Description
School Choice in China
A different tale?
Education and Society in China Series
Author: Xiaoxin Wu
Language: EnglishSubject for School Choice in China:
Keywords
fee; key; schools; junior; middle; fees; process; senior; minban; compulsory; Choice Fee; School Choice Process; Key Schools; Choice Fees; Junior Middle Schools; Influential Guanxi; Key Middle School; Senior Middle School; Minban School; Mao Zedong; Oversubscribed Schools; School Choice Market; Extracurricular Classes; Compulsory Education Sector; Private Tutoring Market; School Choice; Memo Students; Guanxi Networks; Incidental Fee; Social Reproduction; Preferred School; High Transition Rates; Self-employed Businessmen; Institutionalized Cultural Capital; Working Class Counterparts
Approximative price 172.36 €
In Print (Delivery period: 14 days).
Add to cart the print on demand of Xiaoxin WuPublication date: 09-2013
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 03-2018
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
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School Choice in China explores the major characteristics of schooling options in China, highlighting how largely middle-class parents exploit their cultural, economic and social capital for their children's admission into choice schools. It highlights how payments such as choice fees, donations, prize-winning certificates and awards, as well as the use of guanxi, result in Chinese school choice as a parent-driven, bottom-up movement. The author also explores how schools and local governments cash in on the school choice fever in order to obtain significant economic returns, leading to policies that accommodate the needs of mostly middle-class families. He argues that although this system seems to create winners among the parties involved, it exacerbates the educational inequality that already exists in Chinese society.
Chapters include:
- Positional competition for cultural capital
- Exploitation of social capital
- Economics of school choice
- Class reproduction through parental choice
This book is not simply a detailed analysis of Chinese school choice practices, but also a study of the competitive middle class search for advantage for their children. As such it will be beneficial to undergraduates, postgraduates, education professionals, policy makers, and anyone with an interest in education, sociology, social policy, and the rise and future of China.
Introduction 1. School Choice in the Global and Chinese Context 2. Key School System 3. Creation of the School Choice Market 4. Positional Competition for Cultural Capital 5. Exploitation of Social Capital 6. Economics of School Choice 7. Class Reproduction through Parental Choice Conclusion