A Digital Scholarship Project on Materialism Among Children and Adolescents

2019 ◽  
pp. 159-180
Author(s):  
Kara Chan ◽  
Laying Tam ◽  
Annie Yan Yi Lo
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Digital Scholarship ◽  
Commercial Communication ◽  
The University

The chapter discusses a digital scholarship project collaborated between the Department of Communication Studies and the University Library of Hong Kong Baptist University. The main objective of the project is to develop a publicly accessible website to showcase the various research methodologies used in 14 studies conducted by the first author as well as their findings. These 14 studies were carried out to analyze how materialism affected children and youth in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Macao (Macau), and Singapore. The website shares original data sets, research instruments, interview transcripts, and drawings of interviewees. More importantly, research results are visualized in an interactive manner. It is hoped that the website could facilitate other researchers to develop models, test hypothesis, and conduct cross cultural analysis on materialism. The website is also designed to provide guidelines for educators and parents to counteract the undesirable effect of commercial communication to children and youth. This chapter discusses the research and the digital projects, marketing strategies of the website, and self-reflection of the first author.

scholarly journals Mainland Non-English-Major Students’ Perceptions of English Academic Writing in the Taught Postgraduate Program in Hong Kong: A Needs Analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Jiangping Chen
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
English Education ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Needs Analysis ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Master's Degrees ◽  
English Major ◽  
English Academic Writing ◽  
The University

<p><em>As higher education is being internationalized globally, it is also not rare to find degree programs delivered in English, the world’s lingua franca, in countries where English is learned as a foreign language. In mainland China, such courses are available for bachelor and master’s degrees. Accordingly, students in those programs have to meet the academic English requirements, by which writing is assumed to be the most challenging. This small-scale research was conducted among 81 mainland non-English-major students studying in the taught postgraduate program in Hong Kong, with the instruments of questionnaires and follow-up interviews. Within the framework of needs analysis, it reports their detailed perceptions of English academic writing. Results indicate that those upper-intermediate language learners are generally able to get accustomed to academic writing in English, but some writing skills, and particularly language issues (academic lexis, grammar, and style) pose challenges to their studies. The article concludes with some feasible pedagogical implications for updating the university English education system in mainland China.</em></p>

scholarly journals A Comparative Study of Language Attitudes in Hong Kong: Towards English, Cantonese and Putonghua

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaokai Liu
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Language Attitudes ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Language Preference ◽  
Quantitative Investigation ◽  
Local Dialect ◽  
Pragmatic Function ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
Local Students ◽  
The University

20 years have elapsed since Hong Kong has returned to China and the connections with Mainland China are growing in different domains. Especially, the universities in Hong Kong attracted a large number of Mainland students and the number is increasing. Therefore, it is interesting to examine the language attitudes towards English (the former British colonial language), Cantonese (the local dialect) and Putonghua (the third official language) from the perspective of local students and Mainland students. The study reported in this thesis is a quantitative investigation of 30 local students and 30 Mainland students from different disciplines at City University of Hong Kong. Their attitudes towards three languages were compared in terms of integrative orientation and instrumental orientation. The results revealed the local students hold a more integrative attitude and showed their strong loyalty to Cantonese while Mainland students showed integrative attitude and favored the use of more Putonghua in different language contexts. English was still regarded as a prestigious language from both the integrative and instrumental perspective by the local students and the Mainland students. Besides, interactional language preference between the Mainland students and the Local students was also investigated and the result showed English was the most preferable language. The findings of this study suggest Cantonese remains as a strong dialect; English still will be the linguistic capital and the pragmatic function Putonghua is developing well in Hong Kong. Results also indicate subtle transition towards Trilingualism among the university students in Hong Kong.

Production of New and Revised A.A.V.S.O. Charts

1979 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 368
Author(s):  
Clinton B. Ford
Keyword(s):  
Variable Star ◽  
Standard Form ◽  
Original Data ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Standard Format ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
The Gift ◽  
The University

A “new charts program” for the Americal Association of Variable Star Observers was instigated in 1966 via the gift to the Association of the complete variable star observing records, charts, photographs, etc. of the late Prof. Charles P. Olivier of the University of Pennsylvania (USA). Adequate material covering about 60 variables, not previously charted by the AAVSO, was included in this original data, and was suitably charted in reproducible standard format.Since 1966, much additional information has been assembled from other sources, three Catalogs have been issued which list the new or revised charts produced, and which specify how copies of same may be obtained. The latest such Catalog is dated June 1978, and lists 670 different charts covering a total of 611 variables none of which was charted in reproducible standard form previous to 1966.

Outcomes: Promoting Reflective Practice Using Performance Indicator Questionnaires

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Pat McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Education ◽  
Performance Indicator ◽  
Clinical Skills ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Clinical Practicum ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Healthcare Settings ◽  
Language Pathology ◽  
Traditional Performance ◽  
The University

This article details the process of self-reflection applied to the use of traditional performance indicator questionnaires. The study followed eight speech-language pathology graduate students enrolled in clinical practicum in the university, school, and healthcare settings over a period of two semesters. Results indicated when reflection was focused on students' own clinical skills, modifications to practice were implemented. Results further concluded self-assessment using performance indicators paired with written reflections can be a viable form of instruction in clinical education.

Trade Ties between Hong Kong and Mainland China

Asian Survey ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 820-839
Author(s):  
Patrick Yeung
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Mainland China

Re-thinking morbidity and mortality

Diagnosis ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumner Abraham ◽  
Andrew Parsons ◽  
Brian Uthlaut ◽  
Peggy Plews-Ogan
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Biases ◽  
Diagnostic Errors ◽  
Dual Process ◽  
Morbidity And Mortality ◽  
Dual Process Theory ◽  
Habits Of Mind ◽  
Thought Processes ◽  
University Of Virginia ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
The University

AbstractDespite the breadth of patient safety initiatives, physicians talking about their mistakes to other physicians is a difficult thing to do. This difficulty may be exacerbated by a limited exposure to how to analyze and discuss mistakes and respond in a productive way. At the University of Virginia, we recognized the importance of understanding cognitive biases for residents in both their clinical and personal professional development. We re-designed our resident led morbidity and mortality (M&M) conference using a model that integrates dual-process theory and metacognition to promote informed reflection and analysis of cognitive diagnostic errors. We believe that structuring M&M in this way builds a culture that encourages reflection together to learn our most difficult diagnostic errors and to engage in where our thought processes went wrong. In slowly building this culture, we hope to inoculate residents with the habits of mind that can best protect them from harmful biases in their clinical reasoning while instilling a culture of self-reflection.

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