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Private schools in the People's Republic of China: Development, modalities and contradictions
Chinese 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
Generationing Development: an introduction
markdownabstractThis 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