From "Civilising the Young" to a "Dead-End Job": Gender, Teaching, and the Politics of Colonial Rule in Hong Kong (1841-1970)

Autor/in	Chan, Anita Kit-wa
Titel	From "Civilising the Young" to a "Dead-End Job": Gender, Teaching, and the Politics of Colonial Rule in Hong Kong (1841-1970)
Quelle	In: History of Education, 41 (2012) 4, S.495-514 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0046-760X
DOI	10.1080/0046760X.2011.635603
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Foreign Policy; Teaching (Occupation); Females; Elementary School Teachers; Teacher Role; Educational History; Sex Role; Womens Education; English (Second Language); Second Language Instruction; Confucianism; Teacher Recruitment; Salary Wage Differentials; Politics of Education; Hong Kong + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Außenpolitik; Teaching; Lehrberuf; Weibliches Geschlecht; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Lehrerrolle; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Geschlechterrolle; 'Women''s education'; Frauenbildung; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Konfuzianismus; Lehrerrekrutierung; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Hongkong
Abstract	The feminisation of teaching is an important topic in education and gender studies. Discussions have been enriched by comparative and international studies as well as a gendering perspective in which a complicated view of the role of the state has emerged. In colonial Hong Kong, although the government was limited in its support of teacher training, its strategic control was not ineffective. Through regulating the teaching force, the colonial regime was instrumental in training women to help civilise the young and in creating a dead end job--that of a "primary school teacher". It also constantly (re)constructed the nature and role of "Chinese teacher" and "Chinese women". By revealing some seldom-explored strategies and disrupting the fixed meanings of "Chinese teacher", "Chinese women", and "primary school teacher", this paper unravels the intervention and (re)invention of the colonial regime in the teaching occupation and probes their implications for a patriarchal society. (Contains 2 figures and 97 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10