Locating self in the world: Elementary school children in Japan, Macau and Hong Kong

Locating self in the world: Elementary school children in Japan, Macau and Hong Kong

• Parmenter, Lynne Fukushima University, Japan
• Lam, Carol Hong Kong Baptist University
• Seto, Flora CPU, Macau University
• Tomita, Yuichi Fukushima University, Japan

Compare: A Journal of Comparative Education, 30(2), 133-144, 2000

Routledge

2000

• A Human Growth & Development
  • AC Socialization, Self-concept, Self-esteem, Identity, Affective, Emotional, Psycho-social & Moral Development
• P Social Context of Education
  • PB Comparative Education

Citizenship Education Educational Policy Elementary Education Foreign Countries Grade 4 Grade 6 Interviews Principals Questionnaires Student Attitudes World Views Hong Kong Japan Macao

• Japan
• Macau
• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Primary Education

In the so-called 'global age', the issue of how children learn to locate themselves in the world is an important one. Working from a foundation of theories related to globalisation, identity development and citizenship education, this paper describes the findings of a research project which explored elementary school children's geographical and affective location of the self in Japan, Macau and Hong Kong. Analysis and discussion of Japanese education policy is then presented in an attempt to explain the finding that Japanese children are far less likely than their counterparts in Hong Kong and Macau to locate themselves in an international sphere.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 03057925

• 10.1080/03057920050034084

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2010-09-24