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Re-Shaping Education for Citizenship Democratic National Citizenship in Hong Kong

Byram Mike Pak-Sang, Lai
Innbundet / 2012 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781443835312
Publisert
2012-04-04
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Høyde
212 mm
Bredde
148 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
260

Forfatter
Byram Mike
Pak-Sang, Lai

Biographical note

Pak-sang Lai was a secondary school teacher and then a lecturer in teacher education, joining the Hong Kong Institute of Education in 1995 until retirement. He has taught and researched public affairs and education, and now serves as expert consultant on public policy for education and on education in schools. He has published on reproduction politics in bilingual education.Michael Byram taught languages in secondary school and adult education. At Durham University since 1980, now Professor Emeritus, he has researched the education of linguistic minorities and foreign language education. His most recent book is From Foreign Language Education to Education for Intercultural Citizenship (Multilingual Matters) and he is the editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning.

Re-Shaping Education for Citizenship Democratic National Citizenship in Hong Kong

Byram Mike Pak-Sang, Lai
Innbundet / 2012 / Engelsk
Byram Mike Pak-Sang, Lai
Innbundet / 2012 / Engelsk
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Despite or perhaps because of globalisation and internationalisation in the contemporary world, the role of education has become more significant in nation formation. However, whereas in the past its function was to create homogeneity and assimilation, today it must deal with diversity and plurality. The modernist premise of “one nation one state” is being questioned and re-constituted with the notion of the plural national-state.This book explores school processes in Hong Kong under these new conditions. The focus is on investigating how the concept of a national identity of the “one country two systems” policy is developing, and is thus a study of that diversity which all education systems now have to address. The policy aims at facilitating national re-integration and consolidation in the face of an insistence on local citizens’ universal civic rights and the values of liberty, equality, democracy and autonomy.The analysis shows citizenship education in the Hong Kong school system is more a locally-oriented cultural and political process than a transmission of a national ideology. Students learn their values, attitudes and perspectives by engaging and interacting with people within and beyond the school community. They acquire a liberal and democratic national identity which is distinct from that of pan-Chinese state-nationalism in mainland China.The book is thus both a case study of Hong Kong and an analysis of change in the relationship of education, citizenship and national identity in the contemporary world.
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Despite or perhaps because of globalisation and internationalisation in the contemporary world, the role of education has become more significant in nation formation. However, whereas in the past its function was to create homogeneity and assimilation, today it must deal with diversity and plurality.
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''This study has much to recommend to educators involved with citizenship and moral education from different countries. It gives empirical evidence that citizenship education can be both democratic and national, providing a conceptual analysis of the framework as well as methods of national citizenship education in Hong Kong.'' - Dr. Tatiana Golikova “The book deals effectively with the holistic development of citizenship education in Hong Kong and impressively identifies elements of democratic national citizenship which are intertwined with de-contextualized ethno-cultural Chinese nationalism. It provides inspiration for citizenship education for national citizenship. Thus, it comes highly recommended and is certain to contribute to the development of research in this field.” - Ping Ren, Journal of Social Science Education, 12:4 (2013), 58-59. “This book is in more than one sense inspiring and unusual. It is inspiring because, firstly, its main theme captures well the essence of a ‘dual purpose’ citizenship education in Hong Kong […] Secondly, this book provides an unusual yet long-awaited case study of Hong Kong’s secondary schools.” - Cheuk-Hang Leung, Asian Affairs (November 2013)“Even with its focus on Hong Kong, the book provides a very useful introduction to and interesting discourse about the dynamics and complexity of interplay between national and local citizenships in a globalized context. As the world becomes increasingly interconnected and interdependent, this discourse points the way for similar future research on such interplay in other societies and cultures. The book should interest readers of diverse backgrounds across the fields of sociology, citizenship education and China studies.”- Wing-Wah Law, Pacific Affairs, 86:4 (December 2013) 905-907.
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Despite or perhaps because of globalisation and internationalisation in the contemporary world, the role of education has become more significant in nation formation. However, whereas in the past its function was to create homogeneity and assimilation, today it must deal with diversity and plurality. The modernist premise of “one nation one state” is being questioned and re-constituted with the notion of the plural national-state.This book explores school processes in Hong Kong under these new conditions. The focus is on investigating how the concept of a national identity of the “one country two systems” policy is developing, and is thus a study of that diversity which all education systems now have to address. The policy aims at facilitating national re-integration and consolidation in the face of an insistence on local citizens’ universal civic rights and the values of liberty, equality, democracy and autonomy.The analysis shows citizenship education in the Hong Kong school system is more a locally-oriented cultural and political process than a transmission of a national ideology. Students learn their values, attitudes and perspectives by engaging and interacting with people within and beyond the school community. They acquire a liberal and democratic national identity which is distinct from that of pan-Chinese state-nationalism in mainland China.The book is thus both a case study of Hong Kong and an analysis of change in the relationship of education, citizenship and national identity in the contemporary world.
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Despite or perhaps because of globalisation and internationalisation in the contemporary world, the role of education has become more significant in nation formation. However, whereas in the past its function was to create homogeneity and assimilation, today it must deal with diversity and plurality.
Les mer
''This study has much to recommend to educators involved with citizenship and moral education from different countries. It gives empirical evidence that citizenship education can be both democratic and national, providing a conceptual analysis of the framework as well as methods of national citizenship education in Hong Kong.'' - Dr. Tatiana Golikova “The book deals effectively with the holistic development of citizenship education in Hong Kong and impressively identifies elements of democratic national citizenship which are intertwined with de-contextualized ethno-cultural Chinese nationalism. It provides inspiration for citizenship education for national citizenship. Thus, it comes highly recommended and is certain to contribute to the development of research in this field.” - Ping Ren, Journal of Social Science Education, 12:4 (2013), 58-59. “This book is in more than one sense inspiring and unusual. It is inspiring because, firstly, its main theme captures well the essence of a ‘dual purpose’ citizenship education in Hong Kong […] Secondly, this book provides an unusual yet long-awaited case study of Hong Kong’s secondary schools.” - Cheuk-Hang Leung, Asian Affairs (November 2013)“Even with its focus on Hong Kong, the book provides a very useful introduction to and interesting discourse about the dynamics and complexity of interplay between national and local citizenships in a globalized context. As the world becomes increasingly interconnected and interdependent, this discourse points the way for similar future research on such interplay in other societies and cultures. The book should interest readers of diverse backgrounds across the fields of sociology, citizenship education and China studies.”- Wing-Wah Law, Pacific Affairs, 86:4 (December 2013) 905-907.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781443835312
Publisert
2012-04-04
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Høyde
212 mm
Bredde
148 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
260

Forfatter
Byram Mike
Pak-Sang, Lai

Biographical note

Pak-sang Lai was a secondary school teacher and then a lecturer in teacher education, joining the Hong Kong Institute of Education in 1995 until retirement. He has taught and researched public affairs and education, and now serves as expert consultant on public policy for education and on education in schools. He has published on reproduction politics in bilingual education.Michael Byram taught languages in secondary school and adult education. At Durham University since 1980, now Professor Emeritus, he has researched the education of linguistic minorities and foreign language education. His most recent book is From Foreign Language Education to Education for Intercultural Citizenship (Multilingual Matters) and he is the editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning.

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