Koo Wai-sze. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [163-172]). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Contents --- p.i / Abstract --- p.v / Acknowledgement --- p.vii / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Current Situation of Preschool Education and Services in Hong Kong --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Historical Review of Preschool Education and Services in Hong Kong --- p.5 / Table 1.1: Percentage of children aged 3 to 5 attending schools (1971-1996) --- p.10 / Table 1.2: Gross enrolment ratios of Pre-Primaty Education in Selected Countries (1995-1997) --- p.10 / Chapter 1.3 --- Research Inquiries --- p.12 / Chapter 1.4 --- Structure of the Thesis --- p.19 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Literature Review --- p.20 / Chapter 2.1 --- Functional School of Thought --- p.21 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Functional Perspectives on Preschool Education and Servicesin Hong Kong --- p.27 / Chapter 2.2 --- Conflict School of Thought --- p.29 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Conflict Perspectives on Preschool Education and Services in Hong Kong --- p.37 / Chapter 2.3 --- Institutionalist Perspectives and Organizational Analysis --- p.39 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Organizational Perspectives --- p.39 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Institution and Institutionalization --- p.42 / Chapter 2.3.3 --- The Problem of Isomorphism --- p.48 / Chapter 2.3.4 --- Institutionalist Perspectives on Preschool --- p.50 / Chapter 2.4 --- Theoretical Framework --- p.51 / Chapter 2.4.1 --- New Institutionalist Perspective on Institutionalization of Preschool Education and Services in Hong Kong --- p.51 / Chapter 2.4.2 --- New Institutionalist Perspectives on Preschool Education and Services --- p.52 / Chapter 2.4.3 --- The Child as Scientized Individual - Child-Centered Ideology --- p.56 / Chapter 2.4.4 --- The Form of Education Institution Embodied by Preschool Education --- p.61 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Methodology --- p.64 / Chapter 3.1 --- Government and Other Documents --- p.64 / Chapter 3.2 --- Content Analysis --- p.66 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Subject of Analysis and Method of Classification --- p.66 / Table 3.1 Analytical frameworks for content analysis of newspaper articles --- p.69 / Chapter 3.2.1.1 --- Formalization --- p.70 / Chapter 3.2.1.2 --- Modern Ideological Claims --- p.71 / Chapter 3.2.1.3 --- Conventional Conceptions on Preschool Education --- p.72 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Unit of Analysis --- p.73 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- Limitations --- p.74 / Chapter 3.3 --- Interviews --- p.74 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- An Alternative Institutionalization 一 From Modern Education to Modern Early Childhood Education --- p.77 / Chapter 4.1 --- Preschool Education and Services under the Hong Kong Government --- p.80 / Chapter 4.2 --- The Changing Discourses of the Government 一 From Pragmatic Discourse to Child-centered Ideology --- p.84 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Phase I: Pragmatic Discourse (from the fifties to the end of the seventies): Peripheral Status of Preschool in the Educational Sector --- p.86 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Phase II (since the beginning of the eighties): Child-centered Ideology Discourse as Justification for Modern Early Childhood Education --- p.90 / Chapter 4.3 --- Child-centered Ideology as Source of Legitimacy --- p.94 / Table 4.1 Summary of recommendations on formalization of preschool education and services in government documents (1980-2000) --- p.98 / Chapter 4.4 --- The Redefinition of Preschool Education as Modern Early Childhood Education --- p.104 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Other Forces in The Institutionalization of Preschool Education And Services --- p.107 / Chapter 5.1 --- "Child-centered ideology in the discourses of professionals, pressure groups and the media/ public" --- p.107 / Chapter 5.2 --- From newspaper ´ؤ an overview --- p.109 / "Table 5.1 Percentage of different types of discourses by actors (1960, 65,70,75,80- June, 2000)" --- p.111 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- Overall trend from 1960 to June2000 --- p.111 / "Figure 5.1 Number of News Items Concerning Preschool Education and Services in Ming Pao and Singtao Daily (1960,65,70,75,80-Jun, 2000)" --- p.113 / Chapter 5.2.3 --- Classification by discourse --- p.113 / Chapter 5.2.3.1 --- On formalization --- p.114 / "Table 5.2 a Percentage of form of discourses by Government (1960,65,70,75,80-Jun, 2000)" --- p.114 / "Table 5.2b Percentage of form of discourses by Professionals (1960,65,70,75,80-Jun, 2000)" --- p.115 / "Table 5.2 c Percentage of form of discourses by Pressure Groups (1960,65,70,75,80-Jun, 2000)" --- p.115 / "Table 5.2d Percentage of form of discourses by Media/ Public Opinion (1960,65,70,75,80-Jun, 2000)" --- p.116 / Table 5.3 The implementation of measures recommended in the White Paper (1982/83-84/85) --- p.117 / "Table 5.4 Percentage of discourses on formalization by actors (1960，65,70,75,80-Jun, 2000)" --- p.118 / Chapter 5.2.3.2 --- On modern ideological claims --- p.119 / "Table 5.5 Frequencies and percentage of modern ideological claims by actors (1960- June, 2000) (%)" --- p.122 / Chapter 5.2.3.3 --- On conventional conceptions on preschool education --- p.125 / Chapter 5.3 --- From other sources of data --- p.126 / Table 5.6 Comparison of news items by professionals and pressure groupsin selected years --- p.127 / Chapter 5.3.1 --- The Professionals --- p.130 / Chapter 5.3.1.1 --- Professional groups and individual professionals --- p.130 / Chapter 5.3.1.2 --- The practitioners --- p.136 / Chapter 5.3.2 --- Pressure groups --- p.139 / Chapter 5.3.3 --- Media and the Public --- p.140 / Chapter 5.4 --- Dynamics of different actors --- p.141 / Chapter Chapter 6： --- Conclusion --- p.145 / Chapter 6.1 --- The Institutionalization of Preschool Education and Services in Hong Kong with Child-centered Ideology as Cultural Model --- p.145 / Chapter 6.1.1 --- Dynamic Forces of the Actors --- p.150 / Table 6.1 Summary of the official reports from 1980 to2000 --- p.150 / Chapter 6.2 --- The Significance of Institutional Culture in Legitimating an Institution --- p.158 / Chapter 6.3 --- Limitations and Further Studies --- p.160 / Reference / Appendix
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_323555 |
| Date | January 2001 |
| Contributors | Koo, Wai-sze., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Sociology. |
| Source Sets | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Language | English, Chinese |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, bibliography |
| Format | print, vii, 162, [15] leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. |
| Coverage | China, Hong Kong, China, Hong Kong |
| Rights | Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
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