Professor Leslie Nai-Kwai LO gave an informal talk on Education and Society for the International StudentsPublished:2013-10-10 15:19:32 Views:10
On Oct 10th, the newly appointed Senior Research Fellow, Professor Leslie Nai-Kwai LO delivered an informal talk on Education and Society for the international students. Around fifty international students attended the talk.
Professor Lo received his doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University. He has worked for three decades at the Chinese University of Hong Kong where he served as the founding dean of its Faculty of Education, a member of the university council and university senate, and the director of Hong Kong Institute of Educational Research. When he retired from the university last year, he was Wei Lun Chair Professor of Educational Administration and Policy.
After a short encounter with the MARIH students in Prof. YE Juyan’s lesson on the “System in Transition”, Professor Lo was invited enthusiastically by the students to give another talk as the students were impressed by his ability to bring abstract academic discourse and concepts into a practical and more holistic context.
The talk was divided into two sessions.
In the first session Prof. Lo spent around 40 minutes to introduce himself. Actually it wasn’t only an introduction, but an autobiography of him. He shared with the students his birthplace, his moving to Hong Kong, and his experience as a student in primary, secondary school and in university in America. The most fascinating part was that he reflected and narrated his experience with context, which provided the students vivid pictures of the education systems in Hong Kong and the USA under changing social and political context and its impact on individual life.
The second session was Q & A. As Prof. Lo has served as educational researcher and practitioner in the past thirties years, his vast experience, deep understanding of education systems in many different countries in the world enables him to entertained various questions from the students. His insightful thoughts on the transition of world higher education system and the value he sticks to as a teacher and scholar in university gave the students hope that even under the terror of performativity, there are still professors insisted on nurturing mind rather than publishing SSCI papers. Previous：
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