Faculty of Education Public Lecture

On 2 March, Professor Tsang Wing-kwong delivered a lecture entitled “The Institutionalization of the Hong Kong Teachers' Professional Education: the practice, narrative and tradition of the Faculty of Education, the Chinese University of Hong Kong” at Ho Tim Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

The lecture posited that The Chinese University of Hong Kong was established in 1960 and the Faculty of Education, the first professional school, was set up two years later. While the university and the faculty are celebrating their 50^th and 48^th anniversaries respectively, they should reflect on one fundamental question: “What is worth celebrating for?”

Applying the concepts of Alasdair Maclntyre, Professor Tsang reviewed the history and development of the Faculty of Education from three aspects: Hong Kong Teachers’ professional practice, identity narrative and institutional tradition of. And reflected on whether these practice, narrative and tradition could achieve the virtue of professionalism of teachers? A review and reflection on the professional practice, identity narrative and institutional tradition and more essentially the virtue of education, which the Faculty of Education should have embedded, is especially revealing within the current dominance of global ranking and competition among higher-education institutions.