School Choice in China: A Different Tale?

ISBN-13: 9781138580114 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 168 str.

Wu Xiaoxin

Opis

This book highlights how parents in China exploit their cultural, economic and social capital for their children's admission into choice schools, and reveals how schools and local governments cash in on the school choice fever for economic returns.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. School Choice in the Global and Chinese Context  2. Key School System  3. Creation of the School Choice Market  4. Positional Competition for Cultural Capital  5. Exploitation of Social Capital  6. Economics of School Choice  7. Class Reproduction through Parental Choice  Conclusion

O autorze

Wu Xiaoxin is Professor at the English Department, Foreign Languages College, Guangxi University, China.