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Foreword

This capacity depends on all of us providing dynamic learning platforms for students to practise
learning about knowledge-formations that are inter- and trans-disciplinary; based on team and
individual projects that engage discovery, analysis, and presentation; learning how research
moves them back and forth from the classroom to the city and beyond; and finding organized
moments in which they can catch their breath and reflect upon the connective webs with
which they are involved. Teaching and learning must be relational, innovative, experimental,
and energizing, and GE programmes across the city provide opportunities for this precisely sort
of individual, group, and institutional practice.

Everything is connected; everything requires cultural, linguistic and pedagogical translation;
and everything requires a capacity for imagining and reasoning, the dyad that creates creativity
in the world. GE helps us learn the skills and scholarly context of this connectivity. This book
lays out the context of GE as it connects across the university sector, the community college
sector, and establishes the pathways between.
Hong Kong is renowned for its tertiary higher education system and this collaborative work —
supported so generously by FSTE and the EDB — and focused on GE articulations between the
“sectors” will only strengthen that renown even further.

We hope it is useful for you and for the students of the city.

Professor Gray Kochhar-Lindgren
Professor and Director
The Common Core
The University of Hong Kong

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