Happiness in Higher Education in Hong Kong: an Anthropology Study

Kelly K. L. Chan

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Seiten:: 117–128

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004395794_015

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Since the transfer of sovereignty from the United Kingdom to China took place in 1997, Hong Kong has been going through an identity crisis, questioning Beijing’s sincerity in maintaining its wellbeing. In recent years, there has also been a continuous decline in the level of happiness in Hong Kong. Among the 158 countries and territories assessed, Hong Kong ranked 75th in 2016,¹ down from 72nd in 2015,² 64th in 2013,³ and 46th in 2012⁴ in the World Happiness Report. However, statistical comparison of happiness is not enough, empirical cross-cultural research on happiness or wellbeing fails to identify and explain the nature of happiness and the different ways of ‘being well’.⁵ From the anthropology perspective, humans do not have one single ‘pursuit of happiness’.⁶ Nonetheless, socio-cultural anthropology has been institutionally averse to the study of happiness;⁷ and there is very little understanding of what constitutes happiness in the context of education, one exception being the work of Noddings.⁸ The inattention to ‘happiness’ in education studies, policies and evaluations fails to consider either the happiness of students or the contribution of education to lifelong happiness. This anthropological study is interested in how university students define ‘happiness’, and how happiness is constituted and experienced in the context of higher education. The study started in January 2016 and is currently being carried out in Hong Kong. Rather than numbers, this study asks: 1. What ‘happiness’ means in a higher education context in Hong Kong; 2. How ‘happiness’ is expressed and experienced in the higher education institutes; and 3. How ‘happiness’ relates to learning.

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Perspectives on Happiness

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Reihe: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries, Band: 121

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Print-Publikationsdatum:: 23 Mar 2019

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