Educating the Chinese individual : life in a rural boarding school / Mette Halskov Hansen.

Author
Hansen, Mette Halskov [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Seattle, WA ; London : University of Washington Press, 2015.
Description
ix, 222 pages ; 25 cm

Details

Subject(s)
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-218) and index.
Contents
  • Introduction: Chinese education and processes of individualization
  • Discipline and agency: quests for individual space
  • Text and truth: visions of the learned person and good citizen
  • Hierarchy and democracy: controlled rise of the individual
  • Motivation and examination: the making and breaking of the individual
  • Dreams and dedications: teachers' views and the construction of a generation gap
  • Conclusion: authoritarian individualization.
ISBN
  • 9780295994086 ((hardcover : alk. paper))
  • 0295994088 ((hardcover : alk. paper))
  • 9780295994093 ((pbk. : alk. paper))
  • 0295994096 ((pbk. : alk. paper))
LCCN
2014007527
OCLC
875520741
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