Journal Articles
The deficit representation of youth at different levels of curriculum-making: A case study on the liberal studies curriculum in Hong Kong
- The deficit representation of youth at different levels of curriculum-making: A case study on the liberal studies curriculum in Hong Kong
- Discourse, 33(4), 529-544, 2012
- Routledge
- 2012
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- Hong Kong
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- 1997.7 onwards
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- Secondary Education
- This study explores whether the deficit approach to understanding youth, which has been widely critiqued in contemporary youth studies, could still be a dominant paradigm in an emerging curriculum which emphasises multiple-perspective thinking. The analysis compares the representations of youth in selected reference sources at different levels of curriculum- making of the liberal studies (LS) secondary school curriculum in Hong Kong. These include: (1) the official website of the curriculum, (2) the textbooks and (3) the teachers' verbal accounts. The findings indicate that the curriculum contents at the institutional level (the LS official website) do not really favour a deficit representation of youth, but that the contents at the program level and at the classroom level do intensify that deficit representation. The findings shed light on the discourse of youth in education regimes and inform future research.[Copyright of Discourse is the property of Routledge. Full article may be available at the publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2012.692960]
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- English
- Journal Articles
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- 01596306
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/d4867ca3
- 2014-01-18
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