Youth in a global world: Attitudes towards globalization and global citizenship among university students in Hong Kong

Youth in a global world: Attitudes towards globalization and global citizenship among university students in Hong Kong

• Chui, Wing Hong School of Social Work and Social Policy, University of Queensland
• Leung, Elliot W. Y.

Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 34(1), 107-124, 2014

Routledge

2014

• B Human Behaviour
  • BB Interests, Attitudes & Values

Global Citizenship Youth and Globalization Attitudes Toward Globalization University Students Hong Kong Cosmopolitanism 2nd-language Willingness Communicate Education Religion Education & Educational Research

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

Despite the wealth of theoretical literature on globalization and global citizenship, empirical studies on the topic are lacking, especially in the context of pedagogical needs in relation to global citizenship education. In order to address this gap, a study was conducted in Hong Kong to investigate the attitudes of university students towards various dimensions of globalization and global citizenship. The initial results indicate that Hong Kong university students are generally quite aware of globalization's impact on the economy and personal consumption choices and that while there is considerable apathy towards international affairs, there is also a great interest in cross-cultural service learning opportunities that is not being met by the available programmes. Moreover, this study finds almost no association between age, gender, and religion and any of the measured dependent variables on attitudes towards globalization and global citizenship, the only exception being the factor of past intercultural experiences, where a significant difference in measured attitudes was found between respondents who had and respondents who had not participated in such experiences before. Explanations of the findings and the implications of findings for policy and future research are discussed.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 02188791

• 10.1080/02188791.2013.810143

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/879aca9b

2014-12-19