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):

Rural development--China, Southwest.

Rural development.

Education, Rural--China, Southwest.

Education, Rural.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Place of Publication:

Albany, [New York] : SUNY Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Illustrates the changing significance of what it means to be educated, rural, and ethnic in Southwest China.

Contents:

Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Outline of the Work; Acknowledgments; 1 The Rural Ethnic as Political Projects: Development's Storied Edges; Conceptual Issues: Theorizing Modernity, Subalternity, and Nation-State; The Vicissitude of the Rural as Political Projects; Desire, Fear, and Emaciation of the Rural; History of Participation in Nation-Building: Geopolitics of Guizhou and Qiandongnan; "Minority Work" and State Discipline; Contemporary Guizhou and Its Meandering Path to Modernity; Rural Development in Qiandongnan; Ethnographic Context, Research Design, and Politics of Fieldwork

Fieldwork in Qiandongnan2 The Politics of Compulsory Education: Universal Ideals and Local Discontent; Village Schools, Nation State, and Compulsory Technologies; Brief History of China's Compulsory Education Policies; Participatory Limits as Situated Subjectivity; Epistemic Dissonances; Abstraction, Regimentation, and Compartmentalization; Ordering Adolescence as Serialization of Life; The "Educated Person" Contested; Revivalism as Marginality; Provincializing Literacy; Coda; 3 New Bottles, Old Wine: Governing "Quality" and the New Curriculum Reform; Suzhi: Etymology and Cultural Politics

A Genealogy of Suzhi as Ideal PersonhoodSuzhi Education and Curriculum Reform; Suzhi in Paradoxes: Narratives of Qiandongnan; Discipline or Punish: The War on Child-Centeredness; Suzhi jiooyu On-and Off-Stage; Provincializing Suzhi/Quality; 4 The Emperor's New Clothes: Unlocking Educational Audit Culture in Qiandongnan; Performance Audit: A Pluralized Site of Governing; Educational Inspection: A Painstaking Orchestration; Audit Preparation; Audit Spectacle; Behind the Audit Spectacle; Fabricating School Data; Persuading Dropouts; Deciphering State Officialdom

Performative Efficacy and FormalismRethinking the Political through the Lives of Village Teachers; Dancing in Chains; Spatial Pedagogies: Tourism as Ballads of Development; The Vernacular Modern and Spatial Fabrication; Village Schools in the Remaking of Spatial Order; Land Struggle and Official-Merchant Alliance; Tourism, Rural Teachers, and Market Literacy; Teachers and Moonlighting; Tourism as New Rural Literacy; Reconstituting Rural Teacherhood; Coda; 5 Tourism as Spatial Pedagogy and New Rural Literacy; Spatial Pedagogies: Tourism as Ballads of Development

The Vernacular Modern and Spatial FabricationVillage Schools in the Remaking of Spatial Order; Land Struggle and Official-Merchant Alliance; Tourism, Rural Teachers, and Market Literacy; Teachers and Moonlighting; Tourism as New Rural Literacy; Reconstituting Rural Teacherhood; Coda; 6 The Way Out (出 ) Life after the School Walls Crumble; From Vulnerable Studentship to Floating Population: Urban Itineration, Marriage, and Aspiration; Where Am I and Where Is It that I Am to Be?; The Society Is My School; Ethnic Entrepreneurs: Becoming Craftsmen and Entertainers; Persuading the Birds: Youth and Urban Consumption; Continuing the Path of Schooling; Coda; Conclusion Along the Development Grains: Disenchantment of Education Revisited; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438460383

1438460384