Thursday, April 30, 2009

Pop Culture Seminars@HKIEd


May 6, 2009 Wednesday
1. Alice Chik and Randal Homle: Pre-sevice language teachers in film directors' chairs.
2. Phil Benson: Sexy, Naughty, Bitchy: The public pedagogy of Asian female singers' English music videos.

May 20, 2009 Wednesday
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 21st Century.

June 10, 2009 Wednesday
1. Josephine Do: Chinese arts: Popular culture.
2. Purrie Ng: A study on constructive students' learning experience through visual images of Project Yi-Jin students' artwork.

A series of lunchtime seminars showcasing research at HKIEd. Each seminar will include 2x30minutes presentations, plus 30 minutes informal discussion. From May 6 to June 10, we will have 6 presentations on popular culture and education, each with particular focus on movie, music, literacy, Chinese food and arts. If you are interested, feel free to contact us at hkpop@ied.edu.hk at Hong Kong Institute of Education.

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