Between Britain and China: Hong Kong’s citizenship education policy paradigm

Between Britain and China: Hong Kong’s citizenship education policy paradigm

• Fairbrother, Gregory Paul The Hong Kong Institute of Education

Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 8(1), 25-42, 2006

Routledge

2006

• R Educational Policy & Administration
  • RC Educational Planning & Decision Making Process, Educational Administration
• P Social Context of Education
  • PB Comparative Education

Comparative Analysis Social Policy Citizenship Education Studies

• Hong Kong
• Britain
• China

• 1997.7 onwards

• Unknown or Unspecified

This article offers a new explanation for considerable continuity in citizenship education policy in Hong Kong despite the change from British to Chinese sovereignty. Focusing on the form by which citizenship education is carried out and the instruments by which it has been promoted, the article argues that citizenship education has been both enabled and constrained by a distinctive policy paradigm developed out of traditional Chinese moral education, a British ambivalence toward political education, and a reaction against Mainland Chinese Communist political education. A comparison of citizenship education policy in China, Britain, and Hong Kong reveals that a key aspect of this paradigm is a fear of indoctrination, which has been made explicit in public sentiment, policy debates, and policy programs.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 13876988

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