Educating the Chinese Individual
| Author | : Mette Halskov Hansen |
| Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
| Total Pages | : 233 |
| Release | : 2015-01-01 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780295805436 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0295805439 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (439 Downloads) |
Download or read book Educating the Chinese Individual written by Mette Halskov Hansen and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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