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Education and Social Change in China: Inequality in a Market Economy Inequality in a Market Economy
By Gerard A. Postiglione
Copyright 2006
224 Pages
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Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Market reform, financial decentralization, and economic globalization have greatly accentuated China's social and regional inequalities. Education is expected to address these inequalities in a context of rapid social change, including the rise of an urban middle class, changed status of women, resurgence of ethnic identities, growing rural to urban migration, and lingering poverty in remote... Read more
Foreword; 1. Schooling and Inequality in China, Gerard A. Postiglione; 2. Challenging the Gendered Dimensions of Schooling: The State, NGOs, and Transnational Alliances, Heidi Ross; Rural Northwest; 3. Poverty, Health, and Schooling in Rural China, Shengchao Yu and Emily Hannum; 4. Tibetan Girls' Education: Challenging Prevailing Theory, Vilma Seeberg; Rural Southwest; 5. Rural Classroom Teaching and Non-farm Jobs in Yunnan, Jin Xiao; 6. Education in Rural Tibet: Development, Problems, and Adaptations, Gerard Postiglione, Ben Jiao, and Sonam Gyatso; Urban Divisions: Migrants and the Middle Class; 7. The Integration of Migrant Children in Beijing Schools, Julia Kwong; 8. Educational Stratification and the New Middle Class, Jing Lin; List of Contributors; Index.
Biography
Postiglione, Gerard A.
