Författare: Daniel T. L. Shek

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Daniel T.L. Shek (Ph D, FHKPS, BBS, SBS, JP) is the Chair Professor of Applied Social Sciences at the Department of Applied Social Sciences and Associate Vice President (Undergraduate Programme) of Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has taught social work students at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels for over thirty years. He was Dean of Students (1996-1998) and Dean of General Education (2006-2008) at New Asia College, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Youth Studies and Applied Research on Quality of Life and serves on the editorial board of many international refereed journals including Social Indicators Research and Journal of Adolescent Health. To date, he has published over 85 books, 154 book chapters and more than 500 articles in international refereed journals. Dr. Chan received his Ph D from The University of Rochester, where he was a member of the Production Automation Project under Professor Herbert Voelcker. He then worked on a NURBS-based surface modeling system for industrial design for Neo-Visuals in Toronto. Subsequently he became a research officer for the National Research Council of Canada on computer-integrated manufacturing and represented Canada in the development of the international product data exchange standard, STEP. He joined the then Hong Kong Polytechnic in 1993. Dr. Chan is a firm believer of service learning. He has taken students to service projects in Hong Kong, Hubei and Gansu in mainland China, Cambodia, Myanmar and Rwanda. Together with Dr. Vincent Ng and Dr. Grace Ngai, he was given the Faculty of Engineering Award (Team) in Teaching in 2007. Together with several other colleagues, he was given the President’s Award (Team) in Services in 2008. He was appointed the founding head of the Office of Service-Learning in 2012. Dr. Ngai received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University in 2001. Her thesis supervisor was Professor David Yarowsky. Prior to that, she studied Engineering at Brown University, where she got her Sc.B. She also got her M.S.E. (Masters of Science in Engineering) at JHU along the way to getting her Ph.D. Dr. Ngai’s main research interest is in human-centered computing, including Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Affective Computing. Specifically, she is interested in how humans use computers, the interplay between culture and computing, the aspect of computing that interacts back at the human, and computing that interacts with the environment. Dr Ngai’s other research interests are in computational linguistics and statistical natural language processing. She is also very interested in computing education and educational technology.




10 E-böcker av Daniel T. L. Shek

Daniel T. L. Shek & Robert M. Hollister: University Social Responsibility and Quality of Life
This book provides a critical review of the theory and practice of University Social Responsibility. In addition to addressing the nature of and concepts surrounding University Social Responsibility, …
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Engelska
€96.29
Daniel T. L. Shek & Grace Ngai: Service-Learning for Youth Leadership
This book examines service-learning – a valuable means of promoting civic engagement and youth leadership in students by enabling them to apply their knowledge to needy people in the community. It de …
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Engelska
€96.29
Daniel T.L. Shek & Ying Keung Chan: Quality-of-Life Research in Chinese, Western and Global Contexts
The majority of studies on the quality of life have been conducted in Western contexts and are based on Western participants. Comparatively speaking, there are only a few studies that have been condu …
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Engelska
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€213.99
Daniel T.L. Shek & Rachel C. F. Sun: Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong
This book documents the findings of a 3-year longitudinal study on the quality of family life, personal well-being and risk behavior in Chinese adolescents in Hong Kong. It presents the profiles of q …
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Engelska
€53.49
Daniel T.L. Shek & Po Chung: Promoting Service Leadership Qualities in University Students
This book outlines the development of service leadership curricula, programs and materials designed for university students in Hong Kong. In addition, it includes evaluation studies and specific serv …
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Engelska
€53.49
Tak Yan Lee & Daniel T.L. Shek: Student Well-Being in Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong
This book reviews the theories regarding commonly occurring developmental issues among Chinese adolescents in Hong Kong, the application of Positive Youth Development (PYD) to a large-scale primary p …
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Engelska
€53.49
Daniel T.L. SHEK & Rachel C. F. Sun: Development and Evaluation of Positive Adolescent Training through Holistic Social Programs (P.A.T.H.S.)
This book outlines the development, implementation and evaluation of a project entitled “P.A.T.H.S. to Adulthood: A Jockey Club Youth Enhancement Scheme, ’ with P.A.T.H.S. denoting Positive Adolescen …
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Engelska
€96.29
Jeffrey L. Derevensky & Daniel T. L. Shek: Youth Gambling
Youth gambling represents a potentially serious public policy and health issue. Nevertheless, the rise in youth gambling issues and problems in the global context is not matched with a parallel incre …
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Engelska
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€140.95
Grace Ngai & Daniel T.L. Shek: Service-Learning Capacity Enhancement in Hong Kong Higher Education
This book provides an in-depth, multi-faceted look into capacity building for service-learning, using the case of the higher education landscape in Hong Kong. Service-learning has been proven to be a …
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Engelska
€117.69
Daniel T.L. Shek: Service Leadership Education in an Era of Service Economy
In this book, we report evaluation findings based on different service leadership subjects and programs. Generally speaking, the reported findings replicated the previous evaluation findings of the S …
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Engelska
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€204.18