"Globalization and the Quest for Quality Education Reforms" - A Case Study of the Challenges facing the Senior-Form English Language Teachers of a Private Secondary School in Hong Kong

The impacts of ‘Globalization’ are multi-dimensional. In the realm of education, driving for ‘quality’ in the delivery of educational service has become a global tide of educational reforms since the past 2 decades. Being a global city, Hong Kong is no exception and therefore not immune from this...

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Main Author: Yeung, Portia Yuet Ping
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2021
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/64456/
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description The impacts of ‘Globalization’ are multi-dimensional. In the realm of education, driving for ‘quality’ in the delivery of educational service has become a global tide of educational reforms since the past 2 decades. Being a global city, Hong Kong is no exception and therefore not immune from this global wave of ‘quality education reforms’ either. The current paper attempts to identify the strategic responses of a local Senior-Form Private Secondary School in Hong Kong to its outer context of the quest for ‘quality education reforms’ in the city. In particular, the challenges facing the English language teachers of the research school are explored and discussed at the institutional level. Both ‘quantitative’ and ‘qualitative’ data collection methods have been adopted in the research, including ‘questionnaires’, ‘in-depth interviews’ and ‘class observations’. An English Language Proficiency Assessment Exercise has also been conducted following the ‘classroom observations’ of the English Language Teachers of the research school. The 4 propositions of Ho’s (2005) Conceptual Framework at the institutional level were discussed and explored in the Case Study. Although the Research has its own limitations, the overall findings do provide scope for future researches and studies.
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spelling nottingham-644562025-02-28T15:11:05Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/64456/ "Globalization and the Quest for Quality Education Reforms" - A Case Study of the Challenges facing the Senior-Form English Language Teachers of a Private Secondary School in Hong Kong Yeung, Portia Yuet Ping The impacts of ‘Globalization’ are multi-dimensional. In the realm of education, driving for ‘quality’ in the delivery of educational service has become a global tide of educational reforms since the past 2 decades. Being a global city, Hong Kong is no exception and therefore not immune from this global wave of ‘quality education reforms’ either. The current paper attempts to identify the strategic responses of a local Senior-Form Private Secondary School in Hong Kong to its outer context of the quest for ‘quality education reforms’ in the city. In particular, the challenges facing the English language teachers of the research school are explored and discussed at the institutional level. Both ‘quantitative’ and ‘qualitative’ data collection methods have been adopted in the research, including ‘questionnaires’, ‘in-depth interviews’ and ‘class observations’. An English Language Proficiency Assessment Exercise has also been conducted following the ‘classroom observations’ of the English Language Teachers of the research school. The 4 propositions of Ho’s (2005) Conceptual Framework at the institutional level were discussed and explored in the Case Study. Although the Research has its own limitations, the overall findings do provide scope for future researches and studies. 2021-08-04 Thesis (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en arr https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/64456/1/EdD%204034462%20Portia%20YEUNG%20%20%28Feb%202021%29.pdf Yeung, Portia Yuet Ping (2021) "Globalization and the Quest for Quality Education Reforms" - A Case Study of the Challenges facing the Senior-Form English Language Teachers of a Private Secondary School in Hong Kong. EdD thesis, University of Nottingham. Quality Education Reforms secondary school education Hong Kong
spellingShingle Quality Education Reforms
secondary school education
Hong Kong
Yeung, Portia Yuet Ping
"Globalization and the Quest for Quality Education Reforms" - A Case Study of the Challenges facing the Senior-Form English Language Teachers of a Private Secondary School in Hong Kong
title "Globalization and the Quest for Quality Education Reforms" - A Case Study of the Challenges facing the Senior-Form English Language Teachers of a Private Secondary School in Hong Kong
title_full "Globalization and the Quest for Quality Education Reforms" - A Case Study of the Challenges facing the Senior-Form English Language Teachers of a Private Secondary School in Hong Kong
title_fullStr "Globalization and the Quest for Quality Education Reforms" - A Case Study of the Challenges facing the Senior-Form English Language Teachers of a Private Secondary School in Hong Kong
title_full_unstemmed "Globalization and the Quest for Quality Education Reforms" - A Case Study of the Challenges facing the Senior-Form English Language Teachers of a Private Secondary School in Hong Kong
title_short "Globalization and the Quest for Quality Education Reforms" - A Case Study of the Challenges facing the Senior-Form English Language Teachers of a Private Secondary School in Hong Kong
title_sort "globalization and the quest for quality education reforms" - a case study of the challenges facing the senior-form english language teachers of a private secondary school in hong kong
topic Quality Education Reforms
secondary school education
Hong Kong
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/64456/