Edward Vickers is Lecturer in Comparative Education at the Institute of Education, University of London. He is co-editor of History Education and National Identity in East Asia (New York: Routledge, 2005).
'A significant contribution to research in the field of education
in general, and to research in comparative curriculum history in
particular... the first comprehensive effort to analyse the
trajectories of history education in Hong Kong from historical
per
'In Search of an Identity provides a scholarly and superbly
readable account of a complex episode in curriculum history in East
Asia. As such, it represents a major contribution to curriculum
policy studies and to the regional historiography of education
'Since the 1960s, Hong Kong people have developed a strong sense of
their own distinctiveness. This thorough study explains why the
local school curriculum has failed to reflect this emerging sense
of identity. Vickers shows how the pressures of political
'This volume makes a substantial contribution to understanding the
complexities of curriculum development processes, identity
politics, and notions of 'culture' and 'nationness' not only in
Hong Kong, but across the rest of East Asia and beyond.' -
Alisa
[There is] no other book covering so thoroughly an essential topic
for scholars of national identity the curriculum through which Hong
Kong youth have been taught history over the past forty years.' -
Gordon Matthews, Asian Anthropology
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