Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 1979

Professor To Cho-Yee Professor Cho-Yee To attended Sung Lan, Pui Ying and Clementi middle schools for his primary and secondary education. H e then received his training at Grantham Teachers' Training College and completed his teacher's certificate course in 1956. Subsequently, while teaching at Kei Yan School in Hong Kong , he enrolled at the United College of Hong Kong and graduated with a Diploma in Social Studies in 1959. From 1962 to 1967, Professor To went to the United States to pursue postgraduate studies in education and philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis (M.A., 1963), The University of Michigan, and Southern Illinois University (Ph.D., 1967). A s a graduate student, he worked closely with internationally known scholars such as George E. Axtelle, Nelson Bossing, John L. Childs, George S. Counts, Morris S. Eames and Lewis E. Hahn. His dissertation is entitled "John Dewey's Conception of the Relation of Education to the Democratic Ideal". Professor To began his academic career in 1964 as a Research Assistant at the Centre for Dewey Studies, Southern Illinois University and later was appointed Lecturer in Education at the same University. He joined the University of Michigan in 1967 as Assistant Professor of Education and was promoted to Associate Professor of Education in 1972. He has been Professor of Education since 1976 and was also Chairman of the Programme in Social Foundations, The University of Michigan, before he assumed the Professorship of Education and Directorship of the School of Education at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in August 1979. Professor To has published numerous research articles and reviews in various academic and profession journals- and is the co-author of three books: The Images of U.S.A. (A comparative cross-cultural study of the development of American civilization) collaborated with William K. Medlin, Lloyd H. Hughes, and Kenneth D. Nordin. Ann Arbor: Ann Arbor Publishers,1971;AnExperimentalistApproach to Counseling (with Richard T. Knowles, Forewor d by Garry R. Walz.) Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Educational Resources Information Centre for Counseling and Personnel Service, 1974; and Minshu-Shugi no Kyoiku Shido-Keiken-Shugi Kaun- serigu no genri (The revised, enlarged, Japanese edition of A n Experimentalist Approach to Counseling Tokyo: Koryosha Shoten, 1976. He is currently working on two books, The use of Preferential Treatments in Education, and John Dewey' s Philosophy of Guidance and Counseling. The latter study is supported by a research grant from the John Dewey Foundations, U.S.A.