Making Sense of Education in Post-Handover Hong Kong Achievements and challenges Routledge Critical Studies in Asian Education Series

Since 1997 when Hong Kong became a Special Administrative Region of the People?s Republic of China, a string of education reforms have been introduced to improve the quality of education and maintain Hong Kong?s economic competitiveness in the age of globalization. This book provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of major issues and challenges faced by the education system, ranging from pre-school to higher education. It analyses the prospects for educational development in Hong Kong. It further addresses how the Hong Kong government has responded to the perceived challenges of the external environment and internal forces and explains the rationales for the actions taken. Not only does it review how the reform initiative challenges have been dealt with, it also reviews how effective these initiatives are and its implications on future directions.

1. Chapter 1 Introduction: Setting and Issues
2. Chapter 2 Vouchers in Early Childhood Education: Market Still? What to Choose Next?
3. Chapter 3 Parental Choice in the New Education Market: Aided-turn-Direct Subsidy Scheme Schools in Focus
4. Chapter 4 Unlocking the Dilemma of Language Policy in the Post-1997 Era
5. Chapter 5 In Search of Equal and Excellent Basic Education in Hong Kong: Insights from Programme for International Student Assessment
6. Chapter 6 Shadow Education: Features, Expansion and Implications
7. Chapter 7 Curriculum Reform: Why, How, What and Where it Heads for?
8. Chapter 8 Civic Education in Hong Kong: From Colonial Era to Post-Occupy Movement Era
9. Chapter 9 Changing Governance, Accountability and Leadership: Hong Kong Education Meets Neoliberalism
10. Chapter 10 Should there be Public Reporting of School Performance? The Lessons from the School Inspection Reports Disputes
11. Chapter 11 Parents and Home-school Relationships: Issues and Challenges
12. Chapter 12 Changing Student Diversity, Changing Cultures and Changing Education Policies: Cross-boundary Students, Chinese Immigrant Students and Non- Chinese Speaking Students in focus
13. Chapter 13 Excellence without a Soul? Higher Education in Post-1997 Hong Kong
14. Notes
15. References
16. Contributors
17. Index

Thomas Kwan-choi Tse received his PhD degree with a focus on sociology of education at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom in 1997. He is currently an associate professor of the Department of Educational Administration and Policy, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He teaches and publishes in the fields of civic education, moral education, educational policy and sociology of education.

Michael H. Lee received his doctorate in the field of higher education studies at the University of Hong Kong, is a Lecturer in the Department of History of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, teaching and researching in the area of educational history, development and policy in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore.