Keeping the Policy Window Closed: Framing Putonghua as a Medium of Instruction in Hong Kong
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- 作者：Qing Shao
- 关键词：Medium of instruction ; Hong Kong ; Putonghua ; Multiple streams approach ; Education policy ; Language policy
- 刊名：The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：December 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：25
- 期：5-6
- 页码：771-779
- 全文大小：461 KB
- 刊物主题：Education (general); Learning & Instruction; Sociology of Education; Educational Policy and Politics; International and Comparative Education;
- 出版者：Springer Singapore
- ISSN：2243-7908
- 卷排序：25
文摘
This paper examines 138 news articles published in Hong Kong print media on Putonghua as a medium of instruction (PMI) for teaching Chinese during a one-year period. Informed by theories of framing and the multiple streams approach (MSA), the study investigated the local Chinese print media’s participation in the PMI policy process. Detailed content analysis revealed how the press discursively impeded policy outputs with regard to PMI in Hong Kong. The results remind policy entrepreneurs of the importance of framing and counter-framing. More studies from the policy process perspective are needed to explore the ways in which stakeholders, policy entrepreneurs and policy makers engage with the mass media in the educational language policy debate.