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No More Peking Ducks in Hong Kong: Provoking Critical Thinking through "Subversive Teaching."
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Gong, Gwendolyn – 1997
Education in Hong Kong has been developed along a British model that uses examination results to determine students' academic futures: to be allowed to go on to a university to study or to go into the workplace with a tenth-grade education. The system has been described by likening students to Peking ducks who are forced to eat, fattened up for…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Critical Thinking, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education