Negotiating teacher professionalism: Governmentality and education reform in Hong Kong

Negotiating teacher professionalism: Governmentality and education reform in Hong Kong

• Chee, Wai Chi Dept. of Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Ethnography and Education, 7(3), 327-344, 2012

Routledge

2012

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

Education Policy Governmentality Education Reform Governance and resistance Marketisation of education

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Unknown or Unspecified

This research investigates how the Hong Kong state controls and disciplines the education sector through the regulation and manipulation of discourses. The authoritative narratives are that some schools are failing the students and parents for not being able to provide quality education, and that these schools are not subject to public scrutiny while spending public money. This article seeks to understand the role of such narratives in neoliberal politics and the marketisation of education which lead to governance in the form of initiatives in school quality assurance mechanism; how different actors (Education Bureau, Professional Teachers' Union and individual teachers) are involved in the process; how they negotiate this governance of education; how such governance transforms the self-perception of teachers as well as the perception of teachers by others; and how teachers interpret, appropriate and resist such discursive power.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17457823.2012.717201]

• English

Journal Articles

• 17457823

• 10.1080/17457823.2012.717201

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/ad9555f3

2014-01-18