This book documents and analyses how outsourcing of teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) is practised, arising issues therein, and how to address them, through the frame of policy enactment theory. Educational outsourcing or contracting out is globally adopted to increase cost-efficiency, diversify curricula, and complement teacher expertise. However, it often results in issues of quality and equity, inadvertently compromising student learning and limiting the mobility of students from low-income families. The book draws on document-based research involving 131 schools in Hong Kong and case studies and a survey with selected schools and educational service providers. This book is of interest to policymakers, school leaders, teachers, and educational service providers, as it suggests the strategies addressing the abovementioned issues and will advance their understanding of educational outsourcing, equity, and policy processes.
Introduction
.- Section I Outsourcing of teaching English for other languages and related issues
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Chapter 1 Enactment of outsourcing in Hong Kong
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Chapter 2 Quality of outsourced education
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Chapter 3 Equity of outsourced education
.- Section II Solutions and implications
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Chapter 4 Ensuring quality and equity of outsourced education
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Chapter 5 Reconceptualising equity, outsourcing and policy enactment
.- Conclusion.
Dr. Choi Tae Hee is Associate Professor at the Southampton Education School, University of Southampton, and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK, and of the East-West Center, USA. She served as President of the Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong (20162018) and is a Co-Convenor of the Policy Studies and Politics of Education network of the European Educational Research Association (2023-present). She received her M.A. degree in second language studies at University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA, and her Ph.D. in Education from Kings College London, UK. She has taught on B.A., M.A., and/or Ph.D. programmes in Korea, USA, UK, and Hong Kong.
Her research focuses on change processes, such as educational reforms and teacher development. She has 100+ publications including 25 articles published with high impact journals, given over 80 keynotes, talks and seminars in countries across Europe, Asia, and North America. Previously, she was Visiting Lecturer (20102013) and Visiting Senior Lecturer (2019) at Kings College London, UK. She published about thirty ESOL learning and teaching resources.
