Spotlight on China : : Changes in Education under China’s Market Economy /

Spotlight on China : : Changes in Education under China’s Market Economy / / edited by Shibao Guo, Yan Guo.

Fuelled by forces of globalization, China has gradually shifted from a centrally planned economy to a socialist market economy. Under the market economy China has experienced a massive and protracted economic boom. It is not clear however whether recent economic changes have brought the same miracle...

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Superior document:Spotlight on China
HerausgeberIn:
Guo, Shibao.
Guo, Yan.
Place / Publishing House:Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2016.
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Language:English
Series:Spotlight on China
Physical Description:1 online resource (390 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Changes in Education under China’s Market Economy: An Introduction
  • Section I: Market Economy and Curriculum Reform
  • Neo-Liberal Education Policy in China: Issues and Challenges in Curriculum Reform
  • Social Change, Citizenship, and Citizenship Education in China Since the Late 1970s
  • English as a Foreign Language Curriculum Reform in China: A Study in Reconstructionism
  • Ambivalent “Quality” and the Educational Sublime: Curriculum Reform Meets Ethnic Rural Development in Southwest China
  • Shadow Education: The Rise and Implications of Private Supplementary Tutoring
  • Section II: Teaching under China’s Market Economy
  • Teaching under China’s Market Economy: The Experience of Migrant Teachers
  • The Impact of the Market Economy on English Teachers
  • Overworked and Stressed Teachers under the Market Economy: Case Study in Northwest China
  • Private Tutoring Cum Boarding Agencies and the Controlled Decentralization of China’s Education System; Section III: Changes in Higher Education; Chinese Higher Education Since 1977: Possibilities, Challenges and Tensions; Institutional Transformation and Aggregate Expansion of Chinese Higher Education System
  • Massification of Chinese Higher Education: Opportunities and Challenges in a Globalizing Context
  • What Does Innovation Mean and Why Does It Matter? Innovation in Chinese Higher Education in a Global Era
  • Section IV: Transitions from Education to Work
  • Education and Career Mobility under China’s Market Economy: A Pre- and Post-Reform Comparative Analysis
  • Social Inequality in Postgraduate Transition: A Case Study of University Students in Western China
  • Transitions from Education to Work: Dilemmas and Challenges of Graduate Un/employment
  • Section V: Market Economy and Social Inequality
  • Inequalities in China’s Compulsory Education: Progress, Inadequacies, and Recommendations
  • Widening Urban Rural Divides: Examining Social Exclusion and Education Inequality in Chinese Schools
  • Navigating the Aspirational City: Processes of Accumulation in China’s Socialist Market Economy
  • Educating Migrant Children: The Effects of Rural-Urban Migration on Access to Primary Education
  • Postscript: Policy, Markets and the Local
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index.

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