內容，從而建構漸進式和系統化的文化學習模式，希望使我們的下一代從小就增進對中華文化的認識、反思和認同，提高慎思明辨的能力，培養正確的倫理道德觀念，並藉此建立文化自信。
在編寫中華文化教材時，必須設身處地，考慮學生所處的生活環境和社會狀況所可能面對的問題，並結合現代資訊科技和多媒體的應用。我們嘗試從中華文化中挖掘適切的元素和恰當的歷史文化故事，以提高學生的學習興趣，研究團隊不會只抱持中華文化本位，故步自封；而是進行跨文化的比較探究，尊重多元文化，令學生、教師和教材三者在教學的過程中作良性互動，從而加強學習成效。
With several thousand years of cultural heritage, China has made great contribution to human civilization. Since the beginning of the 21th century, we have launched the Millennium Project for Chinese Culture Education, to make Chinese culture education an entitlement for all students. This project tailor-makes contents for beginning to advanced learners in primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of education, scaffolding a spiral and systematic learning model for Chinese culture cultivation. It is hoped that this project can strengthen recognition, reflection, and identification of Chinese culture of our next generation, and enhance their critical thinking skills, through which they are expected to establish correct ethical and moral values to foster their cultural confidence.
We need to put ourselves in students’ positions by contextualizing their living environment and social status, and to incorporate the state-of-the-art application of information technology and multimedia when designing teaching materials for Chinese culture education. We endeavor to unearth suitable elements and stories with historic and cultural implications to improve students’ learning interests. Instead of a Chinese culture-centered and close-minded approach, the research team conducts a comparative inter-cultural inquiry which respects multiculturalism, in order to ensure a positive interaction between students, teachers, and teaching designs in the process of learning and teaching for enhanced learning outcomes. Copyright © 2021 中華書局(香港)有限公司.