Navigating The Aspirational City
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Navigating The Aspirational City
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Author : Lorin G. Yochim
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-11-01
Navigating The Aspirational City written by Lorin G. Yochim and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-01 with Education categories.
Navigating the Aspirational City forwards a theory of contemporary Chinese urban educational culture that focusses on historical conceptions of “the good citizen” and the contemporary material environments within which parents pursue their childrearing projects.
Navigating The Aspirational City
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Author : Lorin Geoffrey Yochim
language : en
Publisher: Spotlight on China
Release Date : 2018-10-18
Navigating The Aspirational City written by Lorin Geoffrey Yochim and has been published by Spotlight on China this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-18 with Education categories.
The re-emergence of China as a world power promises to be the signal economic, political, cultural, and social development of the 21st century. In the face of its rise, fine grained accounts of the shape and texture of this new China are both timely and necessary.0Navigating the Aspirational City forwards a theory of contemporary Chinese urban educational culture that focusses on the influence of dominant conceptions of "the good citizen" and the material environment upon parents as they pursue their childrearing projects. The book provides a description of the beliefs and practices of urban Chinese parents as they "educate" their children. These beliefs and practices are placed in relation to a historical chain of ideas about how to best educate children, as well as within the urban context in which they are produced and reproduced, renovated, and transformed.0Beginning with a history of revolutionary "orders of worth" culminating in the "aspirational cite," the book details the shifting standards that define the "human capital" conditions of possibility of a developed modern economy. It goes on to describe a set of policies and practices known as san nian da bianyang by which the whole of one particular city, Shijiazhuang, has been demolished, re-built, and re-ordered. Contemporary China is, the author contends, no less revolutionary than Mao's, noting that parents' beliefs and practices articulate with the present ideational and material context to produce what appears, at times, to be radical transformation and, at others, remarkable stability.
Navigating The Aspirational City
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Author : Lorin G. Yochim
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Navigating The Aspirational City written by Lorin G. Yochim and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Cities and towns categories.
In this dissertation I present an account of the educational culture of a single city in north-central China. I use ethnographic methods to explore the perspectives of middle class parents on the meaning and purpose of "education" and the educational activities in which they engage. As this is also a critical ethnography, I respect the specificity and complexity of the beliefs, experiences, and practices of these parents, but remain cognizant of the relations that bind present to past, personal to cultural, and local to national and global. I compile a history of Revolutionary "orders of worth" culminating in the "aspirational cité," a comprehensive set of evaluative standards that define the "human capital" conditions of possibility of a developed modern economy. I also describe a set of policies and practices known as san nian da bianyang by which the whole of Shijiazhuang is being demolished, re-built, and re-ordered. I reconstruct how the aspirational cité and the built environment of Shijiazhuang have come together at a particular moment in time, and the ways in which this configuration articulates with the educational ideas and practices of Shijiazhuang's emerging middle class. I find that new Chinese cities house a middle class disposed to collect and activate stocks of economic, social, and cultural capital. They do so in a collection of pedagogical spaces within which the kinds of subjects imagined in the aspirational cité are subject to myriad forms of pedagogic action. This project is shifting the subjectivity of middle class pledges, embedded within the resurgent institution of the family, toward conspicuous consumption, social differentiation, family-level "individualization," and "projects of the self." Yet it has also sowed the seeds of its own destruction. Instead of contributing newly accumulated cultural capital to the task of nation building, many of these "new Chinese" focus on personal gain and even abandon the nation in whole or in part.
Spotlight On China
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Author : Shibao Guo
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-03-22
Spotlight On China written by Shibao Guo and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-22 with Education categories.
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 to education in China. Spotlight on China brings together established and emerging scholars from China and internationally in a dialogue about the profound social and economic transformation that has resulted from the market economy and its concomitant impact on education in China. The book covers a wide range of topics, including: • Market economy and curriculum reform• Teaching under China’s market economy• Changes in higher education• Transitions from education to work • Market economy and social inequality With its broad scope and fresh critical perspectives, this collection offers a most contemporary and comprehensive analysis of possibly the largest education system in the world. Lessons learned from the China experiment will inform researchers and educators about social and educational reforms in other countries which are undergoing similar fundamental changes. Spotlight on China provides a state of the art picture: dynamic, partial, full of contradictions and tensions, and, as we speak, in movement and local reconfiguration.” – Allan Luke, Queensland University of Technology. “The book moves social science research on China’s education another step forward by refining the balance between the viability of mainstream western concepts and the analytical possibilities of creating a new scholarship based on a deeper understanding of the historically grounded realities of contemporary Chinese education.” – Gerard A. Postiglione, The University of Hong Kong"
Bourdieu And Sino Foreign Higher Education
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Author : Guanglun Michael Mu
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-03-31
Bourdieu And Sino Foreign Higher 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 2023-03-31 with Education categories.
Bourdieu’s sociology has traditionally been confined to the limits of its French national context. This edited collection seeks to challenge these boundaries, applying Bourdieu’s analysis of practice to Chinese education as it gains relevance and attention around the globe. This book stems from the conviction that empirical investigation and conceptual inventiveness are needed to understand the historical and contextual particularities of Sino-foreign higher education. It brings the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu to the specificity of higher education in and for China and the multi-scalar complexity of higher education beyond the nation. Aggregating recent Bourdieu-informed investigations of empirical worlds of Sino-foreign higher education, the volume mainly considers two problems: structures and strategies of advantage behind institutional and individual action in Sino-foreign higher education; and student participation in the practices of that higher education. The volume probes the potential of Bourdieusian theory and methodology for understanding Chinese higher education beyond the nation. This book is written to engage with the intellectual work of both established scholars and higher degree research students within China and beyond. The empirical studies provide useful insights for educational leaders in Chinese higher education sectors and in the universities of English-dominant western countries where students and researchers from China have been a growing presence. The theoretical and methodological discussions will be pertinent to scholars who are interested in Bourdieu’s sociology and sociology of higher education.
Narrative Inquiries From Fulbright Lecturers In China
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Author : Shin Freedman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-06-07
Narrative Inquiries From Fulbright Lecturers In China written by Shin Freedman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-07 with Education categories.
This collection of nine Fulbright educators’ narrative accounts examines how these scholars navigated their teaching responsibilities with students, time with fellow colleagues, and cultural expectations in China, ranging from experience in teaching arts and government to questions of religion, emotional literacy, and urban infrastructure. With these contributions, authors analyze their own expectations against their actual experiences in order to offer insights for scholars and students of study abroad programming. As a roadmap for negotiating China’s higher education network and for taking advantage of any cross-cultural educational environment, this book highlights the type of fruitful educational programming that can come from cultural, historical, economic, and political difference.
Bourdieu And Chinese Education
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Author : Guanglun Michael Mu
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-10-26
Bourdieu And Chinese Education written by Guanglun Michael Mu and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-26 with Education categories.
This book uses Bourdieu’s sociological approach for research as a jumping-off point for framing our understandings and analyses of China and Chinese education. Three major themes—inequality, competition, and change—are explored across several theoretical and contextual bases. Bringing together top scholars in the field, the volume examines empirical studies that analyse social (im)mobility through education for students affected by the social divides of class, culture and rural/urban locations; teacher identity and the field of schooling in the current Chinese environment and going forward; and the university as an institution for the production of knowledge about education in the globalising academy. Offering insights into the historical and cultural context for China’s educational landscape, the contributions of this book revisit Bourdieusian concepts from a new empirical vantage point and bring together key studies that illuminate new pathways for the study of Chinese sociology of education.
Migrant Children In State Quasi State Schools In Urban China
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Author : Hui Yu
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-11-18
Migrant Children In State Quasi State Schools In Urban China written by Hui Yu and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-18 with Education categories.
Highlighting the changing landscape of Chinese urban state schools under the pressure of recruiting a tremendous number of migrant children, this book examines the quality of state educational provisions from demographic, institutional, familial and cultural angles. Rooted in rich qualitative data from five Chinese metropolitan cities, it identifies the demographic changes in many state schools of becoming ‘migrant majority’ and the institutional reformation of ‘interim quasi-state’ schools under a low cost and inferior schooling approach. This book also digs into the ‘black box’ of cultural reproduction in school and family processes, revealing both a gloomy side of many migrant children’s academic underachievement as a result of troubled home-school relations and a bright side that social inclusion of migrant children in state school promotes their adaptation to urban life. The author concludes that migrant children’s experiences in state (and quasi-state) schools turn them into a generation of ‘new urban working-class’. The monograph will be of interest to scholars, students, practitioners and policymakers who want to better understand educational equality for migrants and other marginalised groups.
Being Modern In China
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Author : Paul Willis
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2019-11-11
Being Modern In China written by Paul Willis and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-11 with Social Science categories.
This book analyses modernity and tradition in China today and how they combine in striking ways in the Chinese school. Paul Willis – the leading ethnographer and author of Learning to Labour – shows how China has undergone an internal migration not only of masses of workers but also of a mental and ideological kind to new cultural landscapes of meaning, which include worship of the glorified city, devotion to consumerism, and fixation upon the smartphone and the internet. Massive educational expansion has been a precondition for explosive economic growth and technical development, but at the same time the school provides a cultural stage for personal and collective experience. In its closed walls and the inescapability of its ‘scores’, an astonishing drama plays out between the new and the old, with a tapestry of intricate human meanings woven of small tragedies and triumphs, secret promises and felt betrayals, helping to produce not only exam results but cultural orientations and occupational destinies. By exploring the cultural dimension of everyday experience as it is lived out in the school, this book sheds new light on the enormous transformations that have swept through China and created the kind of society that it is today: a society that is obsessed with the future and at the same time structured by and in continuous dialogue with its past.
The Power To Navigate Life
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Author : Tony Fahkry
language : en
Publisher: Tony Fahkry
Release Date : 2014-06-26
The Power To Navigate Life written by Tony Fahkry and has been published by Tony Fahkry this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-26 with Self-Help categories.
The Power to Navigate Life is arguably the most complete and powerful teachings on the mastering of life. Ten years ago, Australian author, speaker, health advisor and acclaimed life coach, Tony Fahkry, heard the word that changed his life forever: cancer. It was his moment of awakening and the first step towards embracing the perfection of life. A decade on and the release of: ‘The Power to Navigate Life’, is the culmination of that journey. The culmination of more than ten years personal experience, observations whilst working one-on-one with clients, facilitating workshops and seminars, ‘The Power to Navigate Life’ is a unique program of understanding the function between mind and body to achieve mental, emotional and physical wellbeing. “Being told I had cancer had a profound effect,” said Fahkry. “It helped me to realise that there were areas which were disempowering – I needed to take decisive action to move forward. Each one of us has a host of unique and infinite possibilities and options. ‘The Power to Navigate’ helps to embrace that potential by releasing the individual talents, skills, and passion within everyone of us.” ‘The Power to Navigate Life’ has already drawn international attention. New York Times best-selling author, Dr. Eldon Taylor has written the forward to the book and testimonials have added further weight to the principles explored. The Power to Navigate Life is a book like no other, with three main principles- Health & Well-being Personal Growth Self-Awareness The Power to Navigate Life is your opportunity to experience a rewarding life by developing; sound health and emotional well-being from the very first page. You will see that there is more to life than paying bills, being unhappy, always sick or being in a relationship that does not serve you. Includes Working diagrams (Map of Life), offering a strategic blueprint that will support you in your quest for a better life. The questionnaire at the back of the book will help you identify issues within your life, issues that you probably were not aware you had. Receive The Power to Navigate your Life by Tony Fahkry, a leading; holistic, health and self-empowerment specialist. The knowledge within is the culmination of more than ten years of personal experience, as well as the observations, working one-on-one with clients, facilitating workshops and seminar. Tony offers a unique perspective of understanding the function between mind and body to achieve mental, emotional and physical well-being.