Overview
- Offers a new perspective on the student placement phenomenon in the Chinese context, enriching the global debate on school choice
- Clarifies the power relationships behind the interactions among government, schools and families in public education in urban China
- Highlights on-going public education reforms intended to promote equality, quality and balance in urban China in the development stage of the post-2015
Part of the book series: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects (EDAP, volume 43)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explores and interprets discourses and practices in school admissions to public lower secondary education in urban China by utilizing a discourse analysis approach and a case study method. It identifies continuities and changes in discourses shaped by diverse forces in public lower secondary school admissions in the context of China’s social transformation from a profit-driven society to a more equitable society, and elucidates the power relationships among stakeholders in public school admissions by analysing their interplay in the process. More importantly, it exposes how current socio-economic, institutional and educational systems are shaping the engagement of stakeholders in the public school admissions process. It also presents some on-going projects intended to yield new policies and practices for more equitable public secondary education in China in the development stage of the post-2015.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
His research areas include sociology of education, international and comparative education, and education policy studies. He began his studies on education in 2007, and since then has accumulated considerable experience in researching educational development in China, East, and South-East Asia. His current research project examines education reform to promote resource sharing and school-to-school collaboration in urban China. In the past five years, Dr. Liu has published in leading international journals and chapters of book series. His latest article, titled “Constructing resource sharing collaboration for quality public education in urban China: Case study of school alliance in Beijing” will be published by The International Journal of Educational Development in March 2018.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Inequality in Public School Admission in Urban China
Book Subtitle: Discourses, Practices and New Solutions
Authors: Jing Liu
Series Title: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8718-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-8717-2Published: 15 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4222-6Published: 29 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-8718-9Published: 02 May 2018
Series ISSN: 1573-5397
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9791
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 221
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: International and Comparative Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education