What is it about?
Despite often stereotyped as apolitical, Hong Kong students have played an important role in defining social and political movements in recent years, including the large-scale civil disobedience "Umbrella Movement" in 2014, which sprung largely from student-led protests. Using the case of Liberal Studies in Hong Kong, this article examines to what extent and how school curriculum affects youth political engagement.
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Why is it important?
This article is theoretically important because it extends the discussion of civic education and the de-/ politicization among the youth. How can the youth be politicized or not by their school curriculum? This article, thus, helps us know more how a school curriculum requiring students to critically analyse social and political issues engages or disengages the youth from political discussion and activities.
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Little attention has been given to the role of school curriculum in student politicization. Although that school curriculum bears little effect in student politicization seems self-evident, it is important for us to understand how and why it does not "work" in some cases but not in others.
Dr. Trevor Tsz-lok Lee
Education University of Hong Kong
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This page is a summary of: Conduit for Engagement? School Curriculum and Youth Political Participation in Hong Kong, Young, August 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1103308817711533.
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