Identity, civic engagement, and learning about citizenship: University students’ experiences in Hong Kong

Identity, civic engagement, and learning about citizenship: University students’ experiences in Hong Kong

• Pan, Suyan The Education University of Hong Kong

Compare, 2019

Routledge

2019

• N Students & Student Services
  • NC Charactieristics & Conditions of Students; Opinion & Attitudes of Students, Problems of Adjustment

Identity Civic Engagement Citizenship Higher Education University Students

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

Drawing on two surveys conducted before and after the 2014 Umbrella Movement, this paper discusses the dynamics of how Hong Kong (HK) university students constructed their own ideals of citizenship. The former survey reveals that HK university students’ ideas about citizenship were mainly associated with their visceral sense of HK belonging. They aspired to social movements as a site for learning and exercising citizenship. However, the findings of the later survey show that students’ sense of HK pride, identity, attachment, and interest in voting were in decline. Such changes were partially due to their feeling of political exclusion and disappointment, and partially due to their unpreparedness to make informed decisions or judgement in the contested political sphere. I argue that students’ experiences mirrored unresolved problems in HK politics and citizenship education, and have implications for the civic role of HK higher education alongside the global wave of youth activism. Copyirght © 2019 British Association for International and Comparative Education.

• English

Journal Articles

• 03057925

• 10.1080/03057925.2019.1687286

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/72779dc3

2020-04-27