Dr Cheng Yuk Tin is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Applied Social Sciences. He has dedicated his effort in nurturing reflective professionals with ethical sensitivity in his teaching. In the past 16 years, apart from delivering a clear, logically- structured content to the students, Dr Cheng has attempted to arouse students’ imagination and engage them in the lectures by using a wide variety of resources from movies, lyrics, comics, episodes from everyday life, historical records, examples from frontline practice, published reflections of professionals, etc. Students are engaged in in-depth reflections of their personal/professional experience through a series of case studies of their own and other students’ fieldwork/frontline experience.

Through trustful dialogues, students are encouraged to explore their own value framework. In these processes, students are facilitated to draw insights from the concepts and arguments they have learned in the lectures to critically reflect on their experiences as professionals. Besides, Dr Cheng has drawn out the existential implications of the concepts and arguments introduced.

In these years of teaching, Dr Cheng has made effort to address the affect dimension of learning in his lectures. By the use of songs and analysis of lyrics, he has helped students to attend to the practical implications of the philosophical concepts introduced for understanding the subtlety of emotions, values and relationships. Furthermore, by taking a reflexive turn, he has showed the existential relevance of the analysis introduced through an articulation of his experience.

• PhD, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• MPhil, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• BSW, The Hong Kong Polytechnic
• DSW, The Hong Kong Polytechnic