Preferential Education Policies in Multi-ethnic China: National Rhetoric, Local Realities explores the cultural logic of China's preferential policy measures. Similar in premise but different in practice and philosophy to American affirmative action, the preferential policies evoke controversy on all sides: from those who see the measures as insufficient to address problems of educational disparities between ethnic groups, and from those who see the measures as "reverse discrimination." Yamada shows how the policy measures attempt to manage ethnic-based contradictions and appease both majority and minority populations.…mehr
Preferential Education Policies in Multi-ethnic China: National Rhetoric, Local Realities explores the cultural logic of China's preferential policy measures. Similar in premise but different in practice and philosophy to American affirmative action, the preferential policies evoke controversy on all sides: from those who see the measures as insufficient to address problems of educational disparities between ethnic groups, and from those who see the measures as "reverse discrimination." Yamada shows how the policy measures attempt to manage ethnic-based contradictions and appease both majority and minority populations.
Naomi C.F. Yamada is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Education of Global Communication, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan. She received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Hawai'i at M¿noa.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction: Preferential Policies And Preparatory Programs 2. The Cultural Logic of Policy: Producing and Reproducing the Educated Person 3. Strategy and Counter-Strategy: The Landscape of Higher Education in China 4. Standardization and Modification: 'Minority' as a Type of Education 5. The Fine Lines of Contradiction: Tolerable Forms of Difference 6. A Stable Rationale, A Changing Economy: Education and the Means of Development 7. Conclusion: A Dialectic without Synthesis?
1. Introduction: Preferential Policies And Preparatory Programs 2. The Cultural Logic of Policy: Producing and Reproducing the Educated Person 3. Strategy and Counter-Strategy: The Landscape of Higher Education in China 4. Standardization and Modification: 'Minority' as a Type of Education 5. The Fine Lines of Contradiction: Tolerable Forms of Difference 6. A Stable Rationale, A Changing Economy: Education and the Means of Development 7. Conclusion: A Dialectic without Synthesis?
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