The effects of political education and critical thinking on Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese University students' national attitudes

The effects of political education and critical thinking on Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese University students' national attitudes

• Fairbrother, Gregory P. School of Foundations in Educations, Hong Kong Institute of Education

British Journal of Sociology of Education, 24(5), 605-620, 2003

Routledge

2003

• P Social Context of Education
  • PB Comparative Education
• G Curriculum, Teaching & Learning: Specific Disciplines
  • GF Humanities & Arts
• N Students & Student Services
  • NC Charactieristics & Conditions of Students; Opinion & Attitudes of Students, Problems of Adjustment

College Students -- Psychology Political Science -- Study & Teaching Critical Thinking Patriotism Hong Kong China

• Hong Kong
• Macau

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

In a context of patriotic education in Mainland China and depoliticised civic education in colonial Hong Kong, this article inquires into the nature of student resistance to state hegemonic political socialisation and examines the effects of critical thinking, as a form of resistance, on students' patriotism and nationalism. With data from questionnaires completed by 535 Hong Kong and Mainland university students, analyses of relationships among perceptions of political socialisation, critical thinking dispositions, and national attitudes reveal that critical thinking mediates the state-intended effects of schooling on political attitudes. The article concludes with a reconceptualisation of the concept of resistance.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0142569032000127161]

• English

Journal Articles

• 01425692

• 10.1080/0142569032000127161

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/92641335

2010-09-27