Democratizing higher education through community college: Some qualitative evidences from an East Asian entrepreneurial city

Democratizing higher education through community college: Some qualitative evidences from an East Asian entrepreneurial city

• Tang, Hei Hang Hayes The Education University of Hong Kong
• Dang, Beatrice Y. Y. The University of Hong Kong

The 2019 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting: Leveraging Education Research in a “Post-Truth” Era: Multimodal Narratives to Democratize Evidence (2019: Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada)

• Q Philosophy of Education, Educational System & School At Different Levels
  • QE Post-Secondary Education

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

Despite the prevailing “educational desire” in Confucian societies, Hong Kong, an East Asian entrepreneurial city, saw its access to higher education having been curiously restricted. Community colleges were therefore initiated by the government in 2000s to democratize the higher education sector. Purposively sampling and interviewing college graduates from different cohorts, social class and gender, this research examines the complexities of college processes and multi-dimensional notions of student success and access to higher learning in view of greater social justice. Using Bourdieu’s and Sen’s conceptual frameworks, it adds to the literature novel analytical perspective and advances the thesis about social inequalities and higher education. This paper illustrates how community college can elucidate social class disadvantages in highly competitive education systems. Copyright © 2019 AERA.

Paper presented at the 2019 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting: Leveraging Education Research in a “Post-Truth” Era: Multimodal Narratives to Democratize Evidence, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada.

• English

Conference Papers

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/f46ef0c9

2020-02-04