Parting Pathways: Career Advising across Hong Kong Secondary Schools
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Career advising services at secondary schools are no longer mainly about course selection and college options, but are offered alongside guidance on life planning. In Hong Kong, the Career and Life Planning Grant (CLPG) has been recently introduced to boost secondary schools’ capacities at offering career advising and life planning services. Despite this, the types and focus of services received by students through their schools vary. This paper reports the descriptive and textual analyses of the CLPG plans of 24 government-aided secondary schools of different tiers in three districts in Hong Kong. Specifically, this study explores how these schools strategize using the Grant, the messages embedded within these strategies, and students’ postsecondary career trajectories. This study finds that stratification of students occurs within and between schools, and that students’ post-secondary trajectories are more tied to school tier than school location. The findings are discussed against the backdrop of the competitive nature of education in Hong Kong.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Date created | July 2017 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Khoo, May Yee |
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Subjects
| Subject | Career advising |
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| Subject | life planning |
| Subject | secondary school |
| Subject | Hong Kong |
| Subject | Stanford Graduate School of Education International Education Policy Analysis |
| Genre | Thesis |
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