Recontextualising and Recontesting Bourdieu in Chinese Education

ISBN-13: 9781032355306 / Twarda / 2023 / 224 str.

Opis

This edited collection has a focus on China, applying Bourdieu’s analysis of practice as Chinese education gains relevance and attention around the globe.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Bourdieu and Chinese education: Recontextualising and recontesting sociological traditions Part 1: On class and habitus 2. Social reproduction or social experiment? Understanding the idiosyncrasy and hybridity of habitus in Chinese education 3. Parental engagement in children’s transition to school: A Bourdieusian analysis of a Chinese sample in Beijing 4. The relevance and dissonances of ‘class’ in China: An imaginative dialogue with Bourdieu and Bourdieusian studies Part 2: On mobility and migration 5. Raising children for future mobilities: A Bourdieusian case study of Shanghai-Chinese middle-class parental strategies 6. A comparative analysis of Teach for China and the Special Post Teacher Plan: Cross-field capital, orchestrated habitus, and transverse movements 7. ‘Localised’ field strategies and diversities in educational policy enactment: Towards multi-level/directional cross-field analysis Part 3: On language and postmonolingual theorising 8. Family language policies in China: A Bourdieusian re-framing and review of research 9. Postmonolingual curriculum theorising, crisis communications and language(s) education: Learning from Bourdieu’s method of thinking Conclusion 10. Researching Chinese education from within and afar: Enacting Bourdieu’s ‘practical reflexivity’

O autorze

Guanglun Michael Mu is Associate Professor and Enterprise Fellow at the University of South Australia. His expertise includes sociology of resilience and relational quantitative methodology. He is the chief editor of the Routledge Book Series ‘Bourdieu and Education of Asia Pacific’, and the co-chair of the AERA’s SIG ‘Bourdieu in Educational Research’.

Karen Dooley is a Professor in the School of Teacher Education and Leadership (STEL) in the Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice (CIESJ) at Queensland University of Technology.