| dc.description.abstract | There are four ways for teacher education in British Hong Kong: private tutoring, normal school, professional development programme and diploma programme. The emergence of normal school can be traced back to the establishment of Government Normal School (GNS) by the Hong Kong authorities under the governorship of John Pope Hennessy (1834-1891). It is because of 1) the rising demand of the Asian teachers and 2) the high cost of hiring teachers from aboard.
Among the institutes for teacher education in British Hong Kong, Northcote College of Education (1939-1994), the oldest one among the institutes for teacher education under the Hong Kong authorities, with 55 years throughout the development and turmoil of the Hong Kong society during and after the Second World War. Furthermore, the history of the institute organised by the Hong Kong authorities reveals the change of the teacher education demand in British Hong Kong.
By utilizing the primary and secondary source materials, including government documents, student publications, graduation publications, newspapers, programme handbooks, alumni publications and interviews etc., and comparing the education systems throughout the years from British Hong Kong to nowadays, the paper investigates the development of Northcote College of Education. | en_US |