Beschreibung
Autorenporträt
Chi-Ming Lam is Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Education in the Department of International Education and Lifelong Learning at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. His research interests include the philosophy of Karl Popper, critical thinking, Confucianism, and philosophy for children. He has published and presented on these areas both nationally and internationally. His most recent publication is a book entitled Childhood, Philosophy and Open Society: Implications for Education in Confucian Heritage Cultures. Jae Park is an assistant professor at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. Born and raised in Korea, he followed his family to Peru. He worked as a pediatric surgeon with deprived children's healthcare and education in civil war-torn Lima. He later earned his M.Ed. and Ed.D. specializing both in philosophy of education from the University of Hong Kong. His fields of study include minority and cultural studies, higher education, managerial theories, and sociology of technology. He published in Educational Philosophy and Theory, International Studies in Sociology of Education, Comparative Education, and Ethics & Behavior. He is the president of the Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong and as a director of the Centre for Lifelong Learning Research and Development of the Hong Kong Institute of Education. He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Comparative Education and Development.
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