Spotlight on China : changes in education under China's market economy / edited by Shibao Guo and Yan Guo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Guo, Shibao, 1965- editor.

Guo, Yan (Associate professor), editor.

ebrary, Inc.

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Series:

Spotlight on China ; volume 1.

Spotlight on China ; volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--China--History--21st century.

Education, Higher.

Education, Higher--China--History--20th century.

Educational change.

History.

China.

Educational change--China--History--21st century.

Educational change--China--History--20th century.

China--Economic policy.

Economic policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 396 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Changes in education under China's market economy

Place of Publication:

Rotterdam, The Netherlands ; Boston : Sense Publishers, [2016]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Changes in education under China's market economy: an introduction / Shibao Guo and Yan Guo

Neo-liberal education policy in China: issues and challenges in curriculum reform / Charlene Tan and Vicente Reyes

Social change, citizenship, and citizenship education in China since the late 1970s / Wing-Wah Law

English as a foreign language curriculum reform in China: a study in reconstructionism / Margaret Zeegers and Xiaohong Zhang

Ambivalent "quality" and the educational sublime: curriculum reform meets ethnic rural development in southwest China / Jinting Wu

Shadow education: the rise and implications of private supplementary tutoring / Wei Zhang and Mark Bray

Teaching under China's market economy: the experience of migrant teachers / Shibao Guo

The impact of the market economy on English teachers / Yan Guo

Overworked and stressed teachers under the market economy: case study in northwest China / Gulbahar Beckett and Juanjuan Zhao

Private tutoring cum boarding agencies and the controlled decentralization of China's education system / Ying Wang and Raymond K.H. Chan

Chinese higher education since 1977: possibilities, challenges and tensions / Lei Zhang, Ruyue Dai and Kai Yu

Institutional transformation and aggregate expansion of Chinese higher education system / Fengqiao Yan, Dan Mao and Qiang Zha

Massification of Chinese higher education: opportunities and challenges in a globalizing context / Hongxia Shan and Shibao Guo

What does innovation mean and why does it matter? Innovation in Chinese higher education in a global era / Heidi Ross and Yimin Wang

Education and career mobility under China's market economy: a pre- and post-reform comparative analysis / Jianghua Yang, Cheng Cheng and Yanjie Bian

Social inequality in postgraduate transition: a case study of university students in western China / Yixi Lu and Li Zong

Transitions from education to work: dilemmas and challenges of graduate un/employment / Limin Bai

Inequalities in China's compulsory education: progress, inadequacies, and recommendations / Hillary Parkhouse and Xue Lan Rong

Widening urban rural divides: examining social exclusion and education inequality in Chinese schools / Li Wang

Navigating the aspirational city: processes of accumulation in China's socialist market economy / Lorin Yochim

Educating migrant children: the effects of rural-urban migration on access to primary education / Charlotte Goodburn

Postscript: policy, markets and the local / Allan Luke.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

9789462098817

9462098816

Publisher Number:

99969256203

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.