1st Edition
Recontextualising and Recontesting Bourdieu in Chinese Education Habitus, Mobility and Language
Introduction
1. Bourdieu and Chinese education: Recontextualising and recontesting sociological traditions
Guanglun Michael Mu
Part 1: On class and habitus
2. Social reproduction or social experiment? Understanding the idiosyncrasy and hybridity of habitus in Chinese education
Jinting Wu
3. Parental engagement in children’s transition to school: A Bourdieusian analysis of a Chinese sample in Beijing
Liwei Liu, Guanglun Michael Mu, Lyndal O’Gorman and Julie Dillon-Wallace
4. The relevance and dissonances of ‘class’ in China: An imaginative dialogue with Bourdieu and Bourdieusian studies
Jin Jin
Part 2: On mobility and migration
5. Raising children for future mobilities: A Bourdieusian case study of Shanghai-Chinese middle-class parental strategies
Hannah Soong
6. A comparative analysis of Teach for China and the Special Post Teacher Plan: Cross-field capital, orchestrated habitus, and transverse movements
Guanglun Michael Mu, Melody Yue Yin and Denghui Liu
7. ‘Localised’ field strategies and diversities in educational policy enactment: Towards multi-level/directional cross-field analysis
Hui Yu
Part 3: On language and postmonolingual theorising
8. Family language policies in China: A Bourdieusian re-framing and review of research
Danwei Gao, Karen Dooley and Radha Iyer
9. Postmonolingual curriculum theorising, crisis communications and language(s) education: Learning from Bourdieu’s method of thinking
Michael Singh (מיכאל ਸਿੰਘ) and Xiǎolí Lǐ (李晓黎)
Conclusion
10. Researching Chinese education from within and afar: Enacting Bourdieu’s ‘practical reflexivity’
Guanglun Michael Mu and Karen Dooley
Biography
Guanglun Michael Mu is Associate Professor and Enterprise Fellow at the University of South Australia. His expertise includes sociology of resilience and relational quantitative methodology. He is the chief editor of the Routledge Book Series ‘Bourdieu and Education of Asia Pacific’, and the co-chair of the AERA’s SIG ‘Bourdieu in Educational Research’.
Karen Dooley is a Professor in the School of Teacher Education and Leadership (STEL) in the Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice (CIESJ) at Queensland University of Technology.
