Schooling in Hong Kong, youth aspirations, and the contesting of Chinese identity

Schooling in Hong Kong, youth aspirations, and the contesting of Chinese identity

• Tsao, Jack The University of Hong Kong
• Hardy, Ian The University of Queensland
• Lingard, Bob Australian Catholic University

British Journal of Sociology of Education, 42(2), 196-212, 2021

Routledge

2021

• A Human Growth & Development
  • AC Socialization, Self-concept, Self-esteem, Identity, Affective, Emotional, Psycho-social & Moral Development

Youth Aspirations Bourdieu Chinese Identity English as Medium of Instruction (EMI) Transborder

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Secondary Education

This article provides a critical sociological examination of how Hong Kong youth's relationship towards Chinese identity and China is negotiated vis-a-vis schooling, language policy, and the broader Hong Kong postcolonial condition, and how this mediates these students' aspirational imaginations regarding possibilities of studying and working in mainland China. Through focus group interviews with middle-class senior secondary school students studying in English as medium of instruction (EMI) Hong Kong government schools, we highlight the conflicted relationships students had towards China, which is embedded within historical memory, but complicated by the contrasting values inherent in Hong Kong as a global financial hub and neoliberal node. Despite the school's active policies promoting Chinese cultural identity, deep ambivalences associated with Chinese sociopolitical values affected aspirational capacity. Furthermore, language policy and language acquisition are implicated in the formation of Hong Kong students' spatiotemporal aspirations towards China. Copyright © 2021 Routledge.

• English

Journal Articles

• 01425692

• 10.1080/01425692.2021.1882836

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2022-04-20