Educating the Chinese Individual

Life in a Rural Boarding School

AvMette Halskov Hansen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

In twenty-first-century China, socialist educational traditions have given way to practices that increasingly emphasize the individual. This volume investigates that trend, drawing on Hansen's fieldwork in a rural high school in Zhejiang where students, teachers, and officials of different generations, genders, and social backgrounds form what is essentially a miniature version of Chinese society. Hansen paints a complex picture of the emerging “neosocialist” educational system and shows how individualization of students both challenges and reinforces state control of society.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-01-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Educating the Chinese Individual
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:University of Washington Press
ISBN:9780295994086

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Asiens historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Pedagogik inom Psykologi och pedagogik

Mer om författaren

Mette Halskov Hansen is professor of China studies at the University of Oslo. She is the author of Lessons in Being Chinese: Minority Education and Ethnic Identity in Southwest China and coeditor of iChina: The Rise of the Individual in Modern Chinese Society.

Recensioner i media

"Educating the Chinese Individual is an ethnographically rich and stimulating study. It enriches our knowledge about a relatively under-studied group—rural youth and young teachers—in a marginal setting. It challenges some common assumptions of the changing landscape of school education and everyday cultural practice of the younger generations in post-socialist China. . . . This book will attract a wide readership in educational studies but will also appeal to audiences in sociology and anthropology who are interested in social change and youth culture in contemporary China."

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Chinese Education and Processes of Individualization1. Discipline and Agency: Quests for Individual Space 2. Text and Truth: Visions of the Learned Person and Good Citizen 3. Hierarchy and Democracy: Controlled Rise of the Individual 4. Motivation and Examination: The Making and Breaking of the Individual 5. Dreams and Dedications: Teachers’ Views and the Construction of a Generation Gap Conclusion: Authoritarian Individualization NotesGlossary of Chinese Names and Terms Bibliography Index