Dragon Taels - Softcover

Students O Hong Kong International School

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1893075206 ISBN 13: 9781893075207

Publisher: Spirit Press/Q Press, 2007

Synopsis

The first twenty years at Hong Kong International School were a time of social and educational experimentation. A church-based K-12 school set in idyllic hills overlooking one of the most beautiful tropical beaches in the world provided the setting. Overseas and locally hired teachers led academic activity and befriended students with determination to help them succeed. Students from several world cultures accepted the challenge and expectation of high academics while having good times creating their own fun and enjoying the diversity that Hong Kong offered. Families experienced bonding adventures and wrenching situations. Distance from the homeland wore on some more than others. Next door, there was a Cultural Revolution happening that walled in the 400 square miles of the British enclave. Yet there were beautiful isolated beaches, campsites to utilize, trails to hike, bays to sail, concerts to attend, music to play, gourmet food to eat, and a world to explore. This book is a compilation of their stories, in their own words, arranged by topics so important to school-age kids - food, entertainment, adventures, friends, family, teachers, and school - in good times and bad. Reading this book will verify David Pollack's premise that children raised in this type of setting develop their own culture - The Third Culture Kid. They survive and thrive. Enjoy the rich stories from this golden age. It can never be duplicated.

About this title

About the Author:

Dave Kohl is a teacher. For 32 years he taught and demonstrated studio art and art history to secondary classes in Chicago, Hong Kong, and Clackamas Oregon. He continues to teach art appreciation activities at Portland's Classical Chinese Garden, adjunct courses at Concordia University, and through writing. He is an avid gardner of bamboo, a philistine cook, and an organizer of group activities in the Portland area, of reunions, and of small group overseas travel experiences. He is a collector of antiquarian art, history, and travel books, with a special interest in Asian art history. With an educational background in Lutheran primary and secondary schools, he graduated from Concordia Teachers College, Nebraska, in 1968 with a double major in art education and social studies. Graduate work at the University of Illinois led to a MA in Art Education in 1972. Next stop was Hong Kong International School, where Dave taught all high school art subjects, led several tours into China and Southeast Asia, and earned an MA in Comparative Asian Studies from HKU in 1978. Returning to the United States in 1980 to raise his family, he taught in the secondary schools of Clackamas, Oregon, and served as adjunct instructor of art at Concordia University. He currently operates his own pottery studio, researches and writes history, is active in the alumni association of HKIS, and participates in several community musical organizations. Three books have resulted form his authorship: Chinese Architecture in the Straits Settlements (1984); A Curious and Peculiar People (2006) (IPY Silver Award medalist); and Dragon Taels (2007).

About this edition

• Publisher: Spirit Press/Q Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1893075206
• ISBN 13: 9781893075207
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Number of pages: 250
• Editor: David Grant Kohl