scholarly journals The (Un)Changing Role of Mandarin Chinese in Language Education in Hong Kong

1996 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheung-Shing ◽  
Samuel Leung ◽  
Yuen-Fan Lornita Wong
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Mandarin Chinese ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Education In Hong Kong

scholarly journals Negotiating Educated Subjectivity: Intern Labour and Higher Education in Hong Kong

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 501-508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iam-chong Ip
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Career Paths ◽  
Labour Supply ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Cultural Industries ◽  
Work Identity ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Education In Hong Kong

This article examines interns’ negotiation of their work identity, with a focus on the nexus of transformations in higher education and the “new” capitalist economy. The existing literature on internships emphasizes the restructuring of employment in creative and cultural industries, the surplus cultural labour supply, and the impact of internships on the career paths of educated youth mostly in western countries. Based on interviews and participant observation in Hong Kong, I argue that the intern’s “educated subjectivity,” nurtured by new values and practices of higher education such as self-reflexive learning and interfacing with community, plays an important role in the making of the intern economy. These values and practices contribute to the ambiguity and elasticity of the role of interns identified in previous research on internships.  

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