Class work : vocational schools and China's urban youth / T.E. Woronov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woronov, T. E. (Terry Ellen), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vocational education--China.

Vocational education.

Educational sociology.

Urban youth--Education.

Social aspects.

Urban youth.

Vocational school students.

China.

Vocational school students--China.

Urban youth--Education--Social aspects--China.

Educational sociology--China.

Physical Description:

viii 185 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]

Summary:

Class Work explores the consequences for Chinese youth who fail the state's high-stakes exams. Through a study of two urban vocational schools in Nanjing, China, Woronov shows how marginalized students in these schools are caught in the complex intersections of socialist and capitalist modes of production in China today and the rapid transformation of its cities into post-industrial, service-based economies. Class Work shows how urban vocational schools aren't merely "holding tanks" for academic failures, they're incipient sites for the formation of a new working class.

Contents:

Introduction : numeric capital

Vocational schools

Vocational students

Teachers, teaching, and curricula

Creating identities

Jobs, internships, and the school-to-work transition

Conclusion : precarious China.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-172) and index.

ISBN:

9780804795418

080479541X

9780804796927

0804796920

OCLC:

905759246