澳門三十年來教育研究之回顧

The trajectory of educational development in Macau during the past thirty or more years has revealed the change of attitude of the government from indifference in the past to intervention and active participation in the private education sector. The Macau Portuguese government showed concerns about education in the private sector in the 1980s. Since then, the government has started to conduct educational surveys and research. During the transition period in Macau, academic units were undoubtedly the major force driving educational studies, two of which were the Centre for Macau Studies and the Faculty of Education of the University of Macau. Local educational studies were launched with the support of the government and local educational organizations. After the return of sovereignty, there have emerged some new trends, including the growth of academic units in terms of their research capability, the awarding of various educational studies to tertiary institutions from different regions by the government for the sake of evaluating the education system, the compilation and publication of quality educational research papers by The Macao Foundation, as well as the calls for submission of book manuscripts and papers on special themes for publication by The Chinese Educators’ Association of Macau on a regular basis. This paper will give an account of the educational studies and some related works with reference to the contemporary educational development in Macau.