Governing Educational Desire : Culture, Politics, and Schooling in China
Andrew B. Kipnis
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Chicago : : University of Chicago Press, , 2011.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (218 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Educational Desire in Local Context; 3. Encompassing Educational Desire: National Policy inZouping County; 4. Historicizing Educational Desire: Governing in the EastAsian Tradition; 5. The Universal in the Local: Globalized and GlobalizingAspects of Educational Desire; 6. Conclusion; Notes; References; Index. - Parents in China greatly value higher education for their children, but the intensity and effects of their desire to achieve this goal have largely gone unexamined-until now. Governing Educational Desire explores the cultural, political, and economic origins of Chinese desire for a college education as well as its vast consequences, which include household and national economic priorities, birthrates, ethnic relations, and patterns of governance.Where does this desire come from? Andrew B. Kipnis approaches this question in four different ways. First, he investigate
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| ISBN | 0226437531. - 0226437558. - 9780226437538. - 9780226437552
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