Journal Articles
Cultural challenges in Hong Kong to the implementation of effective general education
- Cultural challenges in Hong Kong to the implementation of effective general education
- Teaching in Higher Education, 17(2), 223-230, 2012
- Routledge
- 2012
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- Hong Kong
- United States
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- 1997.7 onwards
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- Post-Secondary Education
- Hong Kong's higher education system is undergoing an enormous change. At great cost, higher education and the school systems that feed into it are moving from a three-year university system that favored early specialization within a discipline and very few conversations across disciplines to a four-year university system to be fully implemented with the beginning class of 2012. This move will provide a framework in which disciplinary study is grounded in broader knowledge that encourages self-directed learning, critical thinking, and an understanding of the role of individual in society. So what are the cultural challenges to attaining these far-reaching goals? This essay attempts to delineate some of them, make some comparisons to the US, and also present some suggestions for meeting the challenges.[Copyright of Teaching in Higher Education is the property of Routledge. Full article may be available at the publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2012.658565]
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- English
- Journal Articles
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- 13562517
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/0c4f0863
- 2014-01-18
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