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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Philosophy</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Philosophy</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Cерия: Философия</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-2302</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2408-8900</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">29693</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-2302-2021-25-4-613-625</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION: CHALLENGES OF MODERNITY</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ФИЛОСОФИЯ ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ: ВЫЗОВЫ СОВРЕМЕННОСТИ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Interrogating Values of Adult Education Practice in Hong Kong</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Исследование ценностей обучения и образования взрослых в Гонконге</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Chan</surname><given-names>Benjamin Tak Yuen</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Чан</surname><given-names>Бенджамин Так Юен</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>EdD, Dean of Li Ka Shing School of Professional and Continuing Education, Hong Kong Metropolitan University (HKMU LiPACE) and Honorary Associate Professor of Education</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>EdD, декан Школы профессионального и непрерывного образования Ли Ка Шинг, Гонконгский столичный университет (HKMU LiPACE) и почетный адъюнкт-профессор образования</p></bio><email>btychan@hkmu.edu.hk</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Hong Kong Metropolitan University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Столичный университет Гонконга</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2021-12-16" publication-format="electronic"><day>16</day><month>12</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>25</volume><issue>4</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION: CHALLENGES OF MODERNITY</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">ФИЛОСОФИЯ ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ: ВЫЗОВЫ СОВРЕМЕННОСТИ</issue-title><fpage>613</fpage><lpage>625</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2021-12-15"><day>15</day><month>12</month><year>2021</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2021, Chan B.T.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2021, Чан Б.Т.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2021</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Chan B.T.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Чан Б.Т.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/philosophy/article/view/29693">https://journals.rudn.ru/philosophy/article/view/29693</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p style="text-align: justify;">The practice of adult learning and education (ALE) in Hong Kong is lesser known to the wider community of ALE practitioners due to lack of exchanges with international peers. There is a small community of full-time ALE practitioners working mainly in university continuing education schools but a larger body of uncharacterised or alternative practitioners can also be found. Essentially, both types of practitioners are conservative in their outlook and they adopt strategies that align with market needs and priorities set by public funders. Under the backdrop of neoliberalism which has harmonised ALE practice worldwide, a dominant form of individualised learning makes it difficult to promote group learning for societal advancement. ALE practitioners in Hong Kong are no exception to this influence and have been found to profess philosophical orientations favouring the behaviourist/narrowed progressivist notions of learner empowerment for economic and personal gains. Given recent worldwide renewed enthusiasm in making ALE responsive to societal issues, this paper examines the options and learning areas that ALE practitioners in Hong Kong can make their contributions to, such as: health advocacy, climate justice, and media literacy. Through engaging in these aspects of work, practitioners will have to incorporate methods of facilitating group learning in formal and non-formal ALE programmes and courses. An embrace by practitioners of the original notion of progressivist philosophy in adult education may emerge as one of the outcomes to make ALE practice inclusive, relevant and socially responsible. Even with the ongoing COVID-19 health crisis, it is deemed even more pressing to pursue a balanced practice approach that can take care of individual's skills transformation for post-COVID economy as well as developing human bonds that would help to make society progressive as a countercheck to neoliberal-inspired individualistic adult learning.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p style="text-align: justify;">Обучение и образование взрослых в Гонконге менее представлены широкому экспертному сообществу практиков сферы образования взрослых из-за отсутствия обменов с коллегами. Существует лишь небольшое количество штатных специалистов данной отрасли, работающих, в основном, в университетских центрах непрерывного образования, однако прослеживается и более многочисленная группа нестандартных или альтернативных специалистов. По сути, все выделяемые типы сотрудников отрасли консервативны в своих взглядах и принимают стратегии, которые соответствуют потребностям рынка и приоритетам, установленным государственными финансирующими организациями. В условиях неолиберальной парадигмы, которая гармонизировала обучение и образование взрослых во всем мире, доминирующая форма индивидуальных траекторий затрудняет продвижение группового обучения для развития общества. Специалисты сферы образования взрослых не являются исключением и, как выяснилось в ходе изучения, склоняются в пользу бихевиористских/узких прогрессивистских понятий расширения возможностей обучающегося для экономической и личной выгоды. Учитывая вновь возникшие энтузиазм и запрос к образованию взрослых на реакцию на общественные вызовы, автор данной статьи рассматривает социально значимые области, такие как пропаганда здорового образа жизни, изменение климата, медиаграмотность, которые могут выиграть от развития сферы непрерывного образования. Принимая во внимание перечисленные аспекты, специалистам рекомендуется внедрить методы содействия групповому обучению в формализованные и неформализованные программы и курсы для взрослой аудитории. Принятие исходного понятия прогрессивистской философии в образовании взрослых работающими в данной сфере позволит сделать практику обучения и образования взрослых инклюзивной, актуальной и социально ответственной. В условиях продолжающейся пандемии COVID-19 еще более актуальной представляется необходимость применения сбалансированного практического подхода, который позволит трансформировать навыки индивида и подготовиться к «постковидным» экономическим реалиям. Также важной остается проблематика развития социальных связей, которые помогли бы сделать общество более прогрессивным и выступить в противовес неолиберальному индивидуалистическому подходу к обучению взрослых.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Adult education</kwd><kwd>adult learning and education</kwd><kwd>values</kwd><kwd>Hong Kong</kwd><kwd>lifelong learning</kwd><kwd>philosophy of education</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>образование взрослых</kwd><kwd>обучение и образование взрослых</kwd><kwd>ценности</kwd><kwd>Гонконг</kwd><kwd>непрерывное образование</kwd><kwd>философия образования</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Elias JL, Merriam SB. Philosophical Foundations of Adult Education. 3rd ed. Malabar, FL: Krieger; 2005.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><label>2.</label><mixed-citation>Zinn LM. Identifying your philosophical orientation. In: M.W. 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