Abstract
The Hong Kong education system is at a crucial point in its trajectory, and changes to public education also reflect broader social, economic and political changes within Hong Kong and globally. Since the 1997 handover of Hong Kong from British control to China, Hong Kong has struggled to develop its own identity under the One Country, Two Systems premise. One of the compulsory courses in the Hong Kong curriculum known as liberal studies, introduced in 2009, provided a useful departure point for exploring many social tensions occurring in Hong Kong. Exploring education reform through liberal studies explains how these social tensions manifest within education, and how these educational tensions manifest within the broader society.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2017
Publisher Statement
Copyright © 2017 Rowman & Littlefield. This article first appeared in the International Journal of Education Reform 26:2 (2017), 156-175.
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Recommended Citation
Spires, Robert. “Hong Kong’s Post-Colonial Education Reform: Liberal studies as a lens.” International Journal of Education Reform, 26:2 (2017): 156-175.