Rural education in China's social transition / edited by Peggy A. Kong, Emily Hannum and Gerard A. Postiglione.
| Other author | Kong, Peggy A. |
| Other author | Hannum, Emily. |
| Other author | Postiglione, Gerard A., 1951- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. |
| Description | pages cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Studies in Chinese education and society |
| Contents | Credit limits as an element of family socioeconomic status : an application to the case of children's educational outcomes in rural Gansu Province / Wensong Shen and Emily Hannum -- Engendering a love for learning : family and school contexts and children's educational engagement in rural Gansu, China / Yuping Zhang and Peggy A. Kong -- Educational differences in parental support for children's schooling in rural China / Peggy A. Kong -- Parental involvement in rural Anhui : coping with the burden of Guanxi / Ailei Xie -- "Two basics" in a rural Muslim area of Northwest China / Hong Yanbi -- Exceptions to the rule : rural and nomadic Tibetans gaining access to dislocated elite inland boarding schools / Gerard A. Postiglione and Xiaoliang Li -- Universalization of preschool education in rural Shanxi / Tanja Sargent, Shudan Hao, Xiao Yang, and Lin Li -- Correlates and implications of grade retention in rural Northwest China / Li-Chung Hu and Emily Hannum -- Schools as de facto childcare centers : adolescents' lives and educational paths in rural China / Shu Hu -- Access and equity for rural migrants in Shanghai / Lisa Yiu -- Migrant education : family strategies and public policies / Bill Tsang |
| Abstract | "The People's Republic of China in the first decade of the 21st century experienced dramatic growth and expansion that altered the educational environment of children. Rapid economic development increased prosperity and lifted more Chinese out of poverty and expanded educational access for their children. As China's middle class swelled and an urban elite emerged and inequality grew. Many targeted policies focused on poverty alleviation were enacted to bridge the growing inequalities. Rural families experienced food insecurity, illness, hardships of family separation, migrant life on the margins of the cities, and a resource gap between the home conditions of rural children, compared with their urban counterparts. This book highlights the complexity in extending educational opportunities to rural children-including migrant and ethnic minority children. Each chapter offers field-based research in seven provincial level entities, including Anhui, Beijing, Gansu, Hubei, Shanghai, Shanxi, and Tibet. The book illustrates the diverse strategies of poor rural and minority children and their families to secure access to quality basic education and the challenges of policy initiatives designed to do the same in this momentous period in China. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of rural educational policy and practice in china and worldwide"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020031497 |
| ISBN | 9781138681408 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |