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Learning To Be Tibetan - The Construction Of Ethnic Identity At Minzu University Of China

by Miaoyan Yang

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 This study examines the role of Chinese state schooling in the construction of Tibetan ethnic identity. Based on ethnographic research at Minzu University, it analyzes various patterns of ethnic identification among students and investigates the ways in which minority education in China functions to cultivate ideological loyalty to the state.
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Learning To Be Tibetan - The Construction Of Ethnic Identity At Minzu University Of China

by Miaoyan Yang

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 This study examines the role of Chinese state schooling in the construction of Tibetan ethnic identity. Based on ethnographic research at Minzu University, it analyzes various patterns of ethnic identification among students and investigates the ways in which minority education in China functions to cultivate ideological loyalty to the state.
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Social Structuration In Tibetan Society - Education, Society, And Spirituality

by Jia Luo

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 This book provides a broad sociological study of Tibetan education and knowledge production. It examines Tibetâ€™s traditional social structures and hierarchies, analyzes spiritual dimensions of its culture and their role in education, and applies social and philosophical theories to Tibetan society.
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Muslim Uyghur Students In A Chinese Boarding School - Social Recapitalization As A Response To Ethnic Integration

by Yangbin Chen

119,25€ + 10% CARD

 Chen employs social capital as a conceptual tool to explore the life experience of a group of young Muslim students within the Han Chinese mainstream society.
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Identity And Schooling Among The Naxi - Becoming Chinese With Naxi Identity

by Haibo Yu

119,25€ + 10% CARD

 Identity and Schooling Among the Naxi examines the identity construction of Naxi students in Lijiang No.1 Senior Secondary School in China, focusing on the changing roles of school, community, and family in the identity construction of the students.
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Discursive Construction Of Intercultural Understanding In China - A Case Study Of An International Baccalaureate Diploma Program

by Wang Xi

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 This book represents an ethnographic study of an International Baccalaureate Diploma Program in a school in mainland China, serving Chinese students and staffed by teachers from a variety of origins. It offers in-depth descriptions of the way in which students, teachers, and managers interact and communicate with one another in a variety of school activities. Through the communication process, cultural experiences and understandings are negotiated constantly among school participants. The ethnographic study also has a critical intention. Going beyond description, the author discusses the extent to which networks of social relationships in the case are imbued by asymmetries in power, and how this leads to people’s inability, unwillingness, and unawareness to interact with those from different cultural backgrounds. As research findings reveal, where the construction of meaning is less equally available to each participant, prejudice and exclusiveness are more likely to be assumed, impeding individuals’ intercultural learning. The key is to empower those less privileged, giving them legitimacy to come to voice in an institutional context on the one hand, and protecting their reflections on hegemonic discourse meticulously on the other hand. Since the research explores the complexities and subtleties of the communication process that are bound to particular contexts, like most ethnographic studies, it aims at adding a body of experience and humanistic understanding of cultures, rather than testing theories. Although the IB Program being studied can hardly be representative of the overall development of international education in China, the detailed description of contextual issues of the case and the research procedures could facilitate the readers to vicariously experience these events, thus they can make their own decisions about the transferability of the research to their own unique situations.
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Policy Metamorphosis In China - A Case Study Of Minban Education In Shanghai

by Xiaojiong Ding

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 This book delineates the history of minban/private education in mainland China, particularly its current form. It studies the process of policy implementation in the domain of minban education, on the basis of which the Chinese central-local relationships and the contemporary model of state governance are analyzed.
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Becoming A Model Minority - Schooling Experiences Of Ethnic Koreans In China

by Fang Gao

107,33€ + 10% CARD

 Becoming a Model Minority adopts sociology of education to analyze the strength of the model minority stereotype in ethnic Korean students' school practices in Northeast China. Academic scholars who are interested in issues of race, ethnicity, and equity in education; bilingual and multicultural education; sociology of education; education for ethn
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Social Structuration In Tibetan Society - Education, Society, And Spirituality

by Jia Luo

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 This book provides a broad sociological study of Tibetan education and knowledge production. It examines Tibetâ€™s traditional social structures and hierarchies, analyzes spiritual dimensions of its culture and their role in education, and applies social and philosophical theories to Tibetan society.
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Power And Moral Education In China - Three Examples Of School-Based Curriculum Development

by Wangbei Ye

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 In Power and Moral Education in China, Wangbei Ye examines China's recent initiation of school-based curriculum development in moral education as a means to analyze the power redistribution brought about by China's economic reform. Though there is a great deal of scholarship dealing with moral education in China, the role of power has never been systematically discussed in relation to this topic.
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Implementation Of Inclusive Education In Beijing - Exorcizing The Haunting Specter Of Meritocracy

by Kai Yu

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 The education implementation process in China remains uncharted by researchers. The Implementation of Inclusive Education in Beijing: Exorcizing the Haunting Specter of Meritocracy puts forth a general theory on China’s education programs, encompassing policy processes, actions, and interactions and grounded on the views of street-level bureaucrats in China. Kai Yu investigates these processes and presents teachers’ reflections on the change process, as well as implementation stories from four Beijing schools. He reports on their attitudes, their beliefs, and their pedagogical practices for implementing the innovative education program. Yu argues that the imperatives of meritocratic ideology have undermined the detracking policy and its practice. The strength of a program of change rests not so much on the power of the ideas, purposes, and values as on the reinterpretation of the implementers based on their personal understandings of institution and practice.
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Power And Moral Education In China - Three Examples Of School-Based Curriculum Development

by Wangbei Ye

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 In Power and Moral Education in China, Wangbei Ye examines China's recent initiation of school-based curriculum development in moral education as a means to analyze the power redistribution brought about by China's economic reform. Though there is a great deal of scholarship dealing with moral education in China, the role of power has never been systematically discussed in relation to this topic.
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China'S Mongols At University - Contesting Cultural Recognition

by Wing On Lee e Zhenzhou Zhao

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 Minority students in China often receive preferential treatment for access to universities. However, very little is known about minority student experiences and perceptions on campus after they are accorded what''s called "meaningful access" to university. The Mongols emerged as a distinct ethnic group in China starting in the 11th century and, in the centuries that followed, conquered a large part of the world. However, in modern times this nomadic people''s influence has declined, and even their survival in China has been threatened. This decline is evidenced by the fact that increasing numbers of Mongols have abandoned their native language and traditional customs, especially those who live in cities. How do Mongol university students, who form the backbone of the Mongol intellectual community, identify themselves in a modern Chinese context? How do they react as university students to the way in which their culture is recognized and represented? Do Mongol students suffer from injustice in the cultural dimension of campus life? China''s Mongols at University: Contesting Cultural Recognition seeks to answer these questions. Zhenzhou Zhao addresses these issues by comparing the university discourse (on minority culture policy, institutional structure and daily life) and the Mongol student discourse (concerning their experiences, perceptions of recognition, and dedication to self-representation on campus) Additionally, Gao compares three universities in China. Located in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Beijing, and Hubei Province, respectively, each of these universities represents one of three types of higher education accessible to minority students in China: universities located in ethnic areas, standard universities, and universities for nationalities. China''s Mongols at University explores and discusses an intrinsic connection between marketization and globalization and the disadvantages faced by minority groups. This book argues that China must move from a policy of preferential tre
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Demoralization Of Teachers - Crisis In A Rural School In China

by Dan Wang

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 The educational system in China is marked by its dramatic inequality between rural and urban schools. The challenges facing rural schools are usually understood as disadvantages in funding, facilities, and staffing, which consequently result in undesirable student performance in general. This book, however, penetrates these phenomena on the surface and brings forth a much deeper moral crisis in rural education, a crisis that is entrenched in the complicated interlocking of formal and informal institutions within and beyond the school. The Demoralization of Teachers describes the work and workplace in a rural school from the perspective of teachers who were working there. It faithfully depicts the lamentable state of teachers’ work morale in the school and, little by little as if a detective story, reveals the reasons for the teachers’ demoralization by vivid narratives. The book demonstrates the profound impact on the meanings of teaching exerted by the state curriculum reform, the formal and informal norms and regulations in the school, and the erosion of moral integrity in the state bureaucracy and the society at large. The crisis in the rural school stops to be a "rural" or educational problem in nature, but mirrors the societal-wide transformation in political economy as well as in ideology in the current reform China. The sheer complexity of the moral crisis in this ethnography calls for renewed efforts to identify and investigate the educational problems in rural China from fresh theoretical perspectives that situate rural education in broader historical and social contexts and processes.
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Policy Metamorphosis In China - A Case Study Of Minban Education In Shanghai

by Xiaojiong Ding

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 This book delineates the history of minban/private education in mainland China, particularly its current form. It studies the process of policy implementation in the domain of minban education, on the basis of which the Chinese central-local relationships and the contemporary model of state governance are analyzed.
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Muslim Uyghur Students In A Chinese Boarding School - Social Recapitalization As A Response To Ethnic Integration

by Yangbin Chen

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 Chen employs social capital as a conceptual tool to explore the life experience of a group of young Muslim students within the Han Chinese mainstream society.
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State Schooling And Ethnic Identity - The Politics Of A Tibetan Neidi Secondary School In China

by Zhiyong Zhu

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 Presents the schooling context for Tibetan students who migrated from Tibet Autonomous Region to Neidi temporarily for special educational support to Tibet by the State government. This work shows that the ethnic identity constructed by Tibetan students has, to a large extent, meet the state government's political and economic interests.
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Higher Education As A Field Of Study In China - Defining Knowledge And Curriculum Structure

by Xin Wang

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 Higher Education as a Field of Study in China concerns higher education as an academic field--the evolving nature of the field in light of the overall development of higher education in China. Xin Wang illustrates how higher education is becoming an interdisciplinary field rather than a subfield under the discipline of education, especially when hi
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Student Loans In China - Efficiency, Equity, And Social Justice

by Baoyan Cheng

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 In 1989, China started charging tuition on a very small scale at a number of universities as a result of the global trend of cost-recovery policies, thus ending the free higher education era in China. It was not until 1997 that all higher education institutions in China started charging tuition and fees. Both the expansion of higher education and the wide gap between income and tuition and fees have created an increasingly high proportion of students who are academically qualified but cannot afford to go to college. To address the problem of the increasing number of financially needy students, in 1999, China launched the pilot Government-subsidized Student Loan Program (GSSLP) in eight cities. This program was extended to full-time students at all of the 1,942 public higher education institutions in 2000, and has been undergoing revisions ever since, including major ones in 2004 and 2007. As of 2009, the number of financially needy students in China reached 5.27 million, accounting for 23.06 percent of the total enrollment of 22.85 million at higher education institutions in China. Behind those statistics are young people who suffer in many ways. This book provides multiple perspectives, namely, global, comparative, empirical, practical and philosophical ones, on the GSSLP, the largest financial aid program in current China. It not only provides information on financial aid policies, especially the GSSLP, in China, but also offers a comparative perspective by examining student loan programs in the United States and Australia, which are more mature and better developed. Using original dataset, the empirical and practical perspectives examine the effect of the GSSLP on students'' behavior, and look into the different aspects of the GSSLP, including students'' perceptions of and attitudes toward the program, as well as its implementation. In addition to these technical aspects of the GSSLP, this book also examines the larger concepts of equality and social justice from a philosophical perspective, and argues
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Property Ownership And Private Higher Education In China - On What Grounds?

by Spring Su

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 Recent decades have witnessed the proliferation in China of huge numbers of private universities and colleges in response to a wide-ranging spectrum of socio-economic and political demands under the country''s flourishing market economy and its wholesale pursuit of decentralization. This book explores the issue of property ownership, an area which is regarded as an essential element in the attraction into the sector of local private institutions and foreign partnerships, as well as in facilitating the future development of the country''s existing institutions. The focus throughout this book is primarily on the legal, economic, managerial and financial aspects of the relevant issues, as well as other related topics, such as consumer protections and fund-raising activities. A feasibility analysis and discussion is also provided on ''for-profit'' universities and their potential market niches in China, in recognition of the fact that the current regulations-which allow private universities to maintain a non-profit status whilst actually enjoying profit returns-clearly provides some legitimacy to the phenomenon of "for-profit in disguise." It is argued in this book that such quasi-profit regulations may further exacerbate profiteering behavior, whilst it is also noted that, in the short term, there is a clear need to provide adequate protections within the apparent hybrid version of an ownership system-a system characterized by a mix of capitalism and socialism-through the adoption of a definitive legal framework within which economic actors can coordinate their efforts through a mutually understood framework of action. Finally, it is clear that in the transition from the "rule-of-the-people" to the "rule-of-law," legislation, practices and compliance do not always go hand-in-hand in China; thus the healthy development of the educational sector will undoubtedly require some time, as well as the introduction of complementary mechanisms, for such legislation to be fully enforced in practice. This book concludes
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Higher Education As A Field Of Study In China - Defining Knowledge And Curriculum Structure

by Xin Wang

101,36€ + 10% CARD

 Higher Education as a Field of Study in China concerns higher education as an academic field--the evolving nature of the field in light of the overall development of higher education in China. Xin Wang illustrates how higher education is becoming an interdisciplinary field rather than a subfield under the discipline of education, especially when hi
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Identity And Schooling Among The Naxi - Becoming Chinese With Naxi Identity

by Haibo Yu

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 Identity and Schooling Among the Naxi examines the identity construction of Naxi students in Lijiang No.1 Senior Secondary School in China, focusing on the changing roles of school, community, and family in the identity construction of the students.
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The Discursive Construction Of Intercultural Understanding In China - A Case Study Of An International Baccalaureate Diploma Program

by Wang Xi

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The Implementation Of Inclusive Education In Beijing - Exorcizing The Haunting Specter Of Meritocracy

by Kai Yu

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