Daphnee Lee and Chiu Chi Shing are granted the SIG fund for organizing seminar to engage teachers and schools

The seminar is co-organized with the Asia-Pacific Centre for Leadership and Change, which targets 200 principals, middle leaders and teacher participants. Contributors to the seminar include EPL colleagues: Chair Prof. Allan Walker, Prof. Chiu Chi Shing, Dr. Sylvia Tang, Dr. Darren Bryant, Mr. Chong Yiu Kwong, Dr. Daphnee Lee, Dr. James Ko, Mr. Joe Hui and Mr. Maxwell Ho. This initiative is also supported by colleagues who offer support in administration and publicity: Anthon Chu, Louisa Tsang, Noelle Ip and Oscar Lo. The seminar is in both Chinese (Cantonese) and English. The press release will be published in Chinese.

More details on the seminar and how to sign up

The special issue proposal has been accepted on 19 September 2018 by Journal of Educational Change (EdUHK Rank A). Contributors include colleagues from EPL department: Chair Prof. Christine Halse, Dr. Daphnee Lee, Dr. James Ko, Dr. Linnie Wong; and international contributors from the universities of Mainland China, Singapore, United Kingdom and United States. The special issue is the result of collaborative efforts among members of the Teacher and School Development SIG. Professor Dennis Shirley, Honorary Professor of EPL, mooted the idea of theory building in non-western contexts. Conversations with likeminded contributors converged into the use of identity grafting, a theory developed in Daphnee Lee’s book, Managing Chineseness (2017), as the theme of the special issue.

The manuscript presents mixed methods findings to explore whether professional learning communities (PLCs) can still transform instructional practices in contexts that endorse hierarchical cultures. This is a first attempt in education research to examine the influence of power distance cultures on the professional capital of PLCs. The article presents findings on the key cultural attributes (risk-taking, uncertainty avoidance, power distance) of PLCs that realise transformational change in practice. Validated instruments of the study are also published in the manuscript.

Details of the manuscript:
Lee, D.H.L. & Lee, W.O. (2018). Transformational changes in instruction with professional learning communities?: The influence of teacher cultural dispositions in high power distance contexts. Journal of Educational Change, 19(4), 463-488.

Download Dr. Lee's works here:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Daphnee_Lee

Dr. KO Yue On James GRF Grant Awardee 2019/2020 for research project:

Project title: Effective teaching and their effects on early childhood development: A comparative, longitudinal, mixed-method study of Hong Kong and Finnish kindergartens

 

 

 

 

Dr. LEE Hui Lin Daphnee ECS Grant Awardee 2019/2020 for research project:

Project title: Teacher leadership: Influences of hierarchical Chinese contexts on the capacity of professional learning communities to empower the classroom teacher

 

 

 

 

Dr. WONG Koon Lin ECS Grant Awardee 2019/2020 for research project:

Project title: An analysis of the role of Hong Kong school principals in supporting the teaching of civic education

 

 

 

 

 

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Mr. Maxwell Ho was granted the SIG fund for developing a community engagement research:

In the project, Mr. Ho surveyed about teachers’ view on business education, which includes curriculum, teaching and learning, and extra-curricular, etc. There are 100 schools’ responds to the survey. He will summarise the data and draft the other questionnaire for the business corporates, such as HSBC, Citi-bank, HKICPA, etc. These are active corporates in organising activities or support to the business education in Hong Kong. Maxwell invites these corporates to state the possibility of addressing teachers’ concern. By consulting business teachers and business corporates’ opinion, we produce a booklet to summaries our findings. EPL will launch a business education forum for business teachers, business corporates, students, and education bureau, etc. In the forum, Maxwell will work with Hong Kong Business teachers association and economic journals. We release the result of the survey and suggest a primary plan for developing and supporting business education. Stakeholders, who are teachers, business corporates, students, media, etc., have an opportunity to understand and share their concern in business education. Their precious opinion will be documentary and store as a data for EPL to develop a strategic plan for supporting business education.

Remarks: Business corporates always provide support for business education for corporate social responsibility purpose. These are non-profit making activities and part of social service for them.