CERC Seminar Series 2001 (from Feb. 2001)     

Venue: Runme Shaw Building, The University of Hong Kong

         3.30 - 5:00 pm on 19 Feb. 2001  (Monday)    
  

Venue: Room 402 Runme Shaw Building   

Title: "Women's Schooling and Maternal Literacy in Nepal and Venezuela" 

Presenters: 
Robert A. LeVine 
Sarah E. LeVine 

Robert A. LeVine is Professor Emeritus of Education Human Development at Harvard University; Sarah E. LeVine is Research Associate in Education there. Together they have directed the Project on Maternal Schooling at the Harvard Graduate School of Education since 1981. Working with doctoral students, the LeVines have conducted studies of the impact of women¡¦s schooling on maternal reproductive and health behavior in Mexico, Nepal, Zambia and Venezuela. The aim has been to discover the processes accounting for statistical relationships between maternal school attainment and reductions in child mortality and fertility. 
 

5.30 - 7.00 pm (Monday)    

Venue: 205 Runme Shaw Building 

MEd (Comparative Education): Year 2, 2000/01: 

Dissertation Seminars, February-April 2001 

Presenters:  M.Ed. students  

Our goal is to broaden our perspectives and understanding of the field of comparative education, to identify different methodological approaches, and to help each other with practicalities and conceptualisation. Arrangements are as follows: 
 
 

5 February	Yamato Yoko: "Education and the market: Comparing international schools in Hong Kong"   Irene Sin: "History curriculum in Hong Kong, England and China"
19 February	Francis Au: "Curriculum integration in local and non-local school systems"  Katie Chan: "Music curriculum in Hong Kong and Singapore"
5 March	Emily Mang: "Evolution in the field of comparative education and the role of CERC"  Corrina Sin: "Public and Private roles in kindergarten education in Hong Kong and Macau"
19 March	Rita Chan: "Government roles in higher education in Hong Kong and Macau"  Thomas Tong: "Supplementary tutoring in Hong Kong and Taipei"
2 April	Ada Shum: "Perceptions of school culture in Hong Kong: NETs vis-à-vis Students"  David Yan: "Teacher education in Russia and Hong Kong"

 
        11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. on 9 March 2001(Friday) 

             Venue: Runme Shaw 402 

            Title: "Continuity and Change in Primary Education: A Comparison of Patterns in Kerala (India) and 
                          Hong Kong (China) ----- Early 1980s to Late 1990s"

             Presenter:  M.V. Mukundan 
 

        3.30 - 5:00 pm on on 2 April 2001 (Monday) 
 

Venue: Room 402 Runme Shaw Building   

Title: "Higher Education in Macau: Political Transition, Expansion and Diversification"

Presenters: Mark Bray, Philip Hui, Ora Kwo and Emily Mang
 

Although Macau is a small territory with a small population, it has 11 institutions of higher education. The oldest and largest is the University of Macau; but others include a polytechnic, a tourism college, a security force training school, and a range of private bodies. The youngest private body is the Macau University of Science & Technology. This institution was established in 2000, and already has 650 students.

The four presenters are part of a team of five who have recently completed a review of the higher education sector as a consultancy assignment for the Macau government. They will outline the nature of the study, and highlight some features of Macau's circumstances from a comparative perspective. Higher education in Macau has developed in a very different way from its counterpart in Hong Kong, and much can be learned from comparative analysis. 

 

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