[csaa-forum] CCR Seminar on Cultural Research and Educational Reform in Hong Kong, 4 August

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Centre for Cultural Research Seminar
RETHINKING CULTURAL RESEARCH AND CULTURAL POLICY:  THE CASE OF EDUCATIONAL
REFORM IN HONG KONG

Professor Stephen Chan and Dr Hui Po-Keung
Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong


Wednesday 4 August 2004  3.00-5.00pm
University of Western Sydney
Parramatta Campus
BLD EZ, Female Orphan School, Gallery Floor

RSVP by Monday 2 August 3.00pm to: (02)9685 9600 or mailto:ccr at uws.edu.au



During the first six months of 2004, the Kwan Fong Cultural Research and
Development programme at Lingnan University has been commissioned by the
Curriculum Development Institute of the Hong Kong Government's Education
Bureau to offer a series of intensive training workshops for local school
teachers on the subject of Integrated Humanities (IH).  Meanwhile, our
project team took the opportunity to conduct a pilot study on the
implementation of the new IH curriculum in a particular local school.  The
workshop and the study provide us with first-hand data and nuanced
perspectives for understanding the complex process involved in school
educational practice in the general field of the humanities.  Together they
bring out challenging questions for us as Cultural Studies scholars having
to deal with emerging issues in public cultural planning and education.
In this paper, we shall attempt to re-think the critical functions of
cultural research and its productive links to the shaping of public life in
specific social contexts.  On the basis of our on-going case-study, we hope
to examine the problems of local cultural policy in light of its
implications for cultural research, and to discuss the relationships between
critical pedagogy and cultural planning with reference to the broader
institutional condition of cultural management and development.


Stephen CHAN is Professor of Cultural Studies and Director of the Master of
Cultural Studies degree at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Founder of the
Hong Kong Cultural Studies Programme (1994-97) at The Chinese University of
Hong Kong, Chan has published several volumes on Hong Kong culture and
identity for the Hong Kong Cultural Studies book series brought out by
Oxford UP Hong Kong (in Chinese). His current scholarly interests are split
between the study of popular sensibility and local-global flows in Hong Kong
action cinema, and the re-configuration of cultural studies as a
community-oriented critical project through involvement in school
educational reform.


HUI Po-keung received his PhD in Sociology from the State University of New
York at Binghamton in 1995. He is now teaching at the Cultural Studies
Department of Lingnan University in Hong Kong. His main research interests
are cultural economy, history of capitalism, alternative development, and
critical pedagogy. He has co-edited 6 volumes of the Cultural and Social
Studies Translation Series (in Chinese), jointly published by Oxford UP
(Hong Kong) and Bianyi Chubanshe (Beijing). He is the author of What
Capitalism is Not  (in Chinese, Oxford UP, Hong Kong 2002). His English
articles are published in Traces, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, China
Information and as book chapters in a number of books