Critical reflections on preschool vouchers in Hong Kong and Taiwan: Translating the notion of freedom to choose

Critical reflections on preschool vouchers in Hong Kong and Taiwan: Translating the notion of freedom to choose

• Lee, I Fang The Hong Kong Institute of Education
• Tseng, Chao Ling The Hong Kong Institute of Education

2008

• Q Philosophy of Education, Educational System & School At Different Levels
  • QB Pre-school Education, Child Caring Facilities, Maternal & Infantile Health Facilities
• P Social Context of Education
  • PB Comparative Education
• R Educational Policy & Administration
  • RC Educational Planning & Decision Making Process, Educational Administration

Educational Policy and Management Early Childhood Education

• Hong Kong
• Taiwan

• 1997.7 onwards

• Pre-Primary Education

Vouchers and school choice discourses have been translated, reassembled, and made intelligible in different localities, such as Taiwan and Hong Kong, as tactics in education reforms to ensure equality and quality. This paper presents the findings of a comparative research study that aims to investigate the effects of preschool vouchers in Taiwan and Hong Kong. I argue that laced within global and local circulations of educational choice and voucher discourses are notions of marketization and privatization. In that, I seek to understand how preschool voucher systems in Taiwan and Hong Kong work to create a normative socio-cultural administration to (re)-shape, regulate, and construct reasonable/desirable modes of thinking and acting.

Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of American Educational Research Association: Research on Schools, Neighborhoods and Communities: Toward Civic Responsibility

• English

Conference Papers

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/b579dc49

2015-03-17