Education in Hong Kong: Histories, mysteries and myths

Education in Hong Kong: Histories, mysteries and myths

• Sweeting, Anthony

History of Education, 36(1), 89-108, 2007

Routledge

2007

• P Social Context of Education
  • PA History of Hong Kong Education

Foreign Countries Educational History Educational Change Politics of Education Government Role Foreign Policy Misconceptions Hong Kong

• 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.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00467600600851136]

• English

Journal Articles

• 0046760X

• 10.1080/00467600600851136

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2010-09-08