Xin Xiang

Unequal Learning (eBook, ePUB)

Education and Society in Contemporary China

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Despite a nominal commitment to creating a classless society, the People's Republic of China is a deeply unequal one. And the reproduction of inequality begins early in the life cycle: schools. In Unequal Learning, Xin Xiang analyzes the different kinds of learning that goes on in four very different schools in locales ranging from an impoverished rural region to a prosperous city. As she shows, the different learning opportunities available in these four communities contribute to the widening gulf between the rising metropolitan middle class and China's working classes. This will be essential reading not just for scholars of China, but anyone interested in how education systems reproduce inequality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP eBook
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197783825
• Artikelnr.: 73146897

Autorenporträt

Xin Xiang is an assistant professor at Beijing Normal University (Zhuhai), a member of the Institute of International and Comparative Education and the Center for Educational Science and Technology at BNU. Xin obtained her B.A. and Ph.D. degree from Harvard University. Her research and teaching focuses on educational inequality in China and decoloniality in global knowledge production. She also leads a Guangzhou-based grassroot nonprofit organization that seeks to empower marginalised youth.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword (Howard Gardner)
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Education and Inequality in the Modern World
Chapter 2: Four Schools in a Stratified Educational System
Chapter 3: Learning in Family and Communal Endeavors
Chapter 4: Learning through Formal Instruction
Chapter 5: Learning in Organized Activities
Chapter 6: Learning through Play
Chapter 7: Transforming Schools and Transforming Society
References