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ERIC Number: EJ549627
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0305-0068
Hong Kong's Change of Sovereignty: School Leader Perceptions of the Effects on Educational Policy and School Administration.
Dimmock, Clive; Walker, Allan
Comparative Education, v33 n2 p277-302 Jun 1997
Interviews with nine principals of Hong Kong schools found that faced with uncertainties arising from Hong Kong's political transition, principals were somewhat confident about coping with changes in curricula and school management but felt less control over broader changes in access and opportunity following the expected influx of teachers and students from mainland China. Contains 42 references. (SV)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Civics, Coping, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Mobility, Foreign Countries, Institutional Environment, Principals, Professional Autonomy, Religious Education, School Based Management, Social Change
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: China; Hong Kong
Note: Special number (19): Education and Political Transition: Implications of Hong Kong's Change of Sovereignty.