Re-examining teaching and learning in citizenship education: A tale of two Chinese cities

Re-examining teaching and learning in citizenship education: A tale of two Chinese cities

• Law, Wing Wah The University of Hong Kong
• Xu, Shuqin Sun Yat-Sen University

Journal of Curriculum Studies, (0), - , 2019

Routledge

2019

• P Social Context of Education
  • PC Society & Education
• P Social Context of Education
  • PE Law & Education ; Politics & Education
• P Social Context of Education
  • PB Comparative Education

Citizenship Education Pedagogies Indoctrination Inquiry-Based Approach

• Hong Kong
• Guangzhou

• 1997.7 onwards

• Unknown or Unspecified

This article compares and re-examines citizenship education (CE) teaching and learning in Hong Kong (HK) and Guangzhou (GZ), China. It questions two stereotypical perceptions-that China schools indoctrinate students, and that CE lessons in HK are more open than those in mainland China. Data are drawn from some 30 lesson observations, 1,200 questionnaires, and 80 teacher/student interviews from six sampled HK and GZ schools. The study used NVivo to examine qualitative data, and employed hierarchical linear modelling with the help of SPSS and AMOS to analyse quantitative data. The findings suggest both cities are similar in terms of teaching/learning CE, due to globalization and domestic changes, and have similar CE conditions more conducive to open pedagogies (e.g., inquiry-based approaches) than indoctrination. HK's greater socioeconomic openness does not ensure its CE is more open than GZ's, for pedagogical and non-pedagogical reasons.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 00220272

• 10.1080/00220272.2019.1605410

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/a131abe2

2020-08-26