1st Edition
Home Schooling in China Culture, Religion, Politics, and Gender
Chapter 1. Setting the scene
Chapter 2. Choices with market: being marginalised in marketisation of education
Chapter 3. Social class and choice: an inside perspective on families vs schools in China
Chapter 4. Christian home education in China
Chapter 5. Confucian home education in China
Chapter 6. Cultural order and parents’ motivations for practising home education in China
Chapter 7. Family-cultured habitus and its influences on the development of home education in China
Chapter 8. Gendered habitus in home education in China
Chapter 9. Gender, technology, and home-schooling development in China
Chapter 10. Understanding social movement: liberal and conservative agendas in home education in China
Chapter 11. Home education and law in China
Chapter 12. Understanding conservative home-schooling movements: global contexts and international trends
Chapter 13. Contributions and conclusions
Biography
Xiaoming Sheng has a PhD in Sociology of Education from the University of Cambridge, UK. She is interested in developing theorisations of social class and how it is mediated by gender. Her research mainly focuses on higher education choice, home education, parental involvement, social stratification, gender, and social inequality.
