A search for rational nationalistic education in Hong Kong

A search for rational nationalistic education in Hong Kong

• Leung, Yan Wing Hong Kong Institute of Education
• Print, Murray University of Sydney

1998

Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE). Conference (1998: Adelaide)

• G Curriculum, Teaching & Learning: Specific Disciplines
  • GF Humanities & Arts

Citizenship Education Critical Thinking Curriculum Development Foreign Countries Models Nationalism Secondary Education Teaching Methods China Hong Kong

• Hong Kong

• 1990-1997.6
• 1997.7 onwards

• Secondary Education

Civic education has been idealized and assigned the mission of preparing critical thinking, responsible, participating, multidimensional citizens. But on the other hand, civic education is also charged with the responsibility of moralizing the citizens into characters like punctuality, obedience, docility, deference . It is also used to serve the function of nationalistic education: Instilling the sense of national identity , loyalty to the nation state and patriotism.
Many Asian countries have strong elements of nationalistic education in their civic education . In 1996, one year before the return of sovereignty of Hong Kong to Chinas, a new official Guidelines on Civic Education in Schools (1996), proposing a curriculum framework with equal emphasis on human rights education, education for democracy, education for rule of law, nationalistic education, global education and education for critical thinking was introduced by the Education Department, which is to be implemented in schools starting from September of 1996. After 1 July, 1997, there was a very strong pressure from the society, asking for more nationalistic education and more schools were taking the initiative to implement nationalistic education.
Does the the mission of civic education : preparing critical thinking, responsible, participating, multidimensional citizens, contradict with that of nationalistic education : instilling the sense of national identity , loyalty to the nation state and patriotism ? This paper attempts to construct a framework to study (1) whether there are contradiction and (2)whether the practice of nationalistic education in schools is different from that of civic education.
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Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the AustralianAssociation for Research in Education, 29 November - 3 December 1998,Adelaide. Conference theme: Research in Education: Does it Count?.

• English

Conference Papers

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2010-11-25