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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460669403321

Autore

Hansen Mette Halskov

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle, Washington ; ; London, England : , : University of Washington Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-295-80543-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Disciplina

370.9173/40951

Soggetti

Rural youth - Education - China - History - 21st century

Education, Rural - China

Educational change - China - History - 21st century

Education and state - China - History - 21st century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.