Can I read A School in Ren Village : A Historical-Ethnographical Study of China's Educational Changes on EtoBox?

A School in Ren Village : A Historical-Ethnographical Study of China's Educational Changes by Hongchang Si; Zhenjun Yao is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is A School in Ren Village : A Historical-Ethnographical Study of China's Educational Changes about?

"By adopting oral history and fieldwork methods and exploring historical data, this book chronologically depicts the development of the schools and education in a village in North China over a century. The book reveals how education and school life in the rural village are being impacted not only by its own history and traditions, but also by external powers; more specifically, the development of rural schools is influenced by the tensions between Chinese and Western culture, between history and reality, between countryside and cities, and between national and local powers. In essence, villagers' educational experience is actually a battlefield for school education and local tradition - the children's lives are dominated by school education, leaving local traditions few opportunities to exert an influence. The study also discusses how school education and local traditions have influenced villagers' social mobility, a topic that has rarely been studied in previous literature. In summary, rural schools have been developing within an interactive network composed of various actors. With the fading of national power since the 1980s, local rural actors have enjoyed a much more liberal so

Who reads A School in Ren Village : A Historical-Ethnographical Study of China's Educational Changes?

Author

Hongchang Si; Zhenjun Yao

Publisher

Springer Singapore, Singapore

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9789811072239

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Philosophy, Education