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Education Seminar Series (10) by the Faculty of Education, HKU “Parents and Schools Partnership for Children”

17 Mar 2014

The Faculty of Education, in support of the University’s drive to strengthen knowledge exchange, one of the three strategic themes of the University’s Strategic Development, takes the initiative in knowledge sharing with the public by organizing a series of education seminars for parents.  The past seminars on Mathematics, English, Liberal Studies, Information Technology, sending children abroad, the ways in using voice to teach children, creative, healthy voice of children and private tutoring held since 2010 received enthusiastic response.

Our Faculty is going to organize the 10th seminar on “Parents and Schools Partnership for Children” in March 2014.  The focus will be on the possibility of collaboration between parents and schools as well as parent education.

In the seminar, the following issues will be discussed:
• How parents to collaborate with schools in nurturing kids?
• How parents to achieve lifelong learning and grow up with kids?
• How schools to support parents in tackling kids’ problems?
• How schools in Singapore and Hong Kong implement parent education for the betterment of being parents?

Dr Pang Ming Fai, Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Faculty of Education of HKU, is the main proponent of the “Parents as Learners” paradigm, a new pedagogical perspective to parent education.  Mr Edmund Lim, School Principal of Huamin Primary School in Singapore, will talk about the experiences of Singaporean school in parent education.  Mr Eric Chan, School Manager of Tak Sun Secondary School, and his wife Christina are parent education leaders.  Mrs Gloria Chan Leung Suk Ching, School Principal, and Mrs Tanny Yiu Lai Tan Man, Assistant Principal of Kau Yan School and Kindergarten, are champions of in-school parent education for more than 10 years.  Dr Luis Go is a researcher on “Parental Learning” of Faculty of Education of HKU.

Media representatives are cordially invited to the seminar, the details are as follows:

Date:  March 22, 2014, Saturday
Time:  10:00am – 12:00noon
Venue:   CPD LG.18 and CPD 2.42, Central Podium Levels, Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong
Language:  Cantonese and English

For media enquiries, please contact Ms Queenie Wong, Senior Manager (Development and Communications) (Tel.: 2219 4270 / Fax: 2540 6360 / E-mail: qlpwong@hku.hk).