In the face of heavy demand for private supplementary tutoring in basic education, the state seems to have adopted a consumerism model in the decentralised governance of mass tutoring, allowing students and parents to select for themselves course information, payment amounts and methods, tutoring dates and times, and physical conditions when buying services from registered cram schools in Hong Kong. In the study reported here, a 3-level cultural analysis of cram schools was conducted from 1998 to 2008 to examine the patterns of mass tuition trends in Hong Kong. The analysis investigated the impacts of such trends, or culture, upon youth values, and implications are drawn for policy making, educational reform, societal movements, and academic recommendations for further research.
面對課餘補習的極大需求，香港特區政府似乎採納以消費主義為本的分權管理模式，讓有需要的學生及家長自行考慮課程內容、收取的費用及收費方法、學習環境、補習日期及時間等條件，去選擇合宜的註冊補習社。通過三個層次的文化分析，本文旨在剖析補習社文化或風氣於1998年至2008年期間對青少年價值觀的影響，從而在管理政策、教育改革、社會運動及學術研究等多層面上提出建議。
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法治精神是文明社會的重要基石。香港、澳門和內地雖然各具不同社會背景和法律制度，但法律普及教育工作對三地未來法治精神的延續與傳承均十分重要。本文透過由香港青年協會進行的「穗港澳三地大學生法治意識比較研究」，從中了解並分析三地大學生的有關認知和態度。此外，文中亦嘗試就研究結果，提出未來三地法律普及教育發展的重要考慮方向。
The rule of law is the foundation of our civilized society. Although the social backgrounds and legal systems of Hong Kong, Macao, and mainland China differ greatly from one another, the promotion of legal education is highly significant to the continuity and inheritance of the rule of law. This article investigates and analyzes knowledge and attitudes of the awareness of rule of law among university students in Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Macao through a comparative study carried out by The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups. Derived from the research results, this article suggests some considerations regarding the development of promoting legal education in the three regions concerned.
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本文將回顧並分析亞洲地區及香港青少年網絡成癮的趨勢、各地處理青少年網絡成癮的介入方法，及導致青少年網絡成癮的危機因素；亦會探討預防青少年網絡成癮教育工作的重要性，並就此服務提出一些建議。
Youth Internet addiction has become a common problem among youth in Hong Kong. The authors explore Asian countries' strategies for handling youth Internet addiction and its contributing factors. They advocate preventive education as the most essential element to prevent youth Internet addiction.
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以273名內地大學生和368名香港大學生為被試比較了兩地學業倦怠的狀況及與其相關的個體因素。結果表明：內地大學生比香港大學生更外控，在學業倦怠量表上報告較少的衰竭感和譏誚態度，自我效能感上兩者無差異。內地大學生的外控性不能有效預測其學業倦怠，但兩地大學生的策略－情境匹配度以及主觀應對有效性，都能在內外控的基礎上，解釋較大比例的倦怠增益方差。
The current study explored student burnout and its predictors. Participants included 273 students on the mainland and 368 in Hong Kong. Results indicated that mainland students reported less exhaustion and cynicism than their Hong Kong counterparts, but the two groups did not show any differences in the professional efficacy dimension. Students from the mainland scored higher on external locus of control, but this did not contribute to predicting their burnout. For both groups of students, the matching of strategy to situation and the subjective judgement on coping effectiveness, in addition to locus of control, together explain the substantial incremental variance in burnout.
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Teaching is a female-dominated career in both Western and Eastern societies. While low salary and social status have been suggested by previous research as the main reasons, these cannot explain the phenomenon in Hong Kong where teachers enjoy high social status and salary. My Master of Psychology research will include samples of Hong Kong and Australian senior high school students, to contrast their gender stereotypes as measured by Bem's Sex-Role Inventory (Bem, 1981), and how these, along with their gender and gender role orientations, affect their views of what characterises a good primary and secondary teacher, likelihood to consider teaching as a career, self-efficacy, and interests in teaching.
The theoretical framework integrates Lent et al.'s Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT; 1994) and research on gender stereotyping. SCCT posits that self-efficacies predict individuals' interests and intentions to persist in a given domain, which has not yet been applied to the context of teaching career choice. Research on gender stereotyping predicts that gender and conformity to gender role norms significantly shape individuals' learning experiences, which, in turn, affects self-efficacy (Toker et al., 2007). Recent research in the Chinese context has found that males and females exhibit fewer and weaker traditional gendered stereotypes (Zhang, Norvilitis, & Jin, 2001).We may reasonably infer shifting conceptions of gender stereotypes, including those associated with teachers, across cultures or time.
In the present paper, I report on the pilot study results from 120 senior high school survey participants in Hong Kong. Factor analyses and measures of Cronbach's measure of internal consistency will first explore the structure of gender stereotyped characteristics. Multiple regression analysis will examine the contributions of student gender, gender stereotypes, self-efficacy, and interest in teaching, towards intentions to teach. These findings will have