'These are not the best students': continuing education, transnationalisation and Hong Kong's young adult 'educational non-elite'
'These are not the best students': continuing education, transnationalisation and Hong Kong's young adult 'educational non-elite'
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“这些不是最好的学生”：继续教育、跨国化和香港年轻人的“教育非精英”
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10.1080/14733285.2013.850851
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2013
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Waters J
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这篇论文探讨了年轻人向高等教育(HE)过渡与跨国教育(TNE)计划提供的机会之间的关系，重点是了解香港的当代情况。在过去十年间，香港技术教育的扩展与政府提供“持续教育”的承诺之间，已形成了一种有趣的联系。我们通过对学生/毕业生的70次深度采访，探索这种关系对直接受到这些新机会影响的年轻人可能意味着什么。我们的样本是，布林顿[2011]。转型中的迷失：后工业化日本的青年、工作和不稳定。纽约：剑桥大学出版社]将香港称为(在另一种背景下)香港的“教育非精英”。我们问：在一个文凭(尤其是学位)被视为“一切”的时代，这些“非精英”如何应对不断变化的教育条件？我们的论文直接参与了关于年轻人和(国际)教育的讨论，并坦率地考虑了跨国高等教育在当代香港数以千计(迄今被忽视的)个人的教育/就业转型中所扮演的具体角色。
This paper examines the under-explored relationship between young people's transitions to higher education (HE) and the opportunities afforded by transnational education (TNE) programmes, with a focus on understanding the contemporary situation in Hong Kong. A fascinating association has developed, over the past decade, between the expansion of TNE in the territory and the government's commitment to providing ‘continuing education’. We explore what this relationship might mean for the young people directly affected by these new opportunities, by drawing on 70 in-depth interviews with students/graduates. Our sample is, what Brinton [2011.Lost in Transition: Youth, Work, and Instability in Postindustrial Japan. New York: Cambridge University Press] has termed (in another context), Hong Kong's ‘educational non-elite’. We ask: how does this ‘non-elite’ negotiate the shifting terrains of educational provision in an era where credentials (particularly at degree-level) are seen as ‘everything’? Our paper contributes directly to discussions around young people and (international) education, and considers frankly the specific role that transnational HE plays in the education/employment transition of thousands of (hitherto neglected) individuals in contemporary Hong Kong.