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Class Consciousness Construction of Rural Migrant Children in China: Seeking the Alternative Way Out in Meritocratic Schooling book cover

1st Edition

Class Consciousness Construction of Rural Migrant Children in China Seeking the Alternative Way Out in Meritocratic Schooling

By Jiaxin Chen Copyright 2023
156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge
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The monograph examines the constructive process of class consciousness among rural migrant children in China and how their perceptions of social reality are shaped by their interactions within family, community, and school contexts. Using evidence from qualitative investigations conducted in two Beijing primary schools, one public school and one private migrant school, the author explores the... Read more

1: Introduction  2: Living with Educational Inequalities in Childhood  3: The Worker-Boss-Divide: Society in Rural Migrant Children’s Eyes  4: Compliance or Resistance: Rural Migrant Children’s Seeking Their Alternative Way Out  5: The Meritocratic Schooling Process in Urban China  6: Possibilities and Challenges of Fostering Critical Consciousness in the Schooling Process  7: Revisiting Studies of Rural Migrant Children from the Class Perspective  8: From Awareness to Critical Consciousness: What is the Missing Link?

Biography

Jiaxin Chen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. Her research focuses on inequality and social justice issues, particularly on educational inequalities and social mobility, rural–urban migration, and class reproduction.

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