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Hong Kong Urban Classroom Culture. Local Dilemmas and Opportunities in EMI-based Multilingual Schools

Pérez-Milans, Miguel; Soto, Carlos; Wang, Hang; (2015) Hong Kong Urban Classroom Culture. Local Dilemmas and Opportunities in EMI-based Multilingual Schools. [Digital scholarly resource]. https://www.academia.edu/5197304/Hong_Kong_Urban_C... Green open access

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Abstract

Contemporary classrooms are a major focus of public debate in contemporary world, particularly in the current context of Hong Kong where wide-ranging educational reforms have been undertaken since the early 2000's. In this context of on-going reform, language education policies have been the centre of a controversial debate which involves all administrative levels and societal actors, from politicians to educators, families and youngsters. Thus, official guidelines and public demands are increasingly emphasizing monitoring of curriculum and pedagogy from a top-down perspective. As a result, Hong Kong teachers, students and school heads find themselves under great pressure to apply abstract guidelines designed outside the confines of the schools with no guidance or consideration on how are they supposed to be localised in everyday lives of their specific school communities. Against this background, the aim of this material is to provide a systematic set of classroom-based naturally occurring data, complementary activities and materials for educators to reflect upon (Hong Kong's contemporary reforms of its language education policies, from a bottom-up perspective which takes into consideration real and localised experiences of teachers and students who are supposed to make such reforms a reality. This is not an academic book in which classroom data are analyzed against or in relation to a given theoretical framework; rather, this package attempts to allow Hong Kong teachers to reflect around the provided classroom materials under the guidance of a facilitator, on the basis of which further interpretations and (academic/non-academic) discourses/perspectives available in wider society are progressively brought into being. Indeed, these complementary perspectives are introduced in a way that seeks consolidation / re-consideration / challenging of initial interpretations by teachers and, therefore, opens new paths for discussion and reflection.

Type: Digital scholarly resource
Title: Hong Kong Urban Classroom Culture. Local Dilemmas and Opportunities in EMI-based Multilingual Schools
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: https://www.academia.edu/5197304/Hong_Kong_Urban_C...
Language: English
Keywords: EMI, Hong Kong, Multilingualism, Teacher training, Urban schools, Youth culture
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Culture, Communication and Media
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10176085
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