Principal Lecturer

BA HKU; MA, MEd Toronto; PhD SUNY

Office Address:  Room 02, 2/F, Block D1
Tel:  (852) 2948 7807
Fax: (852) 2948 7619
Email:  gmak@ied.edu.hk

Teaching Areas
Sociology of Education

Comparative Education
Qualitative Research Methodology

Research Interests
Other Topics related to Sociology of Education
Managing Research/Evaluation/Testing Activities
Other Topics Related to Education in the Professions
　

Book
Mak, G.C.L. (Ed.) (1996). Women, Education and Development in Asia. New York: Garland.

Postiglione, G., & Mak, G.C.L. (Eds.) (1997). Higher Education in Asia: An International Handbook and Reference Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood.

Book Chapters
Mak, G.C.L. (1996). Primary and Secondary Education. In Myaw M. K. and Li S.M. (Eds.), The Other Hong Kong Report 1996. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press.

Mak, G.C.L, & Chung, Y.P. (1997). The Education and Labour Force Participation of Women in Hong Kong. In F. M. Cheung (Ed.), Engendering Hong Kong Society. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press.

Mak, G.C.L. (1998). Classroom Management in China: Personalizing Groupism. In N. K. Shimahara (Ed.), Politics of Classroom Life: Classroom Management in International Perspective. New York: Garland.

Mak, G.C.L. (1998). Women’s Education, Career and Family in China in an Intergenerational Perspective. In I. Elgqvist-Saltzman, A. Mackinnon and A. Prentice, (Eds.), Dangerous Terrain for Women? Education into the Twenty-first Century. London: Falmer.

Mak, G.C.L. (2002). The Development and Prospect of Women’s Education in Hong Kong SAR, China. In Qiang Haiyan, ed. Zhongwai nuxin jiaoyu fazhan yu bijiao (A Comparative Study of the Development of Women’s Education in China and Abroad). (pp. 104-124). Shaanxi: Shaanxi renmin jiaoyu chubanshe. (in Chinese)

Refereed Journal Articles
Mak, G.C.L. (1997). Reconstructing Schooling Processes--A Review of Gail Kelly’s Works on Colonial Education in Indochina and French West Africa, 1918-1938. Comparative Education Review 41, No. 2, 210-213.

Mak, G.C.L. (1999). Politics of Curriculum: Changes in Professional Studies in Teacher Education Curriculum in China. Education Journal 26, Winter 1998 & 27, Summer 1999: 345-360.

Mak, G.C.L. (2000). A Comparison of Local Schools and International Schools from the Perspectives of Three Hong Kong Students. Journal of Basic Education 9, No. 2/10, No. 1: 91-95. (in Chinese)

Mak, G.C.L. (2003). The Adaptation of and Contradictions in the Child-centered Approach in Mainland China and Hong Kong. Kechen yu jiaoxue (Curriculum and Instruction) 6, No. 2. (in Chinese) 「以兒童為 中心」的理念在中、港的變奏與矛盾 <課程與教學> 2003, 6(2), pp. 31-48.

Mak, G.C.L. (2003). The professionalization of Hong Kong teachers: Dilemma between technical rationality and individual autonomy. Asia Pacific Education Review Vol. 4, no. 2.

Educational Commentaries in the local press (in Chinese)
Mak, G.C.L. (Jan 3, 2001). The haunting spirit of elitism. The Hong Kong Economic Journal (HKEJ).

Mak, G.C.L. (Aug 29, 2000). Newly arrived Hong Kong immigrant children in Toronto. HKEJ.

Mak, G.C.L. (July 6, 2000). The myth of Hong Kong as a cosmopolitan metropolis. HKEJ.

Mak, G.C.L. (May 10, 2000). Gender and education in Hong Kong and mainland China. HKEJ.

Mak, G.C.L. (Mar 14, 2000). On the choice between two types of teacher stress. HKEJ.

Mak, G.C.L. (Jan11, 2000). Aesthetic life and aesthetic education. HKEJ.

Reviews
Mak, G.C.L. (2000). Review of the book Values in Education: Social Capital Formation in Asia and the Pacific. Asia-Pacific Journal of Education 20, No. 1: 108-109.

nvention.  July 2-5, 1999.  Washington, D.C.

Journal Editorship
1997-2001 Editor, Journal of Basic Education (renamed from Primary Education) (CUHK)

1992-present Associate Editor, Education Journal (CUHK)

International Consultancy
March 2003 Short-term consultant to the World Bank “China: Fourth Basic Education Project” (Cr. 16367-CHA)

July 2002 Short-term consultant to the Asian Development Bank “Philippine Nonformal Education Project” (Loan 1254-PHI)

May 2001 Short-term consultant to the World Bank “CHINA: Basic Education in Poor and Minority Areas Project” (Cr. 2651-CHA)

1997-2000 Short-term consultant to a United Nations Development Programme/Government of Finland sponsored project “China Rural Officials Training Centre” (CPR/96/503/C/01/99).

Committee Membership
Member, Public Education & Research Committee, Equal Opportunities Commission, Hong Kong, Sep 2000 – present

Member, Council, Save the Children Fund, Hong Kong; Co-Chairperson, China Committee, 2002-present.

Member, China Committee, Save the Children Fund, Hong Kong, 2000–2002.

External Examiner
External Examiner for Course 220C (Education and Society), BEd programme, The Open University of Hong Kong, 1999-2002, 2002-2004.

Reviews
Manuscript reviewer for local journals (Education Journal, Education Research Journal, and New Horizons); and international journals (Comparative Education Review, Higher Education, Teacher College Record, Curriculum Inquiry, and Asia-Pacific Journal of Education).

External Assessor, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2003.