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沒有年齡的課室 : 跨代共學實務手冊
Full text link由周大福慈善基金及和悦慈善基金共同捐助、和悦社會企業舉辦的「沒有年齡的課室」項目，建構香港首個跨代學習空間，推動「長幼共學」理念，讓長者及幼童共同體驗成長及學習的過程，增加跨代互動，促進了解及尊重。
《沒有年齡的課室 : 跨代共學實務手冊》收錄了嶺南大學亞太老年學研究中心為「沒有年齡的課室」項目進行的成效評估研究結果，同時收錄了教學團隊設計的課程教案及活動設計，記錄曾面對的困難和具體改善建議，供有意舉辦跨代共學活動的幼兒及社福機構參考。https://commons.ln.edu.hk/apias_guide/1010/thumbnail.jp
嶺南通訊 Lingnan Newsletter (第192期)
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Lingnan Gardeners Newsletter (No. 72) = 彩園通訊 (第72期)
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Transnational higher education and quality assurance : a study of 2+2 student learning experience from Sino-UK cooperative universities
No full textBackground: The unavoidable effects of globalisation and increased competition amongst nations have fuelled students’ pursuit of international higher education. In response to this development, the adoption of transnational higher education has become a major global trend. For instance, the Chinese Ministry of Education (MoE) initiated Sino–foreign cooperative education in different forms to reform its education system whilst introducing high-quality educational resources from overseas. As one of the most popular forms, the articulation programme (2+2 programme) has attracted many students. Thus, the quality assurance of this programme warrants further exploration.
Aims and objectives of the study: The present study focuses on students’ perceptions of their learning in the 2+2 programme. Students from this programme spend two years studying in China and two years studying abroad to achieve their degree, thus gaining study experiences in their home and their host university. Accordingly, the intercultural experiences of these students have been extensively investigated. However, only a few studies have focused on the teaching and learning resources in this programme to assess its internal quality assurance. This study aims to fill this gap by exploring the students’ perceptions of their learning from the lens of the prospective approach model (Tsiligiris & Hill, 2019). Explorations within this theoretical framework provide practical implications for stakeholders in formulating policies to develop the quality management of the 2+2 programme.
Methods: This study regards students as internal stakeholders and acknowledges their right to provide suggestions and engage in governance to improve the quality of transnational higher education (TNHE) at the grassroots level. This study adopts a qualitative method to explore the defects of quality assurance for the improvements and developments of quality management in the 2+2 programme. Annual quality reports of universities and regulations formulated from home and host countries are analysed. A total of 30 valid interviewees were recruited from Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University and the University of Nottingham Ningbo China in early 2023 via purposive sampling.
Findings: The analysis of quality assurance reports and relevant policies reveals some rigidity flaws in the process of quality assurance. For a long time, quantitative and measurable indicators have been used in the evaluation. In this study, internal stakeholders are introduced into the analysis of the development of quality assurance at Sino–UK cooperative universities. In the interviews, the students have expressed their satisfaction with their learning experiences, and such satisfaction is evaluated using quantitative and measurable indicators. Most of these students’ perceptions of their learning in Sino–UK cooperative universities generally match or exceed their initial expectations. However, some insights from these interviews have been overlooked in the quality assurance process. For instance, if the proactive role of students is ignored, then the assessments of these quantitative and qualitative metrics in annual quality reports could fully align with these students’ descriptions of their learning experiences. In fact, students’ expectations in some areas, such as teaching quality and autonomy in Sino–UK cooperative universities, have not been met.
Discussion and conclusion: The results of the study highlight some gaps between policy and reality by analysing documents from competent authorities, annual quality reports of universities and students’ perceptions. The empirical results address the research gaps concerning the quality management of the 2+2 programme by exploring the perceptions of students participating in such programme. At the policy level, this study develops a framework that introduces students as stakeholders based on the prospective model for the development of quality assurance. The findings emphasise the importance for policymakers to take into account these students’ voices in the quality assurance process of TNHE programmes. By recognising the shortcomings in traditional, quantitative measures of satisfaction, this research advocates for the development of a more student-centred approach to policy formulation, which involves integrating qualitative feedback mechanisms into the quality assurance framework and aligning educational policies with the diverse needs of students. This study further recommends the MoE and other regulatory bodies to re-evaluate their existing quality assurance practices to better accommodate the dynamic interaction between student expectations and the actual educational offerings of the 2+2 programme. This research provides valuable insights for the reform and improvement of Sino–UK cooperative education strategies, aiming to optimise educational outcomes and student satisfaction. Such exploration and theoretical discussion provide a direction for integrating top–down and bottom–up approaches in policy formulation. Stakeholders should improve the quality of student resources, adjust the teaching context and optimise the governance network in quality management
Implications of the absence and barriers to cross-border pension portability (CBPP) : a study of Ghanaian health workers\u27 experiences and return prospects from the United States of America
No full textThe introduction of Cross-border Pension Portability (CBPP) schemes to help migrants port, transfer, and assess their contributory social security benefits from host nations to their home country has been applauded by international organisations. Nevertheless, such agreements are increasingly prevalent among rich-rich countries while developing countries, especially African countries, are lagging behind. In the absence of such agreements, migrants who have contributed to the host country\u27s social security system may be swayed by the prospect of forfeiting these contributions when they return and choose to stay at places they would rather not be at retirement. This thesis responds to these concerns by using interviews to examine the implication of the absence of CBPP for Ghanaian health workers in the United States, the possible feasibility challenges of implementing CBPP between Ghana and the United States, and the various factors that play a role in return migration decisions.
I draw on neo-classical economic labour migration theory, new economic labour migration theory, structural theory, and the life course theory. The study involved 28 Ghanaian health workers in New York and 4 social security officials in Ghana as expert informants to help elucidate the underlying context-specific challenges peculiar to Ghana. This qualitative study has provided a contextual understanding of the implication of the absence of CBPP in the experiences of migrants, which further explains why Ghana may be falling out of CBPP. The study\u27s findings shed light on how migrants\u27 perception of institutions back home influences the feasibility of CBPP and their preference for unilateral over bilateral CBPPs. Other findings bordered on the maturity of data security systems in Ghana to handle shareable information that may be characterised in such agreements. Also, matters on the exchange rate, previous employment history back home, time and age of migration, and its overall impact on the feasibility of implementing CBPPs were discovered. The study discovered that Ghanaian migrants face unique integrational challenges, such as unrecognised educational qualifications, which further affect their social security eligibility status in host nations when they retire. After they are eligible, they are constrained by stringent social security conditionalities that compel them to extend their stays and, consequently, their work life to await the attainment of citizenship. They rely on citizenship as a portability tool since only Americans can assess their pensions anywhere in the world. Without this, migrants can only stay outside the US for a limited period.
The study has significantly contributed to developing a conceptual framework that identifies some factors of return migration, such as health, source of finance, family, safety, and location of property as the main factors of return migration. The study further proves these factors are hierarchical, beginning with health as prime and ending with property location as auxiliary. The study establishes that decisions to return are made based on choice (Preferred) or rationality (best option). The research contributes to the ongoing discourse on CBPP for migrants, providing insights into the need for a tailored CBPP scheme for some developing countries to protect migrants\u27 rights to their accrued benefits
A study on the localisation of home-based elderly services in Chinese urban communities
No full textAt present, China\u27s basic support and service system for the elderly is still in a state of continuous construction. Due to the diminishing effectiveness of the home-based model and the increasing costs of institutional care, these traditional models are unable to meet the increasing demand for elderly services in China. After considering the actual elderly service resources and learning from overseas experience, China is now more suitable for a model of home-based, community-supported home-based elderly services in communities. Home-based elderly services in communities is a form of elderly service under socialism with Chinese characteristics that is beneficial to all social elderly subjects (Wu, 2019).
China\u27s central government has formulated a national policy on home-based elderly services in communities based on the demand for such services, each local government implements its own policy measures under the guidance of policy documents. The socio-economic, social construction, and cultural attributes of China\u27s regions differ greatly, the uniform policies designed at the top level do not comprehensively take into account the specificities of each city itself. Each local government should take into account the actual situation of the local area, and supplement the details of the unified policy to formulate and implement it. The unified policy in the detailed formulation and implementation of the localised characteristics, the formation of localised characteristics. Accordingly, each city has gradually developed its own home-based elderly services in communities with its own characteristics.
In 2021, the State Council of China issued a policy document entitled 14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of the National Elderly Programme and Elderly Service System to local governments. The Chinese government hopes to create a happiness project for the elderly in China. This policy document clearly states that the goal is to create a happy and satisfying retirement life for the elderly. However, most of the current research on home-based elderly services in urban communities focuses on elderly service policies and increasing financial inputs, which is an old-fashioned perspective, and the industry has generally neglected the policy goals of happiness and satisfaction . Starting from this policy objective, this study makes use of the performance characteristics of full implementation, flexible implementation, experimental implementation and symbolic implementation in the path-incentive analysis framework. The criteria for city choice are constructed from the variables of clarity of the path of home-based elderly services in communities and degree of incentive for local governments . Combined with local pre-survey data, four cities, namely Guangzhou, Zhoushan, Zhenjiang and Heyuan, were selected. Then, in-depth research was conducted on the types of home-based elderly services in communities to which they belonged.
This study uses the policy localisation theory, the hierarchy of needs theory, and combines the theoretical foundations of the inter-governmental relations theory to design self-administered scales, questionnaire questions, and interview questions. The analysis part of the study uses the first-hand information obtained from the questionnaire survey method and the interview analysis method to objectively analyse and study the overall home-based elderly services in urban communities in the four selected case cities from the perspectives of policy formulation, policy implementation and policy evaluation. The current situation of home-based elderly services in urban communities is assessed and summarised. The study then evaluates the effectiveness of the implementation of home-based elderly services in several cities in terms of the satisfaction of the elderly, and then ranks the effectiveness of the implementation of home-based elderly services in order to highlight the specific characteristics and influencing factors of the implementation of each type of home-based elderly services in each city. Ultimately, leveraging Guangzhou, a city renowned for its exemplary full implementation, as a benchmark, the study pinpoints disparities, challenges, and issues inherent in the varying aspects of home-based elderly care services across urban communities in three other case cities. Upon comparing these three cities, the underlying causes are discerned, and proactive recommendations are proffered to refine the administrative framework governing home-based elderly services, fortify localized policy research endeavors, bolster dynamic monitoring of service delivery, optimize intergovernmental communication, cultivate a heightened sense of critical awareness among administrative and frontline personnel, and amplify the central government\u27s support for underserved cities. This will enable local governments to optimise their own urban programmes in the light of their own experiences in implementing these services, thus promoting the improvement of home-based elderly services in urban communities in China, increasing the satisfaction of the elderly in their retirement life, and contributing to the happiness of the elderly in their twilight years
Book launch event : Son of Hong Kong, historian of China : the English writings of Ming K. Chan
No full text圖書館於2024年8月19日舉辦《Son of Hong Kong, Historian of China: The English Writings of Ming K. Chan》新書發布會。此書匯集了已故歷史學家陳明銶教授最重要的英文著作，讓讀者以一個嶄新的角度了解香港在中國近代史的角色和重要性。
日期︰2024年8月19日 (星期一)時間︰下午3:00 - 5:00地點︰嶺南大學圖書館一樓活動室（Activity Room）語言︰廣東話（輔以英文）
主講嘉賓： Mr. CHAU Yick 周奕先生, 《香港工運史》著者 Mr. Alen LEUNG 梁寶龍先生, 香港工運史研究者 Dr. Kent WAN 溫柏堅博士, 南京大學中華民國史研究中心助理研究員 Prof. Peter FONG 方國榮教授, 香港公共行政學會會長
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Race and power in colonial literature : Somerset Maugham’s \u3ci\u3eThe Force of Circumstance\u3c/i\u3e and \u3ci\u3eThe Yellow Streak\u3c/i\u3e
No full textThis paper looks at two of Somerset Maugham’s short stories, The Yellow Streak and The Force of Circumstance, both of which were written in the colonialist times and thus share a lot of the same themes related to miscegenation and the acknowledgement of the disparities between white and non-white people that were prevalent during that time. By exploring different features of the text, including characters, language use and its relevance to Maugham’s life experiences, this paper aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the representation of racial prejudice in Maugham’s works
在困苦中狂歡——《鋼的琴》與《冬泳》中的東北敘事
Full text link近年來，隨著以班宇，雙學濤，鄭執為代表的「鐵西三劍客」在文壇上的崛起，以及影視上對《漫長的季節》（2023）與《鋼的琴》（2010）等作品的關注，東北敘事正憑藉其有別於傳統地域文學的獨特體驗，愈來愈成為一種帶有事件意義的傳播現象，並成為活躍在敘事內外的方法。
本文深耕班宇小說〈冬泳〉與張猛作品《鋼的琴》，以跨媒介的方式聯繫文字與影像，串係時代暗流，並借助巴赫金的狂歡理論，探究兩部作品中狂歡廣場的搭建，狂歡小丑的形象設計以及通過狂歡化的語言所製造出的狂歡體驗。
在以上的框架內本文共分為兩部：首先，在東北歷史脈絡的基礎上本文對兩部作品的背景進行了聯繫，儘管時間背景在九十年代末與千禧之後，但在一前一後的時間承繼上，將《鋼的琴》與〈冬泳〉一並討論，在如何更好的展現東北不同時代的相同困苦與病症是本文出發的基礎與下文強調狂歡理論意義的關鍵。
其次，通過狂歡理論中的各個元素，本文將對兩部作品進行細讀分析與對比，探究這種來自作品，來自真實生活的狂歡體驗探如何在面對現實的沈重困苦中展現出東北人民的超人意志，並用旺盛不絕的生命力回擊生活
Departure
Full text link在這篇遊記小說中，作者詳細記錄了自己在歐洲交流期間的體驗和心路歷程。主角在歐洲的旅程不僅是地理上的漫遊，也是對自我、生活和愛情的深刻探索。從初到歐洲時的無助和迷茫，到逐漸融入當地文化，再到與朋友和愛人間的情感交織，讓她對未來充滿期待。
在立陶宛的日子裡，主角不僅體驗了當地的文化和生活，也結識了來自世界各地的朋友，豐富了人生視野。
每個城市的旅行不僅是地點的轉換，更是一次次自我探索和反思的過程。從奧斯威辛的沉重到葡萄牙的陽光，再到歐洲各地的美食體驗，讓主角對生活有了更深的理解和感悟。
小說的結尾，主角帶著對過去的回憶和對未來的期待回到香港，心中充滿了對旅行中遇到的人和事的感激。這段旅程不僅是一次地理上的跨越，更是心靈和情感的成長之旅。
這是一部關於青春、夢想、愛情和成長的小說，讓讀者在主角的旅程中找到共鳴，也鼓勵着每個人勇敢追求自己的夢想，不斷探索和成長