Liz Jackson

University of Hong Kong · Faculty of Education

In China, gratitude has often been promoted through political discourse,particularly to the Chinese Communist Party and its leaders. Traditionally,this discourse has focused on Chinese citizens’ gratitude. But this haschanged recently. This article applies summative content analysis toexamine discourses of gratitude promoted by the Party during the...

The Congregation of Holy Cross (CHC), the most significant Catholic religious order in Bangladesh, has been working in the region since 1853 in evangelization and education. The Holy Cross educational mission is a vital component of evangelization. One of the significant contributions of Holy Cross education is the development of local churches, lo...

This chapter examines and discusses the educational aims of Notre Dame College (NDC) in Dhaka. It explores how NDC negotiated historical changes—internal and external—and how those changes shaped its mission. The chapter argues that NDC had a distinctive aim as part of its elite education. It originally aimed at developing and empowering the minori...

This chapter analyzes the educational aims of Holy Cross College (HCC). Similar to the last chapter, it explores how HCC grappled with changes taking place in the Catholic Church and in Bangladesh and how those changes in turn shaped its mission. HCC has aimed at developing and empowering Catholic women by providing college education, offering aspi...

This chapter presents a historical and educational background to the Congregation of Holy Cross (CHC) in Bangladesh. It briefly describes the history of education in Bangladesh (then East Bengal) from the colonial period, including CHC and other western-based colonial and missionary education. It then presents the founding background and history of...

Citizenship education is often assigned a role in nation building as it attempts in part to bridge social divisions within society and foster a more unified national identity. As an element of citizenship education, teaching about ethnic minorities is an imperative to achieve this aim. This article examines how ethnic minorities in China are repres...

Schools and other forms of education and have significant impacts on people’s views about emotions and emotional experiences. This book helps students and educators to better understand emotions and their significance in social life and in education. It shows how we often take it for granted that certain emotions, such as happiness, are ‘positive’,...

This case study explored how the principles of multicultural and intercultural education are reflected in a minority-majority Hong Kong secondary school (that is, a school where most students are ethnic minorities). The findings suggest that the school illustrates several aspects of multicultural and intercultural education, especially content inte...

This chapter is a summary of philosophy, theory, and practice arising from collective writing experiments conducted between 2016 and 2022 in the community associated with the Editors’ Collective and more than 20 scholarly journals. The main body of the chapter summarises the community’s insights into the many faces of collective writing. Appendix 1...

Collaborative inquiry into the nature of values in university education can lead to their clarification and strengthening. However, in real-world workplaces, the common feeling of busyness can alienate academics from one another. In individualistic, performance-oriented higher education environments, “values talk” related to educational activities...

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Schools and Religion provides the first truly global scan of contemporary issues and debates around the world regarding the relationship(s) between state schools and religion. Organized around specific contested issues — from whether or not religious literacy should be among the goals of school education, to appropriate a...

Patriotism is controversial in moral education across contexts. In China, patriotism is highly politicised by the government and heavily promoted in education. In the last few decades, the moralisation of patriotism, which refers here to the framing of patriotism as a virtue, has become the focus of teaching patriotism in China. This paper demonstr...

This paper uses a critical multicultural, constructivist approach to examine how the Chinese government represents minority cultures in its official discourse. Although at an abstract level the government acknowledges the contributions of minority cultures to society, our findings show a mismatched picture in terms of minority representation. Gover...

Humility as a concept has recently received increasing scholarly attention in international scholarship. It has also been regarded as important for education traditionally in Chinese culture. However, no empirical research so far has examined Chinese people’s conceptualisations of humility in education and its cultivation in schools. Based on semi-...

Taking credit for digitalization and platformization, China has initiated its open science infrastructure implementation and made an effort to focus on open access (OA) journals and data sharing over the past two decades. With the continuous development need, issues and concerns have caught in attention, including data accessibility, research trans...

Humility is regarded as beneficial for individuals, relationships, and society. It is believed to increase well-being and tolerance of difference and enhance interpersonal relationships. Educating for humility could be regarded as an important element and goal of education as it helps students realise their limitations and consider different (even...

"This collection, titled ‘Teaching in the Age of Covid-19—The New Normal’, is a collection of short testimonies and workspace photographs submitted in the first half of 2022. In numbers, the collection consists of 67 textual testimonies and 65 workspace photographs submitted by 69 authors from 19 countries: USA (13), New Zealand (8), India (7), Swe...

This paper is a complete student-led, student-edited collective writing project (CWP) conducted virtually in Spring 2022 throughout the course Knowledge Socialism taught by professor Michael Peters for the Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal university. The CWP involves 4 international, 5 domestic Ph.D. students, and 2 senior Western scholars as r...

This special issue includes a series of interviews with the past women presidents of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA), including Felicity Haynes, Nesta Devine, Tina Besley, and Liz Jackson. This article sets the stage for reading the interviews, though an extended dialogue between the two authors of this project. In what fo...

This paper is a summary of philosophy, theory, and practice arising from collective writing experiments conducted between 2016 and 2022 in the community associated with the Editors’ Collective and more than 20 scholarly journals. The main body of the paper summarises the community’s insights into the many faces of collective writing. Appendix 1 pre...

This is an open-access article published in London Review ofEducation. While decolonisation is usually discussed in relation to countries that were formally colonised, countries that have not been formally colonised have also faced challenges related to colonialism. In this case, it is worth considering whether decolonial theory has more widespread...

In recent times, schools have begun to focus on issues of wellbeing, engaging with ideas from various fields such as positive psychology. It is in this context that there is a growing interest in humility, rather than this interest having emerged from debates in moral philosophy and moral education. However, to the extent that education for wellbei...

An experiment with ‘Twitterizing’ collective academic writing surrounding questions of how multilateralism might be strengthened and upheld to deal with cross-border and global risks to humanity, and the current UN be reformed to reflect a more complex and evolving world system based on a fairer and more representative distribution of power and res...

This chapter reviews research and legal perspectives on early child development and corporal punishment from a global view. The chapter begins with a description of the importance of preschool education and early childhood care, and then analyzes conflicting perspectives on the use of corporal punishment generally and with preschool-aged children....

Our study sought to examine the use of corporal punishment with young children in Tanzania. This chapter discusses the findings of the study, which were presented in detail in Chapter Four. Here, we examine more broadly in relation to past research the prevalence of corporal punishment with preschool aged children, factors influencing its use by te...

While relatively unknown outside the country, Filipino philosophy is gaining more attention among scholars, educators, and philosophy communities in the Philippines. This growing discussion generates analysis of the various facets substantiating what is ‘organic’ and distinct about Filipino philosophy. One major aspect of interest in Filipino philo...

This chapter describes the research context and historical background for understanding the use of corporal punishment in Tanzanian childcare and education. Policies and laws related to children’s rights protection in Tanzania are also discussed here, from the Constitution of Tanzania of 1977, and the National Education Act of 1978, to the Law of t...

This chapter presents the major findings of our study, about the use of and attitudes towards corporal punishment in homes and preschool settings in the Dodoma Urban District, Tanzania, based primarily on interview and questionnaire data with parents and educators. It also presents findings about factors that influence the use of corporal punishmen...

In the last decades, the propagation of Mandarin has been carried out across the People’s Republic of China as de facto language assimilation. It has achieved great success in that over 80 percent of the population can speak Mandarin, but it has also had devastating effects on minority language learning, maintenance, and use. Meanwhile, the Chinese...

This collectively written article explores postdigital relationships between science, philosophy, and religion within the continuum of enchantment, disenchantment, and re-enchantment. Contributions are broadly classified within four sections related to academic fields of philosophy, theology, critical theory, and postdigital studies. The article re...

"On 17 March 2021 we invited all authors of ‘Teaching in the Age of Covid-19’ (Jandrić et al. 2020) to reflect on their pandemic experience 1 year later.3 Mirroring the original article’s format, in ‘Teaching in the Age of Covid-19—1 Year Later’, we requested short testimonies, biographies, and workspace photographs. In numbers, the 1-year-later co...

This paper focusses on our concerns about revelations about sexual harassment in universities and the inadequate responses whereby some universities seem more concerned about their own reputations than the care and protection of their students. Seldom do cases go to criminal court, instead they mostly fall within employment relations policies where...

What is the future of Philosophy of education? Or as many of scholars and thinkers in this final ‘future-focused’ collective piece from the Philosophy of Education in a New Key Series put it, what are the futures—plural and multiple—of the intersections of ‘philosophy’ and ‘education?’ What is ‘Philosophy’; and what is ‘Education’, and what role ma...

The inspiration for this collective writing project began with a digital conference entitled ‘Knowledge Socialism, COVID-19 and the New Reality of Education’ held at Beijing Normal University. In this conference and through this article, multiple researchers spread across six continents have engaged in the collaborative task of outlining emerging i...

In Nepal, the current curricula reflect the values of strong authority and control, prioritisation of technical/rational knowledge, and a preference for modern, urban lifestyles (Carney & Rappleye, 2011; Castellsague & Carrasco, 2020). In this context, English language supremacy and western cultural biases are being imposed, while local linguistic...

This article investigates the affective structure of meritocracy in education. An analysis of meritocracy is carried out in terms of the feelings that surround academic success and failure as it is produced in educational settings. The article first offers a review of various educational perspectives on meritocracy including the Marxist critique hi...

Sinophobia (anti-Chinese sentiment) has become normalised and increasingly acceptable in Hong Kong in recent decades. Such Sinophobia intersects with aims of protecting what is local in the society, as seen in Hong Kong news media. This paper first explores the concept of Sinophobia. It then provides a background on Sinophobia in Hong Kong, explain...

This chapter focuses on the nature and importance of conceptions in human life and education. First, the chapter discusses the nature of conceptions generally and in the context of education. Then it articulates a sociocultural approach to conceptions. This approach is complemented here by complexity theory, in order to explore how cultural and env...

This chapter summarises the key points of this book and discusses the theoretical implications of the research. Next, it gives recommendations for future practice for policy makers, educational administrators, educators, and other stakeholders. Finally, it considers the limitations of this study, and possible topics for future research.