Overview
- Is the only study of its kind on the value of humanities higher education in Hong Kong or elsewhere
- Uses extensive empirical data, including both interviews and graduate employment survey data, for analysis and recommendations
- Shares past humanities graduates’ views on the value of their degrees in their lives and careers
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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About this book
The book will appeal to both an academic and a wider audience, including members of the general public, non-academic educators, and government administrators interested in the status quo of humanities education, whether in Hong Kong or elsewhere. The report also includes a wealth of text taken directly from interviews with humanities graduates, who share their compelling life stories and views on the value of their humanities education.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Flora Ka Yu Mak is a Ph.D. candidate in English (Literary Studies) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include Romantic poetry and the notion of impersonality. Her previous education-related research has addressed trade and investment in higher education services in Hong Kong.
Thomas Siu-Ho Yau is a postgraduate student at the Department of English, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His main research interests are in second language acquisition and cognitive linguistics. He has also pursued research on language and society, language policy, curriculum and education policy, and vocational education in Hong Kong, employing technology enhanced learning and learning analytics to do so.
Yutong Hu received her M.Phil. in Sociology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2017 and subsequently worked for the Department of English at the same university as a Research Assistant. She will begin her Ph.D. studies in Sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong this fall. Her research interests include the sociology of education, social stratification and mobility, and quantitative methods.
Michael O’Sullivan is an Associate Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He works in the fields of comparative literature, literature and philosophy, and education studies. Recent relevant publications include The Humanities and the Irish University (MUP 2014), The Humanities inContemporary Chinese Contexts (with Evelyn Chan) (Springer 2016), Academic Barbarism, Universities, and Inequality (Palgrave 2016) and “Educational inequalities in higher education in Hong Kong” in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (2015) (with Michael Yat-him Tsang).
Eddie Tay is an Associate Professor at the Department of English, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His most recent publication, Anything You Can Get Away With: Creative Practices, is a critical-creative work featuring street photography in Hong Kong and Singapore. He is also the author of four poetry collections and a book on the colonial and postcolonial literatures of Singapore and Malaysia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Value of the Humanities in Higher Education
Book Subtitle: Perspectives from Hong Kong
Authors: Evelyn Tsz Yan Chan, Flora Ka Yu Mak, Thomas Siu Ho Yau, Yutong Hu, Michael O'Sullivan, Eddie Tay
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7187-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-7186-2Published: 13 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-7187-9Published: 12 August 2020
Series ISSN: 2211-1921
Series E-ISSN: 2211-193X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 105
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 31 illustrations in colour
Topics: Higher Education, Research Methods in Education, Sociology of Education