Education and Society in Hong Kong and Macao

Mark Bray is Chair Professor of Comparative Education at the University of Hong Kong. Ramses Koo is a Senior Lecturer at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. Both have long experience of research on education in Hong Kong and Macao; and both are active in professional societies concerned with comparative education.

• Levels and Sub-sectors.- Preschool Education.- Primary and Secondary Schooling.- Higher Education.- Teacher Education.- Lifelong Learning and Adult Education.- Political, Economic and Social Issues.- Church, State and Education.- Higher Education, Imperialism and Colonial Transition.- Higher Education and the Labour Force.- Language and Education.- Curriculum Policies and Processes.- Curriculum Reform.- Civic and Political Education.- Secondary School History Curricula.- Secondary School Mathematics Curricula.- Conclusions.- Methodology and Focus in Comparative Education.- Continuity and Change in Education.

From the reviews of the second edition: "The second edition of this book, published as Volume 7 of the highly reputed CERC Studies in Comparative Education, is remarkable ... . Its quality is ... demonstrated by the authors' efforts not only to update and intensify the descriptive substance of their chapters, but also to go more deeply into the historical, political and theoretical dimensions of their contextual analyses. ... It is needless to add that the list of bibliographical references has been considerably widened, which reinforces the recommendation ... ." (Wolfgang Mitter, Review of Education, Vol. 51, 2005)