Civic education guidelines in Hong Kong 1985-2012: Striving for normative stability in turbulent social and political contexts
Chinese nationalism (2012). We argue that guidelines about civic education are similar across these times of political turbulence. There are shifts in the content of the guidelines, but fundamental differences are not made explicit. The documents are not aligned with a theoretical framework of colonialism, liberal democracy, or Chinese nationalism, but rather, they are pragmatically oriented. The guidelines are signifiers of attempts to achieve normative
Publication date
2019
Journal title, volume/issue number, page range
Theory & Research in Social Education, 48/2, 285-306
ISSN
Print ISSN: 0093-3104 Online ISSN: 2163-1654
URL of article
Specialisation
Social Sciences
Theme
Education