|
Showing 1 - 6 of
6 matches in All Departments
This book presents a comprehensive account of the educational
experiences of community college students in Hong Kong, analyzed
through a theoretical lens that intersects sociological theories of
inequality, including Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital. The
student narratives featured in this book reveal the interweaving
personal, academic, and professional considerations and challenges
affecting their individual choices in the pursuit of higher
education. Chapters also reveal why, despite the relative expansion
of educational opportunities, the class gap in higher education
persists.
This book presents a comprehensive account of the educational
experiences of community college students in Hong Kong, analyzed
through a theoretical lens that intersects sociological theories of
inequality, including Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital. The
student narratives featured in this book reveal the interweaving
personal, academic, and professional considerations and challenges
affecting their individual choices in the pursuit of higher
education. Chapters also reveal why, despite the relative expansion
of educational opportunities, the class gap in higher education
persists.
Issues such as the high rate of grade retention and the low
completion rate of basic education in Macao have drawn a lot of
public attention. More at issue is the quality of education in
Macao. While blame for academic failure is usually laid on
individual students, in this book Yi-Lee Wong and Chi-Fong Chan
seek to provide a structural explanation by investigating the
operation of the modern education of Macao. Referring extensively
to Macao's colonial past, Wong and Chan highlight how colonialism's
historical legacy shapes the characteristics of the existing
education system in Macao; specifically how it has both generated
and sustained a system whereby privately run schools are publicly
funded. In such a system, private schools can get government
funding without being effectively monitored. Such schools are free
to carry out school-specific policies (including policies of grade
retention and teacher hiring), teach an exclusive school-specific
curriculum, and use unique school-specific standards to assess
students. Despite the 1999 handover of Macao from Portugal to
China, and regardless of the great efforts made to improve
education by Macao's SAR government since then, the situation
remains more or less unchanged. The authors argue that Macao's
colonial history poses huge challenges to educational reform. To
make this case, Wong and Chan analyse thorny issues facing the
Macao SAR government, concentrating on schools, teachers and
students. In their analysis, they draw on a variety of empirical
evidence, such as historical material, secondary documents,
statistics (including results from Programme for International
Student Assessment on OECD countries), and updated empirical
findings from surveys; as well as ethnographic studies on
contemporary Macao. In the concluding chapter, Wong and Chan use
the case of Macao to urge policy makers to rethink the promised
societal benefits of the privatization of education suggested in
the dominant neo-liberal discourse.
This book is the second volume of a qualitative study of social
mobility over three generations in post-war Hong Kong. The family
histories and work-life histories of eighty-nine respondents who
were middle-aged, middle-class parents -- teachers, managers and
their spouses -- were collected between 1996 and 1997. This book
examines the processes of social mobility in order to elucidate how
social mobility is generated at the micro level and it investigates
the consequences of social mobility to show how the system of
social stratification can be reproduced or changed over
generations.
This book is the first volume of a qualitative study of social
mobility over three generations in post-war Hong Kong. The family
histories and work-life histories of eighty-nine respondents who
were middle-aged middle-class parents -- teachers, managers, and
their spouses -- were collected between 1996 and 1997. This book
examines the processes of social mobility in order to elucidate how
social mobility is generated at the micro level and it investigates
the consequences of social mobility with a view to illuminating how
the system of social stratification could be reproduced or changed
over generations.
There are two major aims for this book: first, to make a
contribution to the academic debates; and second, to urge frontline
INGO practitioners to reflect critically on their practices.
Referring to the practices of CEP in reforming the system of higher
education in Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova, this book seeks to
engage in two major debates: one, over the role of INGO in social
development; and two, over the relationship between INGO and
Imperialism. In the discussion, the author highlighted the elements
that are usually overlooked in the existing literature, namely,
contradiction and contingency. Data is in the form of my first-hand
experience of working as a university lecturer teaching in several
universities in Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova, and as a CEP
visiting fellow actively involved in its activities. The data poses
challenges to the development logic of INGO and the logic of
Imperialism; this provides an interesting basis for a provocative
discussion. Since data also offers an interesting evaluation of
CEP, they reveal not only difficulties facing CEP in bringing
changes to the former-Soviet countries but also common problems of
the system of higher education in this region.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
|