Fabricating an educational miracle : compulsory schooling meets ethnic rural development in Southwest China / Jinting Wu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wu, Jinting, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Rural--China, Southwest.

Education, Rural.

Rural development--China, Southwest.

Rural development.

Southwest China.

Physical Description:

xxi, 268 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2016]

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

The rural ethnic as political projects: development's storied edges

The politics of compulsory education: universal ideals and local discontent

New bottles, old wine: governing "quality" and the new curriculum reform

Emperor's new clothes: unlocking educational audit culture in Qiandongnan

Tourism as spatial pedagogy and new rural literacy

The way out (??): life after the school walls crumble.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438460376

1438460376

OCLC:

908838835