Deliberating values for global citizenship: A study of Singapore's social studies and Hong Kong's liberal studies curricula

Deliberating values for global citizenship: A study of Singapore's social studies and Hong Kong's liberal studies curricula

Educating for the 21st century: Perspectives, policies and practices from around the world

• Alviar, Theresa Patricia B The Education University of Hong Kong
• Baildon, Mark C.

• Choo, Suzanne
• Sawch, Deb
• Villanueva, Alison
• Vinz, Ruth

Singapore

Springer

2017

• G 課程與教學:個別教學範疇
  • GJ 跨課程科目
• P 香港教育各層面與外地之比較
  • PB 香港教育各層面與外地之比較

• Hong Kong
• Singapore

• 1997.7 onwards

• 未指定或無法歸類

This chapter examines the role and nature of values in civic education curricula in the Asian global cities of Singapore and Hong Kong. Using a qualitative, comparative case study approach, we situate civic education in broader contexts and analyze the ways values are represented in Singapore’s Social Studies curriculum and the Liberal Studies curriculum in Hong Kong. Through our analysis of syllabus documents and broader societal discourses, we found several common core values across the two settings that simultaneously represented nationalist and global neoliberal discourses of citizenship. Rather than emphasizing political or civic concerns, curricular and societal discourses worked together to underscore self-management and the creation of orderly national societies attractive to global capital and necessary for economic growth in a competitive global economy. However, we found distinctions in each syllabus regarding approaches in values instruction. Documents in Singapore emphasized teaching values through transmissive methods, whereas, in Hong Kong, the Liberal Studies curriculum advocated a more deliberative pedagogy. The chapter poses broader questions regarding narrow, utilitarian forms of citizenship and possibilities for reimagining more critical forms of citizenship education in a globalized world.
[Copyright © 2017 Springer Science+Business Media Singapore.]

• 英文

章節

• 9789811016714

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/tc/bibs/a63472a1

2016-12-09