回歸後，香港特區政府推行了多項課程改革，學者亦積極地探討有關的課程政策及議題。近年，用軟、硬政策概念分析新課程政策的性質，引起教育界人士的關注。在本文中，研究者從學校政策制定者的角度，瞭解學校如何理解新課程，以及如何制定應對措施。研究在三所小學進行，結果發現學校政策制定者對新課程的軟、硬性質有不同的理解；而且，他們基於這些理解，決定學校的課程取向。

Following its return to Chinese sovereignty, the Hong Kong Special Administrative government has implemented major curriculum reform policies. These have led to a great deal of discussion among scholars. The concepts of ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ policy have been used to analyze the nature of these policies. The current study has used these concepts but has taken the perspective of school policy makers from three primary schools in an attempt to understand implementation issues. The results show that school policy makers have distinctive understandings of the ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ nature of current curriculum policies and these understandings are the foundations for school curriculum decision making.