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Tsao, Jack; Hardy, Ian; Lingard, Bob – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2021
This article provides a critical sociological examination of how Hong Kong youth's relationship towards Chinese identity and China is negotiated vis-a-vis schooling, language policy, and the broader Hong Kong postcolonial condition, and how this mediates these students' aspirational imaginations regarding possibilities of studying and working in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Social Change, Language Planning
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Cabau, Béatrice – Athens Journal of Education, 2014
In 2004, i.e. seven years after the retrocession of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China (PRC), the then Chief Executive aimed to promote the former British colony as 'Asia's world city'. The same year, the University Grants Committee echoed this ambition by envisaging the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) as becoming an…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Aspiration, Expectation, Foreign Countries
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Kutnick, Peter; Zhu, Zhiyong; Chan, Cecilia; Chan, Rosanna Yuen-Yan; Lee, Betty Pok-Yee; Lai, Veronica Ka Wai – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2018
School-based pipelines/routes for university and technical engineering education are recognised as important for economic development and the high-school years are critical for shaping students' career aspirations and attitudes. This study examined a range of attitudes/experiences on the aspirations of secondary students to pursue engineering…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Engineering Education, Student Motivation, Secondary School Students