Implementing multicultural curriculum for equity: Islam in Hong Kong education
Implementing multicultural curriculum for equity: Islam in Hong Kong education
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实施多元文化课程以促进公平:香港教育中的伊斯兰教
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10.1163/9789004366749_004
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2018
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L. Jackson
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L. Jackson
Various research carried out in the field of education and its relation with the labour market has shown the increasing weakening of higher education as a tool of social mobility in Latin America (Filmus & Moragues, 2003; Jacinto & Terigui, 2007). However, despite the finding of an increasing loss of value of educational credentials, education still holds an important symbolic value, especially for the most disadvantaged groups of society. The completion of secondary education represents an instance of great importance in the subjective construction of young peoples lives, since it is associated with the chance of personal accomplishment, access to better working conditions and a fundamental and necessary step for continuing further studies at the tertiary level (Dussel, Brito, & Nuñez, 2007; Castillo & Cabezas, 2010).In the case of Chile, the rate of completion of secondary education is currently 83%. This indicator has increased by 10 points in the last ten years, driven by the incorporation of the most vulnerable sectors into formal education, particularly to vocational education (Chilean Ministry of Education2MINEDUC, 2013). Indeed, as in other OECD (Organisation for Economic CoYoperation and Development) countries, academic training1 prevails over technicalYprofessional alternatives. However, there are important differences when analysing its internal distribution. It should be stressed that the predominance of the technical-professional modality in sectors of lower income and higher levels of vulnerability reaches 66.4% of the first two poorest deciles. The comparable figure for the socioYeconomic segment pursuing academic training is only 17.3%. 2 On the other hand, although an increase in schooling has marNed the setting of Chilean society in the last decades, the main transformation of recent years is associated with an increase in access to higher education. This expansion in enrolment has been made possible to a large extent by the privatisation of the higher education system implemented three decades ago, which led to a market structure