The influence of confucianism: A narrative study of Hong Kong teachers' understanding and practices of school guidance and counselling

The influence of confucianism: A narrative study of Hong Kong teachers' understanding and practices of school guidance and counselling

• Hue, Ming Tak Educational Psychology, Counselling and Learning Needs, Hong Kong Institute of Education

British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 36(3), 303-316, 2008

Routledge

2008

• P Social Context of Education
  • PG Mass Media & Education, Mass Media & Children & Youth
• N Students & Student Services
  • NH Guidance, Counselling & School Social Work

Asian Culture Guidance Programs Confucianism Foreign Countries School Guidance Teaching Methods Secondary Schools Teacher Attitudes Interviews Cultural Awareness Hong Kong

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Secondary Education

School guidance seeks to promote the whole person growth of students. It is regarded as an integral part of an educational programme. In Hong Kong secondary schools, a team of teachers are responsible for school guidance. This article examines how guidance teachers made sense of their caring work in general and specifically the counselling services they offered to students. With the use of a narrative analysis and personal experience methods, the study explores the experience of guidance teachers in counselling. Twelve in-service teachers who had enrolled in the Postgraduate Diploma in Education programme at the Hong Kong Institute of Education were interviewed. The influence of the Chinese philosophy of Confucianism, emerging as a theme from the data, was prominent, as its key principles were incorporated into the teachers' personal systems of counselling. The findings illuminate the influence of Chinese culture in Hong Kong schools. Implications for the promotion of culturally responsive approaches to counselling and culturally competent practices for helping are discussed.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 03069885

• 10.1080/03069880802088929

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/f247063f

2010-09-27