CERCular: No.2 of 1997

CERC Studies in Comparative Education


The first two volumes in the new series, CERC Studies in Comparative Education, are now available. The first examines the links between education and political transition in East Asia, with particular focus on mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan. The second is entirely devoted to the implications of Hong Kong's 1997 change of sovereignty, which is viewed within a comparative perspective. The books make a significant conceptual as well as descriptive contribution to the literature.

Education and Political Transition: Perspectives and Dimensions in East Asia

edited by W.O. Lee & Mark Bray

Publisher: CERC, The University of Hong Kong
1997, 115 pp. ISBN 962 8093 93 2, Price: HK$100/US$20

This book contains a revision of selected papers from CERC's inaugural symposium in 1995 and reprinted from the Asia Pacific Journal of Education (1996). The articles included are:

  1. Education and Political Transitions in Asia: Diversity and Commonality, by Mark Bray and W. O. Lee

  2. Political Transitions and the Internationalization of English: Implications for Language Planning, Policy-making and Pedagogy, by Robert Keith Johnson

  3. The Regulation of Pedagogic Discourse: Relationships between the State and Intellectuals after the Cultural Revolution in China, by Cheung Kwok Wah

  4. The Taiwanisation, Democratisation, and Internationalisation of Higher Education in Taiwan, by Law Wing Wah

  5. Globalisation, the State and Education Policy in Singapore, by Saravanan Gopinathan

  6. Hegemonic Struggle in the Language Policy Development of Hong Kong, 1982-1994, by Pun Shuk Han

  7. Changing Ideopolitical Emphases in Moral Education in China: An Analysis of the CCP Central Committee Documents, by W. O. Lee

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Education and Political Transition: Implications of Hong Kong's Change of Sovereignty

edited by Mark Bray & W.O. Lee

Publisher: CERC, The University of Hong Kong
1997, 169 pp. ISBN 962 8093 90 8, Price: HK$100/US$20

This collection of papers was published by the journal Comparative Education (Vol.33, No.2) in June 1997 to coincide with Hong Kong's change of sovereignty. Their republication in book form makes the articles available to persons who do not subscribe to the journal. The articles are:

  1. Education and Colonial Transition: The Hong Kong Experience in Comparative Perspective, by Mark Bray

  2. Education Policy and the 1997 Factor: The Art of the Possible Interacting with the Dismal Science, by Anthony Sweeting

  3. The Accommodation and Resistance to the Decolonisation, Neocolonisation, and Recolonisation of Higher Education in Hong Kong, by Wing-Wah Law

  4. Church, State and Education: Catholic Education in Hong Kong during the Political Transition, by John Kang Tan

  5. Language and the Curriculum in Hong Kong: Dilemmas of Triglossia, by Bob Adamson & Winnie Auyeung Lai

  6. The Hong Kong School Curriculum and the Political Transition: Politicisation, Contextualisation and Symbolic Action, by Paul Morris & K.K Chan

  7. Futuristic Metropolis or Second-rate Port? Adult Education in Hong Kong before and after 1997, by Roger Boshier

  8. Hong Kong's Change of Sovereignty: School Leader Perceptions of the Effects on Educational Policy and School Administration, by Clive Dimmock & Allan Walker

  9. Education and Colonial Transition in Singapore and Hong Kong: Comparison and Contrasts, by Jason Tan

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