Journal Articles
The education commission and continuing education in Hong Kong: Policy rhetoric and the prospects for reform
EdLink- The education commission and continuing education in Hong Kong: Policy rhetoric and the prospects for reform
- Studies in Continuing Education, 25(2), 185-209, 2003
- Routledge
- 2003
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- Hong Kong
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- 1997.7 onwards
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- Adult Education
- In the process of examining the recent and, especially, post-Handover, contributions that the Hong Kong Education Commission (EC) has made to policy concerning Continuing Education (CE) in the Special Administrative Region, the authors of this article were drawn into discussion of three underlying issues. These include the issue of conceptual clarity with regard to 'continuing education' and the operational implications of the local adoption of the fashionable worldwide mantra of 'lifelong learning'. They necessarily become involved in the need to distinguish between policy rhetoric, often employed in the form of Confucian-like exhortation, and practical applications of specific recommendations. They consider the extent to which the new polices have been implemented. While their analysis of policy process is, in an important sense, Hong Kong specific, it raises questions of international interest and concern, and this is probably most clearly manifested in the case study they offer of different arguments and proposals about the funding of CE. [Copyright of Studies in Continuing Education is the property of Routledge. Full article may be available at the publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0158037032000131529]
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- English
- Journal Articles
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- 0158037X
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/0ec1bca6
- 2010-09-27
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