Interview

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Editor-In-Chief: POON, Sin Yi Teresa Executive Editor: JI, Mingxia RinaBoard Members: WONG, Wik Ki Wikki KWOK, Hiu Ting Alice WONG, Yuen Ling Rachel LEUNG, Chi On Friedrich NG, Tsz Yan Florence JIA, Nan Amy (EdD student)

Postgraduate Summer School and Research Conference 2013

Summer Study Tour for RPg Students Spring Gathering for Postgraduate Students

Education Exhibition in Greater China

Student Presentation

Sharing

Rpg&EdD Update

By Students of PhD, EdD and MEd Programmes

Prof. Paul William COOPER

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Content

- Interview with Prof Paul COOPER

Interview

- President Award for Outstanding Performance in Research 2012/13

- The Talent Development Scholarship 2012/13, HKSAR Government - Postgraduate Students Publication

Award Recipients

Awards Scheme and the Awardees

- Postgraduate Summer School and Research Confernece 2013

Featured

- Research Supervision Training Workshop 2012/13

- Summer Study Tour for RPg Students

- Postgraduate Students Spring Gathering 2013

- Qualifying Presentation of RPg Students

- EdD Presentation of Thesis Proposal

RPg & EdD Update

- 18th China International Education Exhibition Tour (CIEET 2013)

- Oh! Study Education Expo Spring 2013 - Information Seminars in Zhuhai College of Jilin University

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- Collaborations with Universities in Japan

- Summer School hosted by the University

of Limerick in Ireland - Collabo- Collaboration with Zhejiang

Normal University

- First Assembly of the Master of Education Programme

(Shanghai Cohort)

- EdD Student, CHING Mei Ying Maggie MEd Student, YE Zhaohui

- GS Staff, JI Mingxia Rina & PhD Student, KUANG Xiaoxue

Sharing - Information Day - Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme

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P.7-8

Events

P.9-10

P.11-12

Outreaching

Update

P.13-14 P.15

Interview

Prof. Paul COOPER

It is our honor to interview Professor Paul William COOPER, Chair Professor of Social-Emoonal Development and Educaon, and Associate Vice-President (Quality Assurance).

Academic careers with “responsive” and student-centered values A key theme of Professor COOPER’s educaonal philosophy is an emphasis on “responsiveness to students’ needs” as an educator and researcher. For instance, he stated “I was always interested in how young children and adolescents perperceive schooling…The concerns that they have about schools are very instrucve,…we can oen learn more about how to improve schools by looking at the schools through eyes of the children.” These values or philosophies have strongly influenced his teaching, research and community services since late 1970s when he started his career in educaon as a school teacher in a mainstream secondary school in the United Kingdom.

Professor COOPER’s second job was as a teacher in a residenal school for children with emoonal and behavioural difficules and simultaneously he did his Ph.D. studies. He has a parcular interest in the ways in which ffeelings of emoonal insecurity affect social and educaonal engagement.In order to deeply understand the causes of the students’ emoonal problems, Professor COOPER always sat down and calmly talked to the students. With this method, he oen found a posive side of these students, as he stated, “…they are oen quite reasonable people, with very real concerns and fears.” Consequently, Professor COOPER susuggests, in his academic output, that the most effecve teachers in schools are less interested in telling students what to do and more interested in learning from their students. This involves discovering their talents, helping them to think about the world they live in and be acve in making a posive contribuon to their communies. PProfessor Cooper admits that it is not easy being this kind of teacher. “Balance is very important: honesty and challenge are no use without support and empathy, and support and empathy are no use without honesty and challenge. Real teaching and learning are difficult and challenging acvies. They are much harder work than simply passively aending non-interacve lectures! They are also much more rrewarding.”

Aer ge ng his Ph. D. degree, Prof. COOPER took a job in Oxford University as a research fellow. He was parcularly impressed by what an interviewee, a twelve or thirteen-year old girl said about her emoonal response to schooling and how it affected her educaonal engagement:“ She said: ‘Well, I used to do that (pu ng up hands in classes) but the teacher either ignored me or would ridicule my answer, so I don’t parcipate in that way anymore.’ ” Professor COOPER found that learning and teaching were always at their most effecve when there was a strong sense of emoonal safety and students felt that they were in a supporve environment. The more supporve the eenvironment the more willing students were to take on learning challenges and stretch themselves socially, emoon-ally and intellectually.

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Suggesons to teachers and policy makers on inclusive educaon in Hong KongAs an expert of special and inclusive educaon, Professor COOPER pointed out the current problems in Hong Kong schools with corresponding suggesons. For instance, the teachers are stressed by contradicng situsituaons as they are required to produce high achievements but to include students whose special educaonal needs may limit their achievements. This big contradicon usually causes a very “depressing situaon that makes teachers somemes feel they are not succeeding.” In terms of this situaon, he suggested teachers to seek support from their colleaguesand the edueducaon bureau. Professor COOPER also provided suggesons to the policy makers. As he suggested, “make sure that proper good support and advice is available which are in various forms, for instance, release resources to provide specialist support for inclusive educaon. There is, for example, a wealth knowledge and skills in the special school sector in Hong Kong that should be drawn on to support inclusion.”

Furthermore, Professor COOPER is taking up significant roles in the field. He is not only a supervisor of Ph.D students in HKIEd but also a Vising Professor teaching and researching in the European Centre for EEducaonal Resilience of University of Malta. He is also the founding co-chair of the European Network for Social-Emoonal Competence in Children (ENSEC), and a UK Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the Brish Psychological Society. In 2011 he was honoured by being made Life Long Vice President of the Social Emoonal and Behavioural Difficules Associaon, which is a long established and leading UK charity concerned with children’s social emoonal ddevelopment and mental health needs.

Prolific and significant academic achievementsIn addion to the hands-on caring for students in his teaching, research and community services, Professor COOPER is also competent in these dimensions. He has completed numerous research projects funded by both governments and other instuons as well as publishing in academic journals constantly. He is currently an editor of world-class academic journals such as “Emoonal and Behavioural Difficules” and “Internaonal Journal of Emoonal Educaon”.

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University vision-oriented administrave jobs of Quality AssuranceApart from being a caring and competent educator and researcher, Professor COOPER is also the current Associate Vice President in Quality Assurance in HKIEd. According to him, a raonale of an educaonal instuon’s quality assuassurance was stated in a responsive and student-centered way “making sure that we are doing the best we can for the students in order to make sure that they are ge ng a quality experience” and hence, “it’s parcular referring to the teaching and learning dimension.” From his point of view, the significance of high quality of teaching and learning is to ensure the instuon’s constant improvement and sustainability. MoMore specifically, the quality assurance is performed according to the university vision: educaon-plus. On one hand, the non-educaonal courses are introduced which have shown a posive feature that the instute is developing; on the other hand, it is emphasized by Professor COOPER that the importance of educaon as a disciplinary domain itself should not be neglected in addion to embedding educaon in relaon to other disciplines, which are also very imporimportant so they have an equal value for contribung to students’ development. “[ QA] is never finished, you have to be constantly finding ways of improving; that’s what real quality assurance is about, it’s connuous self-evaluaon and improvement”, stated by Professor COOPER.

Postgraduate Students Publication Awards Scheme and the Awardees

The Postgraduate Students Publicaon Awards Scheme is designed to encourage postgraduate students to produce quality research outputs in the form of journal arcles.

In the year 2012-13, three doctorate students have been awarded for five awards:・ Mr. CHOW Kui Foon・ Dr. SAM Ka Lam・・ Ms. XIE Qun

We congratulate these students for receiving the awards with their endeavors in research and journal publicaon.

You are most welcome to apply for the scheme!For detailed guidelines of the scheme and applicaon procedure, please refer to the Graduate School’s website. We look forward to your parcipaon.

This year, Professor LO Sing Kai, Dean of Graduate School and Associate Vice President (Graduate Studies), has been awarded the President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Research 2012/13. The award is established in order to recognize and honour any academic staff members with outstanding research performance and research work that generates significant influence to the community.

PhD Student Mr. CHENG Lee receiving the Talent Development Scholarship 2012/13 from the HKSAR Government

Our Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) student Mr. CHENG Lee has been awarded The HKSARG Talent Development Scholarship (TDS) 2012/13, which is a governmental scholarship launched by the Educaon Bureau for the sake of encouraging students to develop their talents in non-academic areas, including culture and arts, science and technology, sports and music.

MMr. CHENG has been acvely engaged in various local and internaonal events and compe ons in the field of music. His work includes composions, musical performance and presentaons in research conferences. For instance, his original composions were premiered in The 2011 New Generaon Composion Compe on and The Composers Guild Ensemble organized by the Hong Kong Composers’ Guild. At the internaonal level, he served as a performer in the Expo 2010 in Shanghai, China and gave a presentaon on his paper in the 30th ISME World Conference on Music Educaon in Greece.

Award Recipients

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Congratulations to Professor LO, Sing Kai for receiving the President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Research 2012/13

The Postgraduate Summer School and Research Conference 2013 (Summer School) was jointly organized by the Graduate School of the Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIEd), South China Normal University (SCNU), Zhejiang Normal University (ZJNU) and Hiroshima University (HU) on 5-6 July 2013.

An opening ceAn opening ceremony was held in the morning on 5 July 2013 and it is our pleasure that Professor MOK Ka Ho, Joshua, Acting Vice President (Research and Development) of HKIEd, delivered an opening speech in the ceremony.

Jointly Organised by

The theme of this year Summer School is to enhance postgraduate students’ research academic writing skills. Four keynote speeches held by distinguished scholars were organized focusing on the processes and strategies of academic writing and publishing.

Professor Tom In Hoi LEE

Jeju National University, Korea

Professor Dana L. ZE

IDLER

University of South F

lorida, USA

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Dr. Tzu-bin LINNational Taiwan Normal University, TaiwanDr. Kenneth Kin Loong POON

National Institute of Education,

Singapore

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On 6 July 2013, Professor LO Sing Kai, Dean of Graduate School of HKIEd, hosted a forum “Postgraduate Education: Difference betbetween Hong Kong and Singapore / the United Kingdom” and invited two special speakers Mr LI Chunxiao, PhD student of NIE, Singapore, and Ms LIU Xiaojing, EdD student of HKIEd, to share their feelings and experienceS in studying postgraduate programmes in Hong Kong and Singapore / UK.

In the afternoon, there were series of research conferences on three disciplines, namely Humanities, Language and Linguistics, EducEducation and Social Science. 120 postgraduate students from different universities and different disciplines presented their research in themed panels. During the conferences, students presented their research ideas, exchanged their thoughts and opinions and received constconstructive feedbacks and valuable comments from distinguished scholars and other students.

To enhance students’ involvement in the Research Conference and provide more learning opportunities for them, they were invited to co-chair the themed panels with local / overseas scholars and a lot of students showed interest in it as they treasured very much this iinvaluable chance to assume an active role in the conference.

In addition, research students from different countries including Japan, Korea, Nigeria, Sweden,United Kingdom and United States also shared their study experiences.

Keynote speakers and distinguished guests

Certificate presentations at the end of the conferences

Sharing of learning experiences

Students with full concentration

EventsPostgraduate Students Spring Gathering 2013 To celebrate Chinese New Year, the Graduate School kicked off the Year of the Snake with a Spring Gathering. Held on 23 February 2013 (Sat), the Gathering was a joyful event and festive occasion for postgraduate students and academic staff meeting with one another.

Over 70 postgraduate students from different programmes joined with Professor LO Sing Kai, Dean of Graduate School, Professor Penny ENSLIN, from University of Glasgow and staff of the Graduate School in this event. In her opening speech, Professor ENSLIN shared her views on academicacademic research by using the story of “Life of Pi”. Following by a Cutting of Roasted Pig ceremony, the lunch gathering provided students with an opportunity to mingle with each other as well as our guest, Professor ENSLIN.

The event followed by the “Meeting with the Dean” session. Students were keen on this session as they could share their opinions and suggestions directly with Professor LO on the development of the postgraduate studies. All of us shared a great and fruitful day at the beginning of the Snake Year.

Research Supervision Training Workshop 2012/13A Research Supervision Training Workshop entitled “Maximizing Research Performance for both Supervisors and Research Students” was held on 10 January 2013. We are delighted to have Dr Tony ZHANG, Head of Division of RMIT University in Melbourne, to share with us on how to develop an effective supervisory relationship. Dr ZHANG introduced practical strategies to supervise research studentsstudents throughout their studies and to maximize student performance during their candidature. He also emphasized the management of candidature, including setting realistic targets and milestones by both supervisors and students. Both academic staff and students found the workshop inspiring and beneficial to their research progress.

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Summer Study Tour for Research Postgraduate Students

A Summer Study Tour to United States was organized for Research Postgraduate (RPg) students in July 2013. This tour aims to expand and deepen students‛ research skill. During the tour, the group visited the University of California, Riverside, and San Diego State University and engaged in scholarly exchange activities and research experience sharing sessions with academic staff and researchers. The tour sessions with academic staff and researchers. The tour provides a good opportunity for students to network with overseas researchers and scholars.

First Assembly of the Master of Education Programme (Shanghai Cohort)

The First Assembly of MEd Shanghai Cohort was held on 5 July 2013. The Vice President(Academic), Prof. John LEE, was invited to deliver the opening speech to welcome our 60 students from Shanghai for their study in HKIEd. We have also invited Dr SHEN Yueping, the Project Development Director of Shanghai Pacican Cultural and Educational Service Co., Ltd, to deliver a speech to encourage the students and wish them all the best in their study.

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Mr ZHENG Yuan

Ms DING Feng

Ms XIONG Xibei

Mr AN Min

Ms CHING Ngai Ying,Fiona

Ms LI HuiMs LI Hui

Ms XU Suqiong

Mr HUI Kin Yip

Transion from mainland Chinese school to English-medium Hong Kong university --- a qualitave study of learners’ autonomy development

Developing Pre-Service Teachers’ ICT in Educaon Competencies in a Mainland Chinese Teacher EEducaon Instuon: The Role of Curriculum Leadership

Understand the Underlying of College Students’ Health Movaon

Neuroscience in educaon: Student teachers’ literacy, percepons and teaching behavior

The Relaonship between Regime “Type” andCivic Civic Educaon: The Cases of Three Chinese Sociees

Understanding curriculum adaptaon for children with SEN in inclusive educaon of China

“Selecon of Tang Poetry” (Tangshi Xuan 唐詩選) and its various versions 李攀龍《唐詩選》及其派生本研究

The Effecveness of Pedagogy on Creavity inPiano Performance: A Chinese Perspecve

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RPg & EdD Update

Qualifying Presentaon of RPg students

In semester 2, 2012-13, eight RPg students conducted their qualifying presentaons. Upon compleon of their presentaons and confirmaon of candidatures, they are taking a further step to success. We are glad to witness this milestone of their research journey. In order to assist students to concentrate on their rresearch project, financial support for their conferences and research are available for them to apply. The next round of RPg Qualifying Presentaon is coming soon. Keep updated with us!

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Pragmac Norms of Request Making of Spoken Business English in Hong Kong

An Evaluave Study of Addive Trillingual Eduacon Models in Inner Mongolia

Autonomous Region Case study of Schoolgardening in a Hong Kong kindergarten and its possible impact on healtits possible impact on healthy eang

The impact of language teacher interpersonal behaviours on the movaon and performance of young language learners in the terary educaon context

Civility and its Cultural and Social Contexts: The case of the Colleges of Educaon in Nigeria

TTo invesgate the extent of using mobile devices to facilitate formal and informal learning foruniversity students studying at Guangzhou

Construcng A New Measure of H-P-S Creavity: A Four-Building Block Approach

Teaching Hypothesis in English as a Second Language Acquision

An IAn Invesgaon of the A tudes of Local Hong Kong Non-Nave English Teachers (NNETs) towards Spoken English as a Lingua Franca (ELF)

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EdD Presentaon of Thesis Proposal

Nine EdD students submied their thesis proposals and presented to the Presentaon Panel from Dec 2012 to April 2013. It is delighted to see that they have already taken a great step in their research. SStarng from next semester, students who have completed all 8 taught courses will be automacally registered into the course EDD8004 Presentaon of Thesis Proposal and they are expected to present their thesis proposals at the end of the course. We welcome all of you to join and support the students in the next round of presentaon!

Mr CHIANG Tin Pui Benny

Ms YI Ya Yuan

Ms CHUNG Lai Ping

Mr FOUNG Kin Wai Dennis

Mr NDAZHAGA Joshua Jere

Mr Mr WONG Chun Hung

Mr LEUNG Hoi Yung

Ms CHAN Mui Yuen

Mr LEUNG King Wai

Outreaching

18th China International Education Exhibition Tour (CIEET 2013)

The Graduate School joined the China International Education Exhibition Tour (CIEET) 2013 in Beijing and Guangzhou on 9-10 March 2013 and 23-24 March 2013 respectively to provide information on postgraduate programme to students who are planning to study in Hong Kong. The event offered a good opportunity in promoting our postgraduate programmes to the mass coming from different cities of China.

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Oh! Study Education Expo Spring 2013In the same month, the Graduate School also actively participated in the Oh! Study Education Expo Spring 2013, a four-day integrated event held in Taiwan's three major cities:

-Taipei: 16-17 March 2013-Taichung: 18 March 2013-Kaohsiung: 19 March 2013

PPositive responses were received throughout the event especially in the Expo held in Taipei.

Information Seminars in Zhuhai College of Jilin University

The Graduate School was invited to introduce our postgraduate programmes

to students and teachers in Zhuhai College of Jilin University (吉林大学珠海学院) on April 11th, 2013. The Graduate School conduct information seminars and answer the attendees’ questions during the visit. 30 teachers attend

the information session of Doctor of Education and around 60 students

aattend the information session of Master of Education. Information leaflets

of other masters programmes were distributed after the talks. Both

teachers and students showed their enthusiasm to get more information

about how to apply postgraduate programmes of HKIEd.

Information Seminars in Zhuhai College of Jilin University

The Graduate School was invited to introduce our postgraduate programmes

to students and teachers in Zhuhai College of Jilin University (吉林大学珠海学院) on April 11th, 2013. The Graduate School conduct information seminars and answer the attendees’ questions during the visit. 30 teachers attend

the information session of Doctor of Education and around 60 students

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Information Seminars in Zhuhai College of Jilin University

The Graduate School was invited to introduce our postgraduate programmes

to students and teachers in Zhuhai College of Jilin University (吉林大学珠海学院) on April 11th, 2013. The Graduate School conduct information seminars and answer the attendees’ questions during the visit. 30 teachers attend

the information session of Doctor of Education and around 60 students

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Collaborations with Universities in Japan

In addition to Mainland China and Taiwan, the Dean and Associate Dean of the Graduate School visited three universities in Japan including Kobe University, Hiroshima University and Osaka Kyoiku University in mid May. During their time in Japan, they met the Deans and senior management of the Graduate School in the universities.

Meeting with the

Head of Graduate School of MICParticipation in the IRMSS 2013

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Summer School hosted by University of Limerick in Ireland

For further development of the Summer School to international extent, the Graduate School visited Mary Immaculate College (MIC) of University of Limerick in Ireland in mid-June. The Head of Graduate School of MIC participating in the International Research Method Summer School (IRMSS) of MIC and attended the presentations of students from Ireland.

Collaboration with Zhejiang Normal UniversityThe Graduate School visited Zhejiang Normal University (ZJNU) on April 15th, 2013. During the meeting with the principal of ZJNU, Prof. LO Sing Kai and Prof. WU Feng-ming (The principal of ZJNU) agreed that as both focused on education, the two institutions could collaborate on several areas such as educational research, teacher ddevelopment and pre-service teacher training, etc. Our Dean and Associate Dean also met the senior management of the Graduate School of ZJNU to explore the collaboration opportunities on postgraduate programme with ZJNU.

Meeting in Kobe

University Meeting with Graduate School of

Education, Hiroshima University

Meeting in Osaka Kyoiku University

Sharing

EdD Student CHING Mei Ying Maggie

Like many of my fellow Hong Kong citizens, I‛ve studied and worked in the commercial sector for over 10 years, without any real knowledge or experience of the Education sector, so I really don‛t know why I suddenly decided to spend my future life in this unrelated area.

In September of 2009, I attended the first lecture of HKIED‛s Master of Education programme, 90% of my classmates were teachers from Kindergartens, Primary Schools and Secondary Schools. All of the theory, technique and vocabulary were very strange to me initially. Thank God, Professor LO, Sing Kai was my first Lecturer, he‛s a wonderful teacher and he‛s given me valuable support, opinions and suggestions every time I‛ve faced a challenging problem. He totally changed my original concept of suggestions every time I‛ve faced a challenging problem. He totally changed my original concept of Education, teachers and research. According to the “Thank you card” I gave him after my graduation to Master of Education, “The Best Gift” for him was a photo of both of us at “my graduation to Doctor of Education”.

Now I‛m the first year‛s student of Doctor of Education, once again, God arranged another wonderful teacher for me, my principle supervisor - Professor LIM, Cher Ping, who is teaching and leading me in the right direction.

Of course besides Prof. LO and Prof. LIM, other Lecturers, my classmates, my family, my boss and Of course besides Prof. LO and Prof. LIM, other Lecturers, my classmates, my family, my boss and colleagues from Hong Kong, the UK and China, all give me the very important support during this long journey towards becoming a qualified researcher or scholar.

Now that the first year is almost completed, it‛s time for me to put all of my effort into my thesis and the final target point seems to get closer and closer, but “The Best Gift” will be achieved very soon. I would therefore like to express all of my thanks to all of the important people who‛ve helped me on my long journey.

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MEd Student YE Zhaohui 叶朝晖

大家好！我作為上海教育管理在職碩士班的1名學員，有幸於2012年到香港教育學院參與了教育碩士的學習。我們一個班級37名學員，分別來自上海徐匯、虹口、金山和靜安四個區縣，在香港度過了一段非常愉悅的學習和生活時光。

回想這短短不到1年的學習生活，很艱苦卻收穫頗大。我是一個新上崗的特殊教育學校校長，對校長這個崗位是新手，學習的內容對我而言如飢似渴，而我從事教育工作已經20年，也算有一定基層學校教育和管理的經驗，無論是教師發展、績效管理還是教育改革方面的話題，對我而言都有對應的理解，我覺得這樣的學習效果很好，能將理論和運用結合起來。同時經過艱苦的作業環節，對研究方法又有了深一步的認識。

而我感觸最深的，莫過於在課程學習之外的那些，比如每位教授嚴謹治學的精神，對學員們的平易和厚愛，對作業的嚴格要求和認真指導，卻又通過不失幽默風趣的表達方式。學校的住宿管理、餐廳提供的一日三餐，都給我們留下了美好的回憶，讓我們重新體驗學生學習生活的有序而自在，緊張而快樂。學員同伴們的友誼也很美好，一張張笑臉時常浮現在眼前。

我要藉此表達對盧成皆、蘇詠梅、姚偉梅、陳健生、莫家豪、潘蘇燕、顏明仁、吳我要藉此表達對盧成皆、蘇詠梅、姚偉梅、陳健生、莫家豪、潘蘇燕、顏明仁、吳迅榮、陸佳芳、錢海燕、萬穎恩、 羅劍輝等諸位導師們的崇敬和愛戴，感謝各位導師帶給我們的啟發，希望再有機會聆聽你們的講課。

同時也感謝香港教育學院研究生院的李慧儀女士、高美儀女士等，雖然你們自己也有緊張的工作，卻默默地為我們做好教室、住宿、交通等各方面的安排，讓我們盡情享受學習而不用操心這麼多瑣碎的事務。

有感於香港教育學院良好的學術氛圍，能成為她的學生實在很自豪！希望多多有機會回到學府參加專題的學習或研討！

PhD Student

KUANG Xiaoxue

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It is my great honor to work for Graduate School for five months right after getting my PhD degree from HKU. As a new graduated doctor, I feel close to our postgraduate students here in HKIEd. The study journey they are undergoing is the right one I have just gone through.

During the past five months, when students passed their qualifying presentations,presentations, when students wrote up and submitted their theses, and when students passed their oral examinations, I also felt very cheerful for them. Before those exciting moments, I know, they must have been worked very hard and overcome various difficulties.

To cultivate a good research environment for supporting postgraduate students,students, Graduate School has recently organized the 3rd Postgraduate Summer School and Research Conference. It is very encouraging to see our students actively attended the seminars, presented their research and exchanged their ideas with other scholars and students. We will try to provide more platforms for postgraduate students to develop their research skills.

Like the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly, the academic journeyjourney is accompanied with thorns and difficulties, but more attractively, it is also full of courage and hope. With their persistent efforts on critical thinking, reading, writing and practicing, I believe our students will become distinguished teachers and scholars in the near future.

Maybe many years later, the PhD experience in HKIEd will be the most memorial time of my life.

There is no doubt I love this campus. The school is beautiful which is surrounded with trees and flowers and the teaching facilities and equipments are sufficient. Among all of them, the library and swimming-pool are my favorite.

What impressed me most is the high quality of the staff here. Once I lost my bag includingincluding wallet, ID, money and bank cards carelessly, I could not find it anywhere and finally I registered in the security centre without hope. While two days later, I received a call to get my things back. Some staff found my bag and returned to the security centre. Nothing lost even one penny. The campus gives me a feeling of security.

I have to say the PhD Study is not easy. Sometimes you will feel lonely during the research as you do not know whether what you have done is right or wrong. SometimesSometimes you work so hard only to be told useless. The “pains and gains” seems not work here. Luckily, I met some good PhD friends who can share with me the joys and sorrows.

WheneverWhenever we feel frustrated, upset and lost in the study, we always encourage each other. The usual question we will ask each other is “which decision you will make if you have the chance to choose again?” We all know we will make the same choice. Life without them will be boring. The supervisors are also very supportive. They are like our parents. For instance, once I submitted a paper for a conference but I do not want to take part in for some reasons, I wrote to my supervisor Prof. KENNEDY to express my feelings. I thought such question would be ignored since he had so manymany things to deal with. Instead, he responded immediately, and he did not scold me but kindly taught me the importance of exchanging academic ideas with scholars. What more can you ask for when you have the friends and teachers who cares about you? I would like to express my gratitude to all my teachers and friends in the Institute.

Staff of Graduate School JI Mingxia Rina

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The Hong Kong Institute of Education - Graduate School Newsletter Issue 7 (August 2013)

Information Day for Postgraduate Programmes

The Information Day for Postgraduate Programmes was held on 18th and 19th January 2013. The event, jointly organized by the Faculty of Education and Human Development (FEHD), Faculty of HumanitiesHumanities (FHM), Faculty of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (FLASS) and Graduate School (GS), provided participants with useful information on the various postgraduate programmes offered by the Institute. Programme seminars on the postgraduate programmes on offer were held and staff from each faculty and unit were there to answer enquiries.

For 2014 entry, information will be available at the Graduate School website soon.

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