Philosophy of Tertiary Civic Education in Hong Kong: Formation of Trans-Cultural Political Vision

Public Administration and Policy: An Asia-Pacific Journal 18 (2) (2015)
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Abstract

This paper explores the philosophy of tertiary civic education in Hong Kong. It does not only investigate the role of tertiary education that can play in civic education, but also explores the way to achieve the aim of integrating liberal democratic citizenship and collective national identity in the context of persistent conflicts between two different identity politics in Hong Kong: politics of assimilation and politics of difference. As Hong Kong is part of China and is inevitably getting closer cooperation with the mainland in the future, I argue that Hong Kong citizenship should affirm its own distinctiveness while also identifying with Chinese nationality. Thus, tertiary civic education should foster a trans-cultural political vision so that the two different horizons can be synthesized and the political framework and identity can be transformed in order to reduce conflicts between the two peoples.

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Andrew Tsz Wan Hung
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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