The making of a colonial school: A study of language policies and practices in nineteenth-century Hong Kong

The making of a colonial school: A study of language policies and practices in nineteenth-century Hong Kong

• Evans, Stephen English Dept., Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Language and Education, 22(6), 345-362, 2008

Routledge

2008

• P Social Context of Education
  • PA History of Hong Kong Education
    • PAA History of Hong Kong Education (Before 1945)
• F Learning & Teaching
  • FE Medium of Instruction, Language of Teaching, Bi-& Multilingual Education, Problems of Bilingualism, Code-mixing & Code-switching
• G Curriculum, Teaching & Learning: Specific Disciplines
  • GB English Language
• R Educational Policy & Administration
  • RC Educational Planning & Decision Making Process, Educational Administration

Educational History Foreign Countries English (Second Language) Second Language Instruction Educational Policy Language Planning Language Attitudes Language Usage Chinese Language Role Foreign Policy Teaching Methods Second Language Learning Educational Change Bilingual Education Language of Instruction Hong Kong

• Hong Kong

• 1841-1899

• Secondary Education

This article examines colonial language policies and practices at the government Central School, Hong Kong - the so-called Eton of the East - in the second half of the nineteenth century. The article, which draws on a range of unpublished primary sources, seeks to enhance our knowledge of an important episode in Hong Kong's educational history and, in so doing, illuminate our understanding of British attitudes towards the learning and use of English in the empire. The article is divided into three main sections. The first section analyses the nature and purposes of the scheme to 'centralise' government-sponsored English teaching in a flagship school in the early 1860s. The second section investigates the roles of the English and Chinese languages in the colonial curriculum and the approaches to the teaching of English adopted by the school's founding Headmaster, Frederick Stewart. The final section examines the reform of the Central School in the late nineteenth century.
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• English

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• 10.2167/le744.0

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2010-09-27