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Josephine Lau; Katja Vähäsantanen; Kaija Collin – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2024
Teachers are frontline actors in actualising educational innovations. In some contexts, teachers' professional agency is undervalued. This study investigated teachers' agency and its related workplace affordances in Hong Kong, which features a centralised-decentralisation education governance system, and a hierarchical work culture. The study was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Autonomy, Cultural Context, Vertical Organization
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Martyn, Howard Lorne – International Education Studies, 2019
This paper examines Indonesian migrant domestic workers' contentment with their sojourn in Hong Kong and factors that inhibit contentment. These factors largely consist of inadequate pre-departure training in Indonesia or training that emphasizes subservience rather than assertiveness, as well as oppressive work environments, underpayment and…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Training, Migrant Workers, Housework, Power Structure