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Hong Kong's community college policy was designed to promote social mobility, but did it work? This ethnography reveals how the policy led to distorted outcomes, with some students succeeding in getting a university transfer without really learning.
Over the last two decades, the Hong Kong government, as with governments in many societies, has taken an expansion of higher education as a strategy—a community college policy specifically—to equip young people with skills and knowledge for a new economy in tandem with promoting their social mobility. What seems overlooked is social nurturance could contradict social mobility when such an educational policy is implemented in a neo-liberal context. This book offers an ethnography on the learning of students at a community college in Hong Kong between 2005 and 2009 towards the goal of getting transferred to university; it illustrates how the community college policy could lead to distorted outcomes. In particular, the observation that some students could succeed in getting a transfer without really learning urges policy makers to recognise that inducing people with a demand for a bachelor’s degree qualification does not necessarily lead them to take learning seriously.
The Story Cookbook is a comprehensive collection of over 80 story-based activities. This easy-to-follow guide provides a treasure trove of techniques to apply and adapt. It is a must-read for consultants, educators, and leaders using storytelling for positive change.
This overview of cultural memory theories explores how communities establish their identity—a process now challenged by the digital turn. The book presents arguments by the most important memory theorists and describes the most significant forms of cultural memory.
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Many topical tasks of logical analysis, such as forming and testing hypotheses or searching for inconsistencies in reasoning, are often outside the scope of standard logic courses. This book demonstrates two simple mathematical systems that model reasoning and solve these tasks.
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Why do some people avidly engage with science while others hate it? This book explores the ‘science identities’ of diverse people through their life stories, providing strategies for educators and parents to foster and support a lifelong journey with science.
Using a variety of psychoanalytic and philosophical lenses, and using the Psychic River as a metaphor, Mathew asks the question of what it means “to learn” and “to teach”. He considers the joys and frustrations of lifelong learning, and what drives us to learn as we age.
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This book offers an application of Bourdieu’s framework to the under-examined experiences of community-college students seeking a second chance in Hong Kong. It explores how middle and working-class students see themselves and face academic challenges throughout their journey.
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