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Private schools in the People's Republic of China: Development, modalities and contradictions
Get PDFChinese private schools may come across as a contradictory phenomenon: why would an authoritarian and officially socialist government, that needs to rely on education as an instrument of national unification and ideological control, allow for private schools and profit-making in the educational sector? However, seen against the background of the far-reaching privatisation processes that have been shaping the Chinese economy and society since the 1990s, one might equally wonder why this seemingly all-pervading privatisation wave had for a long time stopped short of the educational realm. This chapter outlines the development, modalities, and contradictions of private schools in the Peopleâs Republic of China
âWe Have Many Options, But They are All Bad Options!â: Aspirations Among Internal Migrant Youths in Shanghai, China
No full textâBe useful to societyâ: parental academic involvement in rural to urban migrant childrenâs education in China
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Gender Role Expectations and Chinese Mothersâ Aspirations for their Toddler Daughtersâ Future Independence and Excellence
No full textAre children of rural migrants more delinquent than their peers? A comparative analysis of delinquent behaviors in the City of Guangzhou, China
No full textGenerationing Development: an introduction
Get PDFmarkdownabstractThis introduction chapter sets out the overall framework informing the volume
and surveys the relevant literature. It lays out a relational approach to studying
children, youth and development with age and generation as key concepts.
This chapter introduces and develops these central ideas, and their various
interpretations, and links them to the contributing chapters
