1st Edition

Equity Issues in Chinese Higher Education Policy A Case Study of the Enrolment Expansion Policy

By Hongzhi Zhang Copyright 2024
214 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Investigating the highly influential enrolment expansion policy in Chinese higher education, this book outlines how educational equity issues were understood and addressed in the formulation and implementation of the policy, and its impacts on the socio-economic fabric of China in the past decades. Drawing on Chinese policy documents and interviews with government and university... Read more

1. Framing equity issues in Chinese higher education  2. Research trajectory of Chinese education policy and educational equity  3. Policy and policy analysis  4. Context of influence (I)  5. Context of influence (II)  6. Context of policy text production  7. Context of practice  8. Main arguments and contributions of knowledge   

Biography

Hongzhi Zhang is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia. His main research interests are educational equity, education policy, higher education, Asia study, and curriculum and pedagogy. Hongzhi is a co-editor of Asia as Method in Education Studies: A Defiant Research Imagination (Routledge, 2015). He has established "Asia as method" as a researchable concept and contributed influential theoretical and empirical developments in research about "Asia as method" in educational studies, particularly how it can be developed in multicultural, post-colonial Asian countries and for it to be culturally expansive in Western education systems as an ideal and as a practice across cultures.