Knowledge Exchange e-Resources Project for New Secondary School Liberal
Studies
The Hong Kong University Press will provide a range of free digital resource for
students and teachers of Liberal Studies under the New Hong Kong Senior
Secondary School Curriculum. The digital resource will be available at a new
portal jointly developed by the Press and Hong Kong Education City launched
on 1 June 2010.
“Society & Culture: Life in Hong Kong under ‘One Country, Two Systems’” is
one of the compulsory parts of the NSS Liberal Studies curriculum.
Students
need to collect, analyse and discuss topics relating to the Basic Law,
legal-political system, and socio-economic conditions in Hong Kong. The
new curriculum also adopts an “issue-enquiry approach”, through which
students are required to develop their own views, construct personal
knowledge, and become critical thinkers.
Although many resources are available on the internet and through other
channels, authoritative, research-oriented, credited and copyright-free
resources are lacking.
With the support of the Knowledge Exchange Fund of
the University Grant Committee, the Hong Kong University Press has converted
32 English books into digital resource, on subjects ranging from politics and
sociology to public health, education and social work.
The digital resource
will be hosted in Hong Kong Education City and will be freely accessible to
senior secondary school teachers and students in Hong Kong. Teachers and
students can use the copyright-free content on the HKEdCity portal
(www.hkedcity.net) for their Liberal Studies projects and for general study.
In order to announce this important Knowledge Exchange Project by the
University of Hong Kong, Professor John Bacon-Shone, Associate Director of
the Knowledge Exchange Office, Ms Ng MeiMei, Executive Director of Hong
Kong Education City, and Mr Michael Duckworth, Publisher of Hong Kong
University Press will co-host a press conference on 10 June 2010, 2:30 pm in
Room G07, Main Building, The University of Hong Kong.
For further enquiries, please contact Joseph Siu of Hong Kong University Press
at joesiukw@hku.hk or tel (2552 4789).
The list of eBook titles
Title
Language
Topic
Year
A Documentary History of HK: Government and Politics
English
HK history
1995
A Documentary History of HK: Society
English
HK history
1997
At Home with Density
English
HK Housing
2003
Building Democracy
English
Politics, HK
2003
Building Hong Kong: Environmental Considerations
English
City Planning, HK
2000
Changing Church and State Relations in Hong Kong, 1950-2000
English
HK Religion
2003
Collaborative Colonial Power: The Making of the Hong Kong Chinese
English
HK sociology
2009
Post-1997, China HK
Colonial Hong Kong and Modern China: Interaction and Reintegration
English
relation
2005
Consuming Hong Kong
English
HK sociology
2001
Contemporary Hong Kong Politics: Governance in the Post-1997 Era
English
Post-1997, politics
2007
Education in Hong Kong, 1941 to 2001
English
Education, HK
2004
Education Reform and the Quest for Excellence
English
Education, HK
2005
Legislative Council
English
HK Legal
2006
Hong Kong Landscapes Shaping the Barren Rock
English
HK Geography
2007
Hong Kong's Constitutional Debate: Conflict Over Interpretation
English
Post-1997, legal
2000
Hong Kong's Health System: Reflections, Perspectives and Visions
English
Post-1997, health system
2006
Hong Kong's Housing Policy: A Case Study in Social Justice
English
HK housing
2008
Sovereignty and the Basic Law
English
Post-1997, legal
1997
Information Technology and the Challenge for Hong Kong
English
HK Technology
1997
English
HK sociology
2005
Hong Kong's Railway
English
HK Transport
2008
National Security and Fundamental Freedoms
English
Politics, HK
2005
Society
English
Post-1997, politics
2007
Public Sector in Hong Kong, The
English
HK Public sector
2009
Functional Constituencies: A Unique Feature of the Hong Kong
Hong Kong's New Constitutional Order: The Resumption of Chinese
Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage: Professional Practice in the Hong
Kong Cultural Context
Moving Millions: The Commercial Success and Political Controversies of
Political Development in Hong Kong: State, Political Society, and Civil
Post-1997, HK social
Reclaimed Land: Hong Kong in Transition
English
The Civil Service in Hong Kong
English
change
Public admin, HK
2002
1998
The Dynamics of Beijing-Hong Kong Relations: A Model for Taiwan?
English
Post-1997, politics
2008
The Dynamics of Social Movements in Hong Kong
English
HK sociology
2000
The New Legal Order in Hong Kong
English
Post-1997, legal
1999
English
HK Education
2003
HK Culture and Politics
2009
HK Culture
2006
Toward Critical Patriotism: Student Resistance to Political Education in
Hong Kong and China
Complex
香港文化与政治
Chinese
Complex
香港‧文化‧研究
Chinese