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Promoting All-Round Education for Girls

Promoting All-Round Education for Girls

A History of Heep Yunn School, Hong Kong

by Patricia P. K. Chiu
Paperback
Publication Date: 20/05/2021

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Promoting All-Round Education for Girls presents the history of Heep Yunn School, one of the oldest girls' schools in Hong Kong. Amalgamated from two British mission schools founded in the 1880s for destitute girls and daughters of Christian parents, and renamed Heep Yunn School in 1936, the institution has witnessed and responded to the dramatic changes of Hong Kong over the years. By the time of the outbreak of the Second World War, Heep Yunn had expanded to offer a full Chinese middle school course for girls based upon Christian principles of all-round education. The school expanded rapidly after the war and became a bilingual institution to meet the demand for English language education. Eventually English would become the primary medium of instruction soon after the introduction of nine-year universal education in 1978. Heep Yunn strives to provide a full-fledged all-round education in the midst of political and education reforms. The school opted to switch its status from a government-aided school to a direct subsidy scheme school in the early 2010s so as to retain a larger degree of autonomy. This history of Heep Yunn School documents the concerted efforts of the school council, staff, students, alumnae, and parents to achieve the evolving visions of Christian education for girls as Hong Kong grew from a colonial trading port to a global financial centre in the twenty-first century.
ISBN:
9789888528394
9789888528394
Category:
Asian history
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
20-05-2021
Language:
English
Publisher:
Hong Kong University Press
Country of origin:
Hong Kong
Dimensions (mm):
254x177.8x17.78mm
Weight:
0.51kg

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