The Past,Present and Future of the Religious Schools in Hong Kong     

Kwok Keung Ho 《Compare》1996,26(1):51-59

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Angry Anglos and aspirational Asians: everyday multiculturalism in the selective school system in Sydney     

Christina Ho 《Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education》2019,40(4):514-529

ABSTRACT

‘Asian whiz kids’ perfect test scores.’ ‘Selective schools and tiger parents.’ These types of headlines highlight the increased visibility of academically successful students from Asian migrant backgrounds, in Australia and other Western countries. They also point to anxiety about the perceived aggressive ‘tiger’ parenting often associated with Asian academic success. This paper focuses on the forms of everyday multiculturalism found in and around high-performing selective schools and classes in Sydney, Australia, almost all of which are dominated by Asian-Australian students. Drawing on interviews with parents and students from Anglo- and Asian-Australian backgrounds, it documents the different positionalities adopted by participants within these culturally diverse settings, including anger, aspiration and cosmopolitanism. This potentially volatile combination of approaches to diversity reveals some of the social consequences of neoliberal migration and education policies.  相似文献   

What is the CDA assessment process?     

Connie Castiglia Gault 《Early Childhood Education Journal》1989,16(3):6-9

The Child Development Associate (CDA) National Credentialing Program is a major national effort initiated in 1971 to improve the quality of child care by improving, evaluating, and recognizing the competence of child-care providers and home visitors. The Child Development Associate or CDA is a person who is able to meet the specific needs of children and who, with parents and other adults, works to nurture children's physical, social, emotional, and intellectual growth in a child-development framework. The CDA Credential is awarded to child-care providers and home visitors who have demonstrated their skill in working with young children and their families by successfully completing the CDA assessment process.Connie Castiglia Gault is a CDA Trainer/Advisor at Elmira College in Elmira, New York.  相似文献   

Science Teachers’ Perceptions: Similarities and Differences in the U.S., England,Singapore and Japan     

Toh Kok Aun  Ho Boon Tiong  Wan Yoke Kum  Diana Ang 《Asia Pacific Journal of Education》2004,24(1):1-11

The prospect of using internationally generated comparative data, augmented with practice patterns, to provide useful information from which countries can learn from each other, is gaining acceptance from the increasing popularity of such an approach (Stigler and Hiebert, 1999). Using the survey data from TIMSS we examine the beliefs of teachers in the U.S., England, Singapore and Japan, and find little national variation in many teachers’ perceptions of core practices in science teaching, indicating that science teachers the world over share the same common core practices. However, there is one key difference among their practices, which signals a departure in the way teachers in Japan and Singapore operate vis‐à‐vis those in the U.S. and England. This key difference is attributed to cultural differences in the U.S. and England, when compared to Japan and Singapore.  相似文献   

From ‘brain drain’ to ‘brain bridging’: transnational higher education development and graduate employment in China     

Ka Ho Mok  Xiao Han 《Journal of Higher Education Policy & Management》2016,38(3):369-389

ABSTRACT

In the past few decades, the internationalisation of higher education has become an increasingly popular trend across different parts of the globe. The fierce global competition and the aggravating unemployment rate, coupled with low teaching and research quality revealed by universities in mainland China, have inevitably compelled a growing number of Chinese students, in particular the financially-able ones, to pursue higher education overseas or to enrol in transnational higher education offered in mainland China. Realising the severe problem of ‘brain drain’ and having a strong conviction to transform its higher education system to become more international for enhancing the global competitiveness of its higher education system, the Chinese government has made different attempts to enhance higher education quality by learning and incorporating new ideas and practices from overseas institutions, particularly encouraging the development of transnational higher education to change the higher education landscape. With particular reference to examining the way these students evaluate their future prospects in choosing different alternatives for further studies in higher education, this study sets out against the context briefly outlined above to critically analyse the motivation of students who choose to study abroad or enrol in Sino-foreign cooperation universities. This study also discusses the extent to which the internationalisation of higher education would affect the situations of ‘brain drain’ and graduate employment in China.  相似文献   

Long-term unemployment: Effects and counseling interventions     

John Joseph Peregoy  Connie T. Schliebner 《International journal for the advancement of counseling》1990,13(3):193-204

The authors provide an overview of the psychosocial impact of unemployment. Case studies, based on interviews with the long-term unemployed during 1988 and 1989 are presented to highlight the Personal Employment Identity Model. The PEIM is a service delivery paradigm designed to assist counselors when working with the unemployed. It utilizes an individuals's ego identity in relation to their self identification with their previous work role to recommend interventions. Interventions will vary according to the inherent and expressed needs of the individual on the continuum of the Personal Employment Identity Model.  相似文献   

An investigation of preschool teachers’ ways of seeing action research using phenomenography     

Ho?Cheong?LamEmail author 《Educational Research for Policy and Practice》2016,15(2):147-162

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Building preschool teachers’ capacity for teaching Chinese to ethnic minority children in Hong Kong: A qualitative study     

Catalina Sau Man Ng  Wenyu Chai  Hung Kit Fok  Sing Pui Chan  Ho Cheong Lam 《Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education》2020,41(3):284-305

ABSTRACT

Teaching Chinese to second language learners is a challenge for preschool teachers in Hong Kong so effective teacher professional development programmes are urgently needed to enhance their knowledge and skills. An Integrative Model Teacher Professional Development Programme which incorporates three theoretical underpinnings (i.e., culturally responsive teaching, meaningful and pleasurable learning, and effective teaching of Chinese as a second language) is designed to equip preschool teachers with knowledge, skills, and awareness in teaching Chinese to ethnic minority students. Through qualitative interviews with 15 in-service preschool teachers who joined the Programme, teachers’ perceptions and changes in three theoretical areas of teaching Chinese to ethnic minority students were explored. Particularly, teachers increased their awareness of ethnic minority cultures, developed empathy with ethnic minority children and their families, gained knowledge of implementing culturally responsive teaching and meaningful and pleasurable learning of Chinese. The role of teacher sharing in effective professional development was highlighted.  相似文献   

The role of stroke knowledge in reading and spelling in Chinese     

Lap‐yan Lo  Pui‐sze Yeung  Connie Suk‐Han Ho  David Wai‐ock Chan  Kevin Chung 《Journal of Research in Reading》2016,39(4):367-388

The present study examined the types of orthographic knowledge that are important in learning to read and spell Chinese words in a 2‐year longitudinal study following 289 Hong Kong Chinese children from Grade 1 to Grade 2. Multiple regression results showed that radical knowledge significantly predicted children's word reading and spelling performance across the years. Stroke knowledge contributed both concurrently (Grade 1) and longitudinally (Grade 2) to children's spelling performance after controlling for rapid naming, phonological awareness, morphological awareness and radical knowledge. These findings support the significance of radical knowledge in Chinese reading and spelling and the specific role of stroke order knowledge in Chinese spelling. The findings have implications for the design of an effective curriculum for teaching children to spell Chinese characters.  相似文献   

Genotype-environment correlations for language-related abilities: implications for typical and atypical learners     

Gilger JW  Ho HZ  Whipple AD  Spitz R 《Journal of learning disabilities》2001,34(6):492-502

Recent behavioral genetic research has shown that genetic propensities are associated with individual differences in experiences, and thus, what may appear to be environmental effects can reflect genetic influence. This study examines passive genotype-environment correlations (GECs) for language-related abilities by comparing environment-child language associations in adoptive and nonadoptive families. The results provide evidence for the genetic mediation of the association between home environmental variables, such as the provision of toys and games, maternal involvement, and degree of intellectual/cultural orientation with children's language-related abilities. Developmental changes in passive GECs are considered, and the implications for typical and atypical learners are discussed.  相似文献