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Education in Hong Kong: Histories, mysteries and myths

  • Education in Hong Kong: Histories, mysteries and myths
  • History of Education, 36(1), 89-108, 2007
  • Routledge
  • 2007
    • Hong Kong
    • before 1841
    • 1841-1899
    • 1900-1941
    • 1941-1945
    • 1945-1949
    • 1950s
    • 1960s
    • 1970s
    • 1980s
    • 1990-1997.6
    • 1997.7 onwards
    • Pre-Primary Education
    • Primary Education
    • Secondary Education
    • Post-Secondary Education
    • Adult Education
  • This article analyses the varied characteristics of histories of education in Hong Kong and discusses the perspectives that an acquaintance with them can provide. Such a focus encourages consideration of the use of incomplete sources by historians of education, as well as attempts to make sense of past educational developments through periodization. The author adopts a periodization scheme associated with colonialism, which facilitates the identification of mysteries (questions derived from incomplete evidence) and the explanation of myths (answers based on incomplete evidence). He anticipates that a similar approach to other societies could stimulate similar insights into both mysteries and myths.
    [Copyright of History of Education is the property of Routledge. Full article may be available at the publisher's website:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00467600600851136]
    • English
  • Journal Articles
    • 0046760X
  • https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/8eedcddf
  • 2010-09-08

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