Taking cultivation of positive values and attitudes as the direction, the Education Bureau has integrated various cross-curricular domains into values education since 2017, including moral education, civic education, national education (including Constitution, Basic Law and national security education), anti-drug education, life education, sex education, media and information literacy education, education for sustainable development, human rights education under the legal framework, etc. This will enable students to cope with complex situations in daily life and practise good behaviors with a moral, positive and persevering attitude.
Adopting Chinese culture as the backbone, values education should connect various cross-curricular domains, including moral education, civic education, national education (including Constitution, Basic Law and national security education), anti-drug education, life education, sex education, media and information literacy education, education for sustainable development, human rights education under the legal framework, etc. It should also help students to establish positive values and attitudes through connecting and penetrating different curricular domains and life-wide learning.
The core values of Chinese culture:caring for lives, perseverance, respecting others, empathy, tolerating others, sense of responsibility, family value, filial piety, benevolence.