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Sankey, Derek – 1999
This paper contends that classrooms should be safe places for students and their teachers to be wrong, suggesting that this concept should provide the mainspring for educational reform in Hong Kong and in other places in the world. It notes that education in Hong Kong is harsh and has a tendency to label students; for the majority of students,…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classrooms, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Comber, Barbara, Ed.; Simpson, Anne, Ed. – 2001
This book brings together accounts of educators who have sought to make a difference in the lives of their students through literacy education--from university classrooms in the United States, England, and South Africa, to policy and curriculum development in Singapore and Australia. The literacy classrooms explored in the book range from the…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Classroom Environment, Comparative Education, Curriculum Development
Yeung, Alexander Seeshing – 2003
Researchers have assumed that global self-esteem (often labeled as general self-concept), being a general aggregate of perceptions of the self, is content free. Recent research has, however, shown that responses to self-esteem survey items are influenced by the context in which the respondents are asked to make their responses--a chameleon effect.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Context Effect, Correlation

Lacy, Fiona J.; Sheehan, Barry A. – Higher Education, 1997
A study examined aspects of college faculty's satisfaction with their jobs across eight nations (Australia, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Mexico, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States) and the implications for governance and administration. Results indicate that factors related to work environment (university atmosphere, morale, sense of community,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Collegiality, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries

Ho, Judy; Crookall, David – System, 1995
Basic thinking regarding certain aspects of learner autonomy is presented as well as certain cultural traits that may impede the promotion of autonomy. The use of large-scale simulation can create a learning environment that promotes autonomy. It is concluded that concrete acts of taking responsibility imbue the learner with a sense of autonomy.…
Descriptors: Chinese Culture, Conflict Resolution, Cultural Influences, Culture Conflict

Green, Christopher; Evans, Stephen – Hong Kong Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2000
Reports data from the initial stage of a large-scale, multi-method survey of the current use of Chinese and English in the professional workplace in Hong Kong. Results indicate that reading and writing in English are demanded frequently in the professional Hong Kong workplace, but that English appears to play a less important role in workplace…
Descriptors: Chinese, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Usage
Yum, Jessie C. K.; Kember, David; Siaw, Irene – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2005
A characteristic shared by the majority of adult students is that they are undertaking part-time study. For these adult learners one of the major difficulties is how to find time for their study. This paper reports the coping mechanisms that part-time adult students adopt to meet the additional demands that study puts on their existing commitments…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Life, Time Management, Adult Learning
Leung, Frederick Koon Shing – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2005
In this paper, characteristics of mathematics classrooms in the East Asian countries of Hong Kong and Japan are discussed based on an analysis of the data of the TIMSS 1999 Video Study. The data shows that although students in these East Asian countries did not talk a lot in the classroom, they were exposed to more instructional content. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Education, Classroom Techniques
Choi, Pik Lin; Tang, Sylvia Yee Fan – Teacher Development, 2005
Beginning teachers encounter new challenges as the role system in contemporary society has become more and more demanding. By means of the life history method, role management strategies of four Hong Kong beginning teachers employed to cope with role demands and intra-role conflicts were located in their biographical, workplace and wider…
Descriptors: Socialization, Biographies, Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers
Honig, Alice S. – 1977
This speech presents observations, made on a trip in June 1976, of the aesthetic environments of children in China, Japan, and Hong Kong. Home, school and day care environments are compared in terms of living and play space, room decor, the presence of art and toys, dramatic play and performance, music, nature and outdoor appreciation, food and…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art, Asian Studies, Chinese Culture

Kember, David; Gow, Lyn – Studies in Higher Education, 1991
This article questions the stereotyped picture of the Asian university student as relying heavily on rote learning. A survey comparing Hong Kong students (n=2,143) with Australian norms found similar study processes in the two groups, suggesting that tendencies toward reproductive study approaches may be a function of teaching practices rather…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries
Cheng, Yin Cheong; And Others – 1996
Responding to the need for a comprehensive framework for monitoring and improving school effectiveness in local and international contexts, this paper presents the findings of a case study of one effective and one ineffective school. Data were derived from a survey of schools, document analysis, and field observations. The case schools are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Educational Environment, Effective Schools Research

Lin, Wen-Ying; And Others – Chinese University Education Journal, 1994
Utilizes an applicability paradigm to test the validity of the Students' Evaluation of Educational Quality (SEEQ) and the Endeavor questionnaire across seven countries. The similarity of results supported the instruments' applicability as measures of teacher effectiveness across different countries. Includes six tables of statistical data. (MJP)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Cultural Context, Educational Environment, Educational Research

Ho, Mary K. W.; Tam, Tony S. K. – Early Child Development and Care, 1995
Studied the first comprehensive research on residential child care in Hong Kong. Found that substantial numbers of children in care had been transferred from one residential facility to another, and that their parents suffered from more health, economic, and social maladjustment. Comparison of children involved in four types of movement found…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Family Environment, Foreign Countries

Cheung, K. C. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 1993
Uses a multilevel, integrative approach to show the desirability of modeling science learning products and processes simultaneously within an educational structure and specific learning context. Probes inequality and inequity in science teaching and learning at the sixth-form (grade-12) level in 272 Hong Kong schools. School provision, teacher…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Context Effect, Educational Environment, Efficiency