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Spanning Professional and Academic: The Changing Identity of Professional Administrators and Managers in Hong Kong's Higher Education Context
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Cheng, Tak-Iak – Educational Research and Reviews, 2017
This paper builds on Whitchurch's notion of the "blended professional" which aims to examine how mixed professional activity affects professional administrators and managers' identity disposition in universities in Hong Kong. In response to complex missions and demands of contemporary higher education globally, diverse projected-oriented…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Administration, Administrator Attitudes, Administrators
Developing a Rasch Measurement Physical Fitness Scale for Hong Kong Primary School-Aged Students
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Yan, Zi; Bond, Trevor G. – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2011
The main purpose of this study was to develop a Rasch Measurement Physical Fitness Scale (RMPFS) based on physical fitness indicators routinely used in Hong Kong primary schools. A total of 9,439 records of students' performances on physical fitness indicators, retrieved from the database of a Hong Kong primary school, were used to develop the…
Descriptors: Muscular Strength, Physical Fitness, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries
Creating Culturally Responsive Environments: Ethnic Minority Teachers' Constructs of Cultural Diversity in Hong Kong Secondary Schools
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Hue, Ming-tak; Kennedy, Kerry John – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2014
One of the challenges facing Hong Kong schools is the growing cultural diversity of the student population that is a result of the growing number of ethnic minority students in the schools. This study uses semi-structured interviews with 12 American, Canadian, Indian, Nepalese and Pakistani teachers working in three secondary schools in the public…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Foreign Countries, Minority Group Teachers, Cultural Pluralism
A Case Study of Alliances between U.S. Universities and Hong Kong Enterprises
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Humphrey, Pamela A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study is to explore and describe the process of alliance creation and maintenance between U.S. institutions of higher education and enterprises in Hong Kong. The methodology is a qualitative case study in which administrators from U.S. universities offering programs in Hong Kong and administrators from organizations in Hong…
Descriptors: Colleges, Foreign Countries, Data Analysis, Content Analysis
Bullying among Girls in Japan and Hong Kong: An Examination of the Frustration-Aggression Model
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Tam, Frank Wai-ming; Taki, Mitsuru – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2007
One widely accepted explanation of bullying, known as the aggressive-motive thesis, assumes that bullying is a form of aggressive behaviour triggered by external stress. However, recent evidences have suggested a different explanation, known as the frustration-aggression thesis, which asserts that bullying is a psychological defense triggered by…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Elementary Schools, Bullying, Females
Online Measurement of Academic Programme Preferences for Distance Learners in Hong Kong
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Zhang, Wei-yuan; Yeung, Lai-hung Au – Distance Education, 2003
The purpose of this paper is to report on the development of the first online self-directed inventory on the measurement of academic programme preferences (MAPP) for potential students at the Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK). In this study, trait-factor theory and personality type theory were employed. 1,963 respondents in Hong Kong were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Universities, Lifelong Learning, Distance Education