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From 'civilising the young' to a 'dead-end job': Gender, teaching, and the politics of colonial rule in Hong Kong (1841-1970)
- From 'civilising the young' to a 'dead-end job': Gender, teaching, and the politics of colonial rule in Hong Kong (1841-1970)
- History of Education, 41(4), 495-514, 2012
- Routledge
- 2012
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- Hong Kong
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- 1841-1899
- 1900-1941
- 1941-1945
- 1945-1949
- 1950s
- 1960s
- 1970s
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- Primary Education
- The feminisation of teaching is an important topic in education and gender studies. Discussions have been enriched by comparative and international studies as well as a gendering perspective in which a complicated view of the role of the state has emerged. In colonial Hong Kong, although the government was limited in its support of teacher training, its strategic control was not ineffective. Through regulating the teaching force, the colonial regime was instrumental in training women to help civilise the young and in creating a dead end job - that of a 'primary school teacher'. It also constantly (re) constructed the nature and role of 'Chinese teacher' and 'Chinese women'. By revealing some seldom-explored strategies and disrupting the fixed meanings of 'Chinese teacher', 'Chinese women', and 'primary school teacher', this paper unravels the intervention and (re) invention of the colonial regime in the teaching occupation and probes their implications for a patriarchal society.[Copyright of History of Education is the property of Routledge. Full article may be available at the publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0046760X.2011.635603]
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- English
- Journal Articles
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- 0046760X
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/70cfc1bb
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