Journal Articles
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
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- Hong Kong
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- before 1841
- 1841-1899
- 1900-1941
- 1941-1945
- 1945-1949
- 1950s
- 1960s
- 1970s
- 1980s
- 1990-1997.6
- 1997.7 onwards
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- 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]
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- English
- Journal Articles
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- 0046760X
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/8eedcddf
- 2010-09-08
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