Migrant Children in State/Quasi-State Schools in Urban China: From Access to Quality?

ISBN-13: 9781032114354 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 166 str.

Hui Yu

Opis

Highlighting the changing landscape of Chinese urban state schools under the pressure of recruiting a tremendous number of migrant children, this book examines the quality of state educational provisions from demographic, institutional, familial and cultural angles.

Spis treści

1 Changing landscape of migration and schooling in China  2 Conceptualising quality of education in a migration context  3 Becoming ‘migrant majority’ state school  4 The birth of an ‘interim quasi-state school system’  5 Being quasi-state schools: navigating through identity dilemma  6 ‘Incompetent’ parents and children’s academic performance  7 Re-structuring habitus and social inclusion in school  8 Pathways to the ‘new urban working-class’ and possibilities of change

O autorze

Hui Yu is Associate Professor in the School of Education at South China Normal University, China. Dr Yu is an adjunt research fellow at SCNU Centre for Basic Education Governance and Innovation, and at MOE-SCNU Institute for Educational Law. His research interest is sociology of education with a focus on policy processes and social class equalities in the context of rural-to-urban migration in China.