Winner of the 2017 American Educational Research Association’s Division B Outstanding Book Recognition Award
Winner of the 2017 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award
In today’s China, education is translated into both acute social desires and profound disenchantment. Shanghai’s stellar performance in the recent Program for International Student Assessment paints a celebratory image of educational success yet tells only a partial story. For many in rural China who are schooled yet prepared only for factory sweatshops, education remains an elusive ideal and offers a hollowed promise of social mobility.
Fabricating an Educational Miracle laces together complex accounts of how compulsory education produces dilemmas and possibilities in village schools in Southwest China. Drawing from interviews, participant observations, oral history, and archival research in a Miao and a Dong village-town in Qiandongnan Prefecture, Guizhou Province, this book examines the manifold and contradictory agendas that have captured rural ethnic schooling at a crossroads.
Tabella dei contenuti
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Rural Ethnic as Political Projects: Development’s Storied Edges
2. The Politics of Compulsory Education: Universal Ideals and Local Discontent
3. New Bottles, Old Wine: Governing “Quality” and the New Curriculum Reform
4. The Emperor’s New Clothes: Unlocking Educational Audit Culture in Qiandongnan
5. Tourism as Spatial Pedagogy and New Rural Literacy
6. The Way Out (注路): Life after the School Walls Crumble
Conclusion
Along the Development Grains: Disenchantment of Education Revisited
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Circa l’autore
Jinting Wu is Assistant Professor of Education Policy at the University of Macau.
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