Spotlight on China

Changes in Education under China's Market Economy

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Fuelled by forces of globalization, China has gradually shifted from a centrally planned economy to a socialist market economy. Under the market economy China has experienced a massive and protracted economic boom. It is not clear however whether recent economic changes have brought the same miracle to education in China. Spotlight on China brings together established and emerging scholars from China and internationally in a dialogue about the profound social and economic transformation that has resulted from the market economy and its concomitant impact on education in China. The book covers a wide range of topics, including:
Market economy and curriculum reform
Teaching under China’s market economy
Changes in higher education
Transitions from education to work
Market economy and social inequality

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Preliminary Material
Pages: i–xi
Neo-Liberal Education Policy in China
Issues and Challenges in Curriculum Reform
Pages: 17–33
Ambivalent “Quality” and the Educational Sublime
Curriculum Reform Meets Ethnic Rural Development in Southwest China
Pages: 67–84
Shadow Education
The Rise and Implications of Private Supplementary Tutoring
Pages: 85–99
Teaching under China’s Market Economy
The Experience of Migrant Teachers
Pages: 101–118
Overworked and Stressed Teachers under the Market Economy
Case Study in Northwest China
Pages: 137–152
Chinese Higher Education Since 1977
Possibilities, Challenges and Tensions
Pages: 171–189
Massification of Chinese Higher Education
Opportunities and Challenges in a Globalizing Context
Pages: 215–229
What Does Innovation Mean and Why Does It Matter?
Innovation in Chinese Higher Education in a Global Era
Pages: 231–243
Education and Career Mobility under China’s Market Economy
A Pre- and Post-Reform Comparative Analysis
Pages: 245–265
Social Inequality in Postgraduate Transition
A Case Study of University Students in Western China
By: Yixi Lu and Li Zong
Pages: 267–289
Transitions from Education to Work
Dilemmas and Challenges of Graduate Un/employment
By: Limin Bai
Pages: 291–308
Inequalities in China’s Compulsory Education
Progress, Inadequacies, and Recommendations
Pages: 309–327
Widening Urban Rural Divides
Examining Social Exclusion and Education Inequality in Chinese Schools
By: Li Wang
Pages: 329–343
Navigating the Aspirational City
Processes of Accumulation in China’s Socialist Market Economy
Pages: 345–363
Educating Migrant Children
The Effects of Rural-Urban Migration on Access to Primary Education
Pages: 365–380
Postscript
Policy, Markets and the Local
Pages: 381–386
Notes on Contributors
Pages: 387–392
Index
Pages: 393–396
With its broad scope and fresh critical perspectives, this collection offers a most contemporary and comprehensive analysis of possibly the largest education system in the world. Lessons learned from the China experiment will inform researchers and educators about social and educational reforms in other countries which are undergoing similar fundamental changes.

“Spotlight on China provides a state of the art picture: dynamic, partial, full of contradictions and tensions, and, as we speak, in movement and local reconfiguration.” — Allan Luke, Queensland University of Technology

“The book moves social science research on China’s education another step forward by refining the balance between the viability of mainstream western concepts and the analytical possibilities of creating a new scholarship based on a deeper understanding of the historically grounded realities of contemporary Chinese education.” — Gerard A. Postiglione, The University of Hong Kong

"[T]he book is an important contribution to educational sciences – not only because we can learn a lot about China and its education, but also about many similarities and differences with educational development on the global scale." — Darko Štrajn (2017) Spotlight on China. International Review of Education, 63: 941-943.
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