Coming to Grips with Change: The Initial Training of Geography Teachers in Hong Kong.

This article is concerned with the impact of various changes in the teacher education curriculum for the initial training of geography teachers in Hong Kong, China. The author notes that geography teacher trainers in Hong Kong have not been unaware of global trends in teacher training. Ideas such as school-university partnership, problem-based learning, and first steps on professional ladders have been strong in the rhetoric if not always so apparent in practice. Changing social and economic conditions in China, however, have caused geography teacher educators, as others, to think more seriously about substantive, sustained reform in the ways teachers are trained.