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
Summary
"In twenty-first-century China, socialist educational traditions have given way to practices that increasingly emphasize the individual. This volume investigates that trend, drawing on fieldwork in a rural high school in Zhejiang where students, teachers, and officials of different generations, genders, and social backgrounds form what is essentially a miniature version of Chinese society. Hansen paints a complex picture of the emerging "neo-socialist" educational system and shows how individualization of students both challenges and reinforces state control of society"--Jacket
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-218) and index
