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Building Resilience of Floating Children and Left-Behind Children in China: Power, Politics, Participation, and Education book cover

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Building Resilience of Floating Children and Left-Behind Children in China Power, Politics, Participation, and Education

By Guanglun Michael Mu Copyright 2018
236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge
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The past two decades have seen exponential growth of urbanisation and migration in China. Emerging from this growth is a population of floating and left-behind children which is estimated to be approaching 100 million. Due to their increasing risks of undesirable educational and social, as well as health and psychological, outcomes, there is a great urgency to help floating children and... Read more

1. Floating children and left-behind children in a migration context: Policy, power, and participation

2. Conceptualising resilience: Foundational work and paradigmatic shift

3. Measuring resilience: Methodological conundrum and measurement invariance

4. Resilience as a classed socialisation: An intergenerational project

5. School-based approach to resilience: The magic of physical activity

6. Community-based approach to resilience: Peer relations and significant others

7. Transforming vulnerabilities into opportunities: An ecological model

8. Building resilience of floating children and left-behind children: Empirical lessons and sociological implications

Biography

Guanglun Michael Mu is Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow in the School of Teacher Education and Leadership at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. His research interests include sociology of education, quantitative research, child and youth resilience, as well as the learning and socialisation of Chinese diaspora.

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