Urban and Rural Students' Access to Elite Chinese Universities
Contextualising Bourdieu in China
- 180 pages
- English
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Urban and Rural Students' Access to Elite Chinese Universities
Contextualising Bourdieu in China
About this book
Studies have shown the disparities between urban and rural students accessing elite universities in China, a phenomenon which Xu explores in this groundbreaking book.
She argues that such disparities follow a Bourdieusian capital approach showing how urban parents increased capital benefits the advancement of their children's education. This book qualitatively explores urban and rural students' life stories prior to their elite university entry through interviews with both parents and students. It seeks a 'reflective reappropriation' of Bourdieu's notions in understanding Chinese urban and rural students' academic success. In addition to the implications for Chinese domestic and international scholars' understanding of the mediating role of rurality, higher education access, and Chinese policy makers' ongoing initiatives on the hukou reform, this book promotes the global reflections on the development and promotion of national analytical concepts in understanding contextualised educational issues to advance knowledge co-production.
This engaging text will be of interest to students and researchers across the fields of global higher education and sociology of education in East Asia, as well as policymakers working towards increased participation, equity and social justice in higher education worldwide.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Acknowledgment
- Introduction
- 1 Setting the scene of this book
- 2 Research design of this book
- 3 Urban and rural educational disparities in China
- 4 Bourdieu’s capital approach and its challenges in a Chinese urban-rural educational context
- 5 The stories of two trajectories, one destination
- 6 Understanding urban and rural students’ access to Chinese elite universities
- 7 Conclusion
- Index