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Fabricating An Educational Miracle
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Author : Jinting Wu
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2016-01-11
Fabricating An Educational Miracle written by Jinting Wu and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-11 with Education categories.
Illustrates the changing significance of what it means to be educated, rural, and ethnic in Southwest China. In todays China, education is translated into both acute social desires and profound disenchantment. Shanghais stellar performance in the recent Program for International Student Assessment paints a celebratory image of educational success yet tells only a partial story. For many in rural China who are schooled yet prepared only for factory sweatshops, education remains an elusive ideal and offers a hollowed promise of social mobility. Fabricating an Educational Miracle laces together complex accounts of how compulsory education produces dilemmas and possibilities in village schools in Southwest China. Drawing from interviews, participant observations, oral history, and archival research in a Miao and a Dong village-town in Qiandongnan Prefecture, Guizhou Province, this book examines the manifold and contradictory agendas that have captured rural ethnic schooling at a crossroads. This trenchant but nuanced ethnography offers a searing account of a suffocating snarl of scientism, audit culture, authoritarian pedagogy, and underhand dealingsa bureaucratic jungle that few individuals successfully navigate, and in which most instead submit to the banal disfigurement of their cultural traditions for the benefit of well-heeled tourists or to the indignities of migrant labor in inhospitable cities. Even those few who find an open door hesitate, fearful that the lure of apparent opportunity might trap them and their families in an ever-accelerating downward spiral. Wus deeply affecting account, leavened and enriched by a wickedly ironic eye for the revelations to be extracted from the tiniest detail, illuminates life choices and chances in contexts national, local, and personal. It represents the ethnography of knowledge and education at its compelling best. Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University Jinting Wu presents a richly contextualized picture of education in contemporary rural China with a depth of knowledge and a command of ethnographic methods and appropriate theory that expands the picture beyond the confines of her research site and time. She weaves the many details together with a skill that allows the reader to understand their larger relevance and to not become overwhelmed. At the center of her levels of analysis is the dilemma that rural youth face as they struggle to decide whether or not to seek more education beyond what is compulsory. As Wu demonstrates, such a decision is not entirelyif at alla decision. John G. Richardson, Western Washington University Theoretically sophisticated, analytically nuanced, empirically vivid, Fabricating an Educational Miracle could be the finest ethnography of education since Philip Jacksons 1968 Life in Classrooms established the genre. Curriculum reform is no abstraction here: we become intimate with its unintended cultural and economic consequences as these are lived by actually existing individuals inhabiting a temporally heterogeneous now. Wus accomplishment is exceptional; it is profound. William F. Pinar, University of British Columbia
Fabricating An Educational Miracle
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Author : Jinting Wu
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2016-01-11
Fabricating An Educational Miracle written by Jinting Wu and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-11 with Education categories.
Winner of the 2017 American Educational Research Association's Division B Outstanding Book Recognition Award Winner of the 2017 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award In today's China, education is translated into both acute social desires and profound disenchantment. Shanghai's stellar performance in the recent Program for International Student Assessment paints a celebratory image of educational success yet tells only a partial story. For many in rural China who are schooled yet prepared only for factory sweatshops, education remains an elusive ideal and offers a hollowed promise of social mobility. Fabricating an Educational Miracle laces together complex accounts of how compulsory education produces dilemmas and possibilities in village schools in Southwest China. Drawing from interviews, participant observations, oral history, and archival research in a Miao and a Dong village-town in Qiandongnan Prefecture, Guizhou Province, this book examines the manifold and contradictory agendas that have captured rural ethnic schooling at a crossroads.
The Sage Handbook Of Sociology Of Education
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Author : Mark Berends
language : en
Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited
Release Date : 2023-12-06
The Sage Handbook Of Sociology Of Education written by Mark Berends and has been published by SAGE Publications Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-06 with Education categories.
The Sage Handbook of Sociology of Education is an international and comprehensive groundbreaking text that serves as a touchstone for researchers and scholars interested in exploring the intricate relationships between education and society. Leading sociologists from five different continents examine major topics in sociology from a global perspective. This timely, thought-provoking Handbook features contributions from leading and emerging sociology scholars, who provide their own cultural and historical perspectives on diverse—yet universal—topics; these include educational policy, social stratification, and cross-national research. 39 Chapters delve into the pressing issues faced by our global society, such as the effects of residential mobility on educational outcomes, gender and ethnic inequalities, and the impact of COVID-19 on early childhood education. Readers will gain a multifaceted view of the contours of educational inequality, from various international perspectives and focusing on country differences, as well as recommendations for expanding the practices, programs, and policies that could reduce the rising tide of inequities—especially for populations most at risk. This Handbook offers rich, diverse perspectives on the interplay between education, social inequality, and human rights around the world, making it an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and practitioners across a range of fields, including sociology, education, and social policy. PART 1: Education and Persistent Inequality PART 2: Social & Family Contexts PART 3: Schools & Educational Policy PART 4: Neighborhoods & Community PART 5: Education & Innovation in a Global Context
The Bloomsbury Handbook Of Bourdieu And Educational Research
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Author : Garth Stahl
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2024-02-08
The Bloomsbury Handbook Of Bourdieu And Educational Research written by Garth Stahl and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-08 with Education categories.
This book is the first international reference work to showcase the diversity of ways of using Bourdieu's sociological toolkit in educational research. Written by scholars based in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Indonesia, Hong Kong, the UK, and the USA, the handbook provides a unique and cutting-edge picture of how Bourdieu has been both used and adapted in educational research globally. The book will be useful for those who may only have a cursory knowledge of Bourdieu's tools as well as those who are already familiar with Bourdieu's work. The chapters cover a wide range of topics including educational leadership, teacher preparation, space/place, educational policy, literacy education, marginalised students, and student mobility.
Rural Education Across The World
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Author : Simone White
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-03-22
Rural Education Across The World written by Simone White and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-22 with Education categories.
This book brings together authors from United States, South Africa, United Kingdom, China, Canada and Australia to provide insights and case studies from across a range of contexts to explore the interplay between the notions of rurality, innovation and education. The book reveals a hopeful and resilient approach to innovative rural education and scholarship collectively and provides important evidence to speak against an often deficit view of rural education. Three patterns are revealed, namely: the importance of place-attentive strategies, the importance of joined up alliances to maximise resources and networks and finally, the need to utilize alternative methodologies and frameworks that have a starting point of difference rather than deficit for any rural initiative or approach. By drawing from international examples and responding in innovative ways to rural education challenges, this book provides an opportunity to share international insights into innovations, interventions and partnerships that promote and support rural education in its broadest sense.
Teacher Education Reform As Political Theater
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Author : Elena Aydarova
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2019-10-01
Teacher Education Reform As Political Theater written by Elena Aydarova and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-01 with Education categories.
An ethnography of Russian teacher education reforms as scripted performances of political theater. Around the world, countries undertake teacher education reforms in response to international norms and assessments. Russia has been no exception. Elena Aydarova develops a unique theatrical framework to tell the story of a small group of reformers who enacted a major reform to modernize teacher education in Russia. Based on scripts circulated in global policy networks and ideologies of national development, this reform was implemented despite great opposition—but how? Drawing on extensive ethnographic material, Aydarova teases out the contradictions in this process. Teacher Education Reform as Political Theater reveals how the official story of improving education obscured dramatic and, ultimately, socially conservative changes in the purposes of schooling, the nature and perception of teachers’ work, and the design of teacher education. Despite the official rhetoric, Aydarova argues, modernization reforms such as we see in the Russian context normalize social inequality and put educational systems at the service of global corporations. As similar dramas unfold around the world, this book considers how members of scholarly communities and the broader public can respond to reformers’ stories of crises and urgent calls for reform on other national stages. “This book provides an unprecedented ethnographic look into the making of national education policy. The setting, amazingly, is Russia, but the volume raises questions about how ideas become policy in other nations as well. It is thus a highly provocative and fascinating case study that should get the attention of anyone interested in national and global education policymaking.” — Kathryn Anderson-Levitt, coeditor of Comparing Ethnographies: Local Studies of Education Across the Americas
Recontextualising And Recontesting Bourdieu In Chinese Education
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Author : Guanglun Michael Mu
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-08-25
Recontextualising And Recontesting Bourdieu In Chinese Education written by Guanglun Michael Mu and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-25 with Education categories.
For more than 40 years, researchers have explored the utility of Bourdieu’s sociology for settings beyond the French and Algerian contexts of its origin. This edited collection has a focus on China, applying Bourdieu’s analysis of practice as Chinese education gains relevance and attention around the globe. Grounded in empirical research, Recontextualising and Recontesting Bourdieu in Chinese Education advances Bourdieu’s analysis of practice beyond national scales while producing new knowledge about the generation of habitus, mobilities, and languages in relation to Chinese education. Locating Chinese education within national and transnational contexts, this collection grapples with the structural invariances and inequivalences between Chinese education and society on the one hand, and social spaces in other parts of the world on the other hand. Through chapters that examine social mobility in the context of cross-border movement and delve into questions of language and power, this book recontests and problematises the use of Bourdieu’s sociology to theorise social classification and differentiation in China. This book is essential reading for Chinese educational researchers and practitioners, Bourdieusian scholars with particular interests in education, and sociologists of education broadly.
Trajectories In The Development Of Modern School Systems
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Author : Daniel Tröhler
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-05-15
Trajectories In The Development Of Modern School Systems written by Daniel Tröhler and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-15 with Education categories.
As contemporary education becomes increasingly tied to global economic power, national school systems attempting to influence one another inevitably confront significant tensions caused by differences in heritage, politics, and formal structures. Trajectories in the Development of Modern School Systems provides a comprehensive theoretical and empirical critique of the reform movements that seek to homogenize schooling around the world. Informed by historical and sociological insight into a variety of nations and eras, these in-depth case studies reveal how and why sweeping, convergent reform agendas clash with specific institutional policies, practices, and curricula. Countering current theoretical models which fail to address the potential pressures born from these challenging isomorphic developments, this book illuminates the cultural idiosyncrasies that both produce and problematize global reform efforts and offers a new way of understanding curriculum as a manifestation of national identity.
New Civics New Citizens
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-05-25
New Civics New Citizens written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-25 with Education categories.
A 2023 CIES Book of the Month pick! How we think about civic participation has changed dramatically and informs our understanding of how civic education is being transformed. Nations, globally, are redefining what is needed to be a ‘good citizen’ and how they should create them. ‘Civic’ participation increasingly extends beyond voting in elections, to informal and unconventional action. Making one’s voice heard involves diverse communication media and wide-ranging skills. Young people are motivated to engagement by concern about climate change and the rights of marginalised people. Social media empower but bring the threat of extremism. Civic education – New Civics – must channel and foster these trends. To create critical, active and responsible citizenship, knowledge alone is not enough; young people need to able to take critical perspectives on a wide range of social and political issues, and to acquire the social, cognitive and organizational skills to do so. How is new civics pedagogy being manifested? What traditional practices are under scrutiny? In this volume sixteen projects in eight countries address questions in research, practices, policy and professional development. What is civic identity and how does participation reflect it? Where do new discourses and definitions come from? How do contemporary social and cultural debates and issues intersect with practice and precepts?
The Right To Resist
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Author : Mario Wenning
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-01-12
The Right To Resist written by Mario Wenning and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-12 with Philosophy categories.
While the idea of total revolution seems anachronistic today, there is increasing consensus about the importance of new forms of political, ethical, and aesthetic resistance. In the past, resistance was often motivated as a form of protest against specific institutions. Increasingly, dissent has become integrated into the fabric of modern life. This volume addresses new forms of resistance at a level that combines a rootedness in the philosophical tradition and a sensitivity to rethinking the possibility of emancipation in today's age. The work focuses on contemporary social and political philosophy from a perspective informed by critical theory. The text specifically addresses three challenges. (1) Critical theorists need to investigate in which ways resistance, conformism, and oppression oppose and constitute each other. (2) The relationship between the theory and the practice of resistance needs to be posed anew, given recent protest movements and media of protest. (3) It needs to be shown in which ways different areas of society such as the arts, religion and social media establish divergent practices of resistance. The chapters are written by scholars from Asia, Europe and North America. These experts in resistance discourse focus on practices of dissent ranging from traditional forms of civil disobedience, to more recent practices such as guerrilla protest, art, and resistance in digital networks, including social media. What unites them is a shared concern for the dimensions of political acts of resistance in an age that is characterized by a tendency to integrate and thereby neutralize those very acts.