Quality assurance, language policy, and civic participation: A paradoxical argument on the educational values of Hong Kong

Quality assurance, language policy, and civic participation: A paradoxical argument on the educational values of Hong Kong

Values education for citizens in the new century

• Tang, Wai Yan The Hong Kong Institue of Education

• Cheng, Roger H.M.
• Lee, John C.K.
• Lo, Leslie N.K.

Hong Kong

The Chinese University Press

2006

• R Educational Policy & Administration
  • RF School Supervision, Accountability & Inspection: Education Indicators, Privatization of School
• R Educational Policy & Administration
  • RG Education Reforms

Educational Policy and Management Secondary Education

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Unknown or Unspecified

To argue against the current discourse on the language policy of Hong Kong, which has mainly focused on economic rationalism, a more holistic view with the educational value of language with respect to one’s civic duty in light of dialogic constructivism will be suggested. It proposes that the quality of a language as resources has to have something to do with the formation of one’s self and life history, the identification of a collectivity where one’s identity is appropriated, and the proliferation of a potential dialogic environment where creativity emerges in contrast to the current notion of a technical mentality of language use which leads to a closure of meaning making in our language policy. And it is towards such quality, which is based on the kind of value where identity, community, and the potential of a hermeneutic situation play fair that enhances understanding, this paper is driving.
[Copyright © 2006 The Chinese University Press.]

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2015-05-18