Asian Education and Development Studies: Volume 7 Issue 1

Developing teacher capacity in Cambodia: an expanded model

Elizabeth Fiona King

The purpose of this paper is to explore the issue of how best to develop teacher capacity in Cambodia. Since the 1990s the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS), with its…

A preliminary study on music as a tool of nationalistic education: From the Western Zhou, Han and Tang dynasties to contemporary Hong Kong

Chi Cheung Leung

The purpose of this paper is to discuss nationalistic education in Hong Kong from a cultural perspective. It highlights the challenges faced by the Hong Kong Government and the…

Democratizing higher education through internationalization: the case of HKU SPACE

Hei-hang Hayes Tang, Chak-pong Gordon Tsui

The purpose of this paper is to examine the way in which higher education participation is democratized in the entrepreneurial city of Hong Kong by the policy innovation that…

Music, social media and public pedagogy: indie music in the post-Cantopop epoch

Shuang Wang

Hong Kong’s musical scene is rapidly changing along with the evolving media landscape. The purpose of this paper is to examine the new way of Cantopop production and dissemination…

The impact of central-local inter-governmental relations on cultural democracy’s development: The experiences of South Korea and China

Xuan Jiang, Sun-hee Choi

The rise of cultural governance has made cultural democracy important in East Asia. South Korea and China have chosen to develop cultural democracy by means of developing…

A localist’s critique of Hong Kong’s political development: Political decay, legitimacy crisis and reverse democratization

Jeff Hai Chi Loo

This paper intends to explore the localist perspectives concerning Hong Kong’s political development. The persistent growth of localists in the polity of the Hong Kong Special…

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region at 20: Evaluating the Sino-British Joint Declaration

Tim Summers

The purpose of this paper is to examine the two decades since Hong Kong’s return to Chinese sovereignty, assessing developments against the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration…

Formation of urban cultural images: Wing Lee Street in Hong Kong

Wui Tim Cheung, Jane Zheng

The purpose of this paper is to explore how the cultural images of an urban quarter have been formulated by analyzing the Wing Lee Street (WLS) case in Hong Kong. This study aims…

Diversity's Promise for Higher Education: Making It Work

Jamshed Khalid