Gregory P Fairbrother
Biographic Data
| ID | 770099 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gregory P Fairbrother |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gregory P |
| FAMILY NAME | Fairbrother |
| SIGNATURE | FAIRBROTHER G P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Education University of Hong Kong |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
State Legitimation and Its Incorporation of Ideological-Political Education Teachers in China, 1979–2023
This study explores the Chinese state’s endeavor to reinforce its legitimacy in the domain of education during the reform era, focusing on school ideological-political education as a key vehicle. It examines the incorporation of ideological-political education teachers into the state’s legitimation project. Analysis of data from official documents and teacher interviews reveals that the incorporation process involves both state-driven and teacher…
Paternalism, National Citizenship, and Religiosity in Chinese State Legitimation Discourse
Forging consensus for implementing youth socialization policy in Northwest China
Guest Editor's Introduction
Between Britain and China: Hong Kong's citizenship education policy paradigm
This article offers a new explanation for considerable continuity in citizenship education policy in Hong Kong despite the change from British to Chinese sovereignty. Focusing on the form by which citizenship education is carried out and the instruments by which it has been promoted, the article argues that citizenship education has been both enabled and constrained by a distinctive policy paradigm developed out of traditional Chinese moral educa…
Protection by, or from, the Government: Debating citizenship education policy in Hong Kong's Legislative Council
This article discusses citizenship education, education policy and discourse to explore their relations with the exercise of power in society. Taking the case of 1990 and 1997 legislative debates on citizenship education policy in Hong Kong, it briefly surveys the substantive arguments favouring or opposing the retention of government controls over politics in schools. It then examines in more detail the discourses used by legislators which const…
Comparison to what end? Maximizing the potential of comparative education research
This article attends to comparative education scholars’ calls for more dialogue on the contribution of theory to comparative education research. It first presents the results of a review of a small sample of articles from comparative education related journals that elicited the purposes of their comparative research strategies in terms of exploration, explanation, argument, prediction, recommendation, and theory development. The article then disc…
Power and Right in Hong Kong's Citizenship Education
This article looks at the meaning of citizenship in Hong Kong over the last three decades by examining discussions of citizenship education among political executives, legislators, and educational policymakers. Drawing on Foucault's conceptions of power as discipline and government, and highlighting the relationships between power, rights, and freedom, it focuses on the values of responsibility, rights, democracy, and national identity in citizen…
Citizenship Education in Asia and the Pacific: Concepts and Issues
Citizenship Education in a Divided China, 1949‐1995
This article examines the reflection of national goals and ideologies in the civic education curricula of Mainland China and Taiwan. Acomparison of junior secondary school textbooks from the 1950s and the 1990s shows how the curriculum embodies the states’ changing national priorities and justificatory ideologies. Specifically, in the early period, the focus of the curriculum was on goals and values which distinguished each state from the other. …
Toward Critical Patriotism: Student Resistance to Political Education in Hong Kong and China
This book considers, in the context of political education in China and colonial Hong Kong, the effects of critical thinking on university students’ attitudes toward the nation. Its objective is to understand how students’ attitudes toward patriotism diverge from those held by the majority. The author uses a combination of documentary sources, interviews, ethnographic fieldwork and observation at secondary schools to address the central question …
The Effects of Political Education and Critical Thinking on Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese University Students' National Attitudes
In a context of patriotic education in Mainland China and depoliticised civic education in colonial Hong Kong, this article inquires into the nature of student resistance to state hegemonic political socialisation and examines the effects of critical thinking, as a form of resistance, on students' patriotism and nationalism. With data from questionnaires completed by 535 Hong Kong and Mainland university students, analyses of relationships among …
Guest Editor's Introduction
Quality education was a hot topic in Chinese educational circles in 1996. The wide-ranging discussion of quality education is a sign of a continuing debate about the basic philosophy of education in China: educate to select or educate to nurture; education for a few or education for all. As to the latter question, although the nation is on its way toward achieving the goal of schooling for all, there are those who would point out that the focus o…
The Effects of Political Education and Critical Thinking on Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese University Students' National Attitudes
In a context of patriotic education in Mainland China and depoliticised civic education in colonial Hong Kong, this article inquires into the nature of student resistance to state hegemonic political socialisation and examines the effects of critical thinking, as a form of resistance, on students' patriotism and nationalism. With data from questionnaires completed by 535 Hong Kong and Mainland university students, analyses of relationships among …
Power and Right in Hong Kong's Citizenship Education
This article looks at the meaning of citizenship in Hong Kong over the last three decades by examining discussions of citizenship education among political executives, legislators, and educational policymakers. Drawing on Foucault's conceptions of power as discipline and government, and highlighting the relationships between power, rights, and freedom, it focuses on the values of responsibility, rights, democracy, and national identity in citizen…
Protection by, or from, the Government: Debating citizenship education policy in Hong Kong's Legislative Council
This article discusses citizenship education, education policy and discourse to explore their relations with the exercise of power in society. Taking the case of 1990 and 1997 legislative debates on citizenship education policy in Hong Kong, it briefly surveys the substantive arguments favouring or opposing the retention of government controls over politics in schools. It then examines in more detail the discourses used by legislators which const…
Comparison to what end? Maximizing the potential of comparative education research
This article attends to comparative education scholars’ calls for more dialogue on the contribution of theory to comparative education research. It first presents the results of a review of a small sample of articles from comparative education related journals that elicited the purposes of their comparative research strategies in terms of exploration, explanation, argument, prediction, recommendation, and theory development. The article then disc…
Citizenship Education in a Divided China, 1949‐1995
This article examines the reflection of national goals and ideologies in the civic education curricula of Mainland China and Taiwan. Acomparison of junior secondary school textbooks from the 1950s and the 1990s shows how the curriculum embodies the states’ changing national priorities and justificatory ideologies. Specifically, in the early period, the focus of the curriculum was on goals and values which distinguished each state from the other. …
Paternalism, National Citizenship, and Religiosity in Chinese State Legitimation Discourse
Forging consensus for implementing youth socialization policy in Northwest China
Guest Editor's Introduction
Between Britain and China: Hong Kong's citizenship education policy paradigm
This article offers a new explanation for considerable continuity in citizenship education policy in Hong Kong despite the change from British to Chinese sovereignty. Focusing on the form by which citizenship education is carried out and the instruments by which it has been promoted, the article argues that citizenship education has been both enabled and constrained by a distinctive policy paradigm developed out of traditional Chinese moral educa…
Guest Editor's Introduction
Quality education was a hot topic in Chinese educational circles in 1996. The wide-ranging discussion of quality education is a sign of a continuing debate about the basic philosophy of education in China: educate to select or educate to nurture; education for a few or education for all. As to the latter question, although the nation is on its way toward achieving the goal of schooling for all, there are those who would point out that the focus o…
Toward Critical Patriotism: Student Resistance to Political Education in Hong Kong and China
This book considers, in the context of political education in China and colonial Hong Kong, the effects of critical thinking on university students’ attitudes toward the nation. Its objective is to understand how students’ attitudes toward patriotism diverge from those held by the majority. The author uses a combination of documentary sources, interviews, ethnographic fieldwork and observation at secondary schools to address the central question …
The Effects of Political Education and Critical Thinking on Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese University Students' National Attitudes
In a context of patriotic education in Mainland China and depoliticised civic education in colonial Hong Kong, this article inquires into the nature of student resistance to state hegemonic political socialisation and examines the effects of critical thinking, as a form of resistance, on students' patriotism and nationalism. With data from questionnaires completed by 535 Hong Kong and Mainland university students, analyses of relationships among …
Citizenship Education in Asia and the Pacific: Concepts and Issues
Citizenship Education in a Divided China, 1949‐1995
This article examines the reflection of national goals and ideologies in the civic education curricula of Mainland China and Taiwan. Acomparison of junior secondary school textbooks from the 1950s and the 1990s shows how the curriculum embodies the states’ changing national priorities and justificatory ideologies. Specifically, in the early period, the focus of the curriculum was on goals and values which distinguished each state from the other. …
Comparison to what end? Maximizing the potential of comparative education research
This article attends to comparative education scholars’ calls for more dialogue on the contribution of theory to comparative education research. It first presents the results of a review of a small sample of articles from comparative education related journals that elicited the purposes of their comparative research strategies in terms of exploration, explanation, argument, prediction, recommendation, and theory development. The article then disc…
Power and Right in Hong Kong's Citizenship Education
This article looks at the meaning of citizenship in Hong Kong over the last three decades by examining discussions of citizenship education among political executives, legislators, and educational policymakers. Drawing on Foucault's conceptions of power as discipline and government, and highlighting the relationships between power, rights, and freedom, it focuses on the values of responsibility, rights, democracy, and national identity in citizen…
Guest Editor's Introduction
Between Britain and China: Hong Kong's citizenship education policy paradigm
This article offers a new explanation for considerable continuity in citizenship education policy in Hong Kong despite the change from British to Chinese sovereignty. Focusing on the form by which citizenship education is carried out and the instruments by which it has been promoted, the article argues that citizenship education has been both enabled and constrained by a distinctive policy paradigm developed out of traditional Chinese moral educa…
Protection by, or from, the Government: Debating citizenship education policy in Hong Kong's Legislative Council
This article discusses citizenship education, education policy and discourse to explore their relations with the exercise of power in society. Taking the case of 1990 and 1997 legislative debates on citizenship education policy in Hong Kong, it briefly surveys the substantive arguments favouring or opposing the retention of government controls over politics in schools. It then examines in more detail the discourses used by legislators which const…
Forging consensus for implementing youth socialization policy in Northwest China
Paternalism, National Citizenship, and Religiosity in Chinese State Legitimation Discourse
State Legitimation and Its Incorporation of Ideological-Political Education Teachers in China, 1979–2023
This study explores the Chinese state’s endeavor to reinforce its legitimacy in the domain of education during the reform era, focusing on school ideological-political education as a key vehicle. It examines the incorporation of ideological-political education teachers into the state’s legitimation project. Analysis of data from official documents and teacher interviews reveals that the incorporation process involves both state-driven and teacher…
Political science (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (8 works) · China (6 works) · Citizenship (5 works) · Law (5 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (4 works) · Citizenship education (4 works)