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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792065403321

Autore

Wang Yuxiang

Titolo

Language, culture and identity among minority students in China : the case of the Hui / / Yuxiang Wang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-135-06837-2

0-203-37538-6

1-299-28017-X

1-135-06838-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 p.)

Collana

Routledge series on schools and schooling in Asia ; ; 3

Disciplina

370.1170951

Soggetti

Hui (Chinese people) - Education

Minority students - China - Ningxia Huizu Zizhiqu - Social conditions

Hui (Chinese people) - Group identity

Multicultural education - China - Ningxia Huizu Zizhiqu

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 -- Historical context and the Hui in China -- Minority policy and practice in China -- Curricular context -- Theoretical perspectives -- Community, school, and home -- Teacher's perspective: "I treat them as Han students? -- Students' perspective: "we are the same" -- Parents' perspective: "we want them to study the required curriculum as Han students do" -- Conclusion: where shall we go from here?.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores Hui (one of the Muslim minority groups in China) students' lived experiences in an elementary school in central P. R. China from the perspectives of philosophical foundations of education and the sociology of education, the impact of their experiences on their identity construction, and what schooling means to Hui students. The book describes a vivid picture of how the Hui construct their own identities in the public school setting, and how the state curricula, teachers, and parents play roles in student identity construction. The objectives of the book are to discover fa