Seminar series

Seminar Four: June 10, 2009 1. Purrie Ng A study on constructive students learning experience through visual image of Project Yi-Jin students artwork. 2. Josephine Do Chinese arts: Popular culture
Click the picture to enlarge		In the first presentation, Purrie has shared many artworks developed by the Project Yi-Jin students to display their life experience. Students were asked to select pictures to represent themselves, and many of them chose a popular image. In Josephine's speech, she has demonstrated the development of political art movement in China and Hong Kong. Her students also have developed some interest in creating artwork by using political art images. Through these two presentations, popular culture in arts have been linked to arts students' school works.
Seminar Three: May 20, 2009 1. Aaron Koh Popular Culture goes to school in Hong Kong: Troubling the articulation of the New Senior Secondary Curriculum,Learning English through Popular Culture 2. Christine Chan The Origins of Chinese Food and its transition in the 12st Century
Click the picture to enlarge		In the first presentataion, Aaron Koh will critically examine and unpack the articulation of the pedagogical what and how of the new Language Arts Elective called “Learning English Through Popular Culture” to be offered to the Senior Form. He will also suggest some ways forward that might deliver what is otherwise a promising and innovative curriculum. The second presentation will introduce a contemporary anthroplogical issue for medicine on popular Chinese food culture in the 21st century in Hong Kong.
Seminar Two: May 6, 2009 1. Alice Chik and Randal Holme Pre-service language teachers in film directors' chair Professor 2. Phil Benson Sexy, Naughty, Bitchy: The public pedagogy of Asian female singers' English music videos
Click the picture to enlarge		The first presentation tracks a film-making project conducted by a group of student teachers in a local secondary school. It will look at the student teachers’ attempts to master film and script writing techniques in English whilst trying to impart them to a less than enthusiastic group of secondary school students. And the second one argues that by destabilizing familiar triangulations of language, ethnicity and gender, these singers and their MVs are playing an important role in ‘public pedagogies’ of local, regional and international identity in Asia.
Seminar Series: May to June With the 3 groups of seminars, 6 presentations will be given on Popular Culture and Education in Hong Kong.
Click the picture to enlarge		Series seminars program A series of lunchtime seminars showcasing research at Hong Kong Institute of Education. Each seminar will include 2x30 minutes presentations, plus 30 minutes informal discussion. 6 presentations will be given on movie, music, literacy, food, and arts. If you are interested in any of these topics that we are going to discuss in the coming weeks, please feel free to contact us at hkpop@ied.edu.hk.
Seminar One: March 18, 2009 Professor Nicola Yelland Critical Issues for learning in the 21st century: Multiliteracies, new technologies and knowledge building.
click the picture to enlarge		In this talk, Nicola explored the lifeworlds of Millennial learners. She also suggested that they live multimodal lives that are very different to the lives that they experience in school. She introduced ways in which this impacts on our conceptualisation of literacy and share some of her work with teachers who have broadened their undertandings about literacies for the 21st century, which encourage students to become active participants in the knowledge era.