Centre for Popular Culture and Education 流行文化與教育研究中心 The Centre for Popular Culture and Education (CPCE) is a focal point for research on popular culture and education in Hong Kong. Taking a broad view of popular culture and education, the Centre supports research in a variety of areas, including New Literacies, Media Education, Digital Media and Learning, Learning and Play, and Public Pedagogy. Popular Culture in English Language Education In September 2009, the Hong Kong school system launched an ambitious and exciting new English Language curriculum for the Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE). In 2012, the first cohort of the New Senior Secondary (NSS) curriculum graduated, and more than 150 of these graduates have now entered the Institute as first-year students in the new 5-year BEd (English Language) and 4-year BA (Language Studies) programmes. The NSS English curriculum is of great interest to the CPCE, because of its emphasis on Language Arts and the inclusion of an elective called “‘Learning English through Popular Culture”. The CPCE has been tracking the development of the new curriculum through several research projects since the launch of the Centre in July 2010 and this is now coming to fruition with the launch of a series of reports, under the title: Popular Culture in the Hong Kong Senior Secondary School English Curriculum. Benson, P., & Patkin, J. (2013) Popular Culture in the Hong Kong Senior Secondary School English Curriculum: Part 1. A critical review of documents and resources. Benson, P., & Patkin, J. (2013) Popular Culture in the Hong Kong Senior Secondary School English Curriculum: Part 2. Students’ engagement with popular culture and their attitudes to its use in English language teaching. Benson, P., & Patkin, J. (2013) Popular Culture in the Hong Kong Senior Secondary School English Curriculum: Part 3. Graduates’ experiences of popular culture in English language teaching. Parts 1 and 2 were published in January 2013 and Part 3 will be published shortly. Through this series of reports, the Centre aims to contribute a critical perspective on this important educational initiative, which will contribute to the development of English language teaching in schools and lead to further academic publications. In order to foster knowledge transfer to the educational community, the reports are published as high quality PDF documents that can be downloaded from the Centre’s revamped website (under ‘Publications’at http://www.ied.edu.hk/cpce/). Forthcoming Book Following the successful 2nd International Conference on Popular Culture and Education held at the Institute in December 2011, the Centre Director is co-editing a collection of papers from the conference under the title, Popular Culture, Pedagogy and Teacher Education: International Perspectives. The book is currently under contract to Routledge, UK, and is due to appear in late 2013. For more information about CPCE, please visit http://www.ied.edu.hk/cpce Department & Centre Highlights 16 Faculty of Humanities FHM Newsletter Issue1
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