A Bourdieusian Analysis of Chinese Transnational Higher Education Policy Enactment
Policy Habitus
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A Bourdieusian Analysis of Chinese Transnational Higher Education Policy Enactment
Policy Habitus
About this book
This book provides an empirical examination of the meso-level policy enactment of transnational higher education in the context of China.
China's national policies have not been mechanically implemented at the sub-national level: the strategic enactment is always accompanied by great creativity, innovation, and/or even resistance. From the prism of Bourdieu's relational sociology, this study moves away from the traditional centralization-decentralization model, or policy experiment hypothesis, to examine how Chinese local officials' practices are simultaneously full of "invention and improvisation" and confined "within the constraints and limits initially set on its inventions". By so doing, the book extends the application of Bourdieu's thinking tools to the arena of critical policy analysis through the establishment of the internal structure to separate habitus and the practice it generated, thereby refuting any determinism or objectivism criticism to Bourdieu's most contested concept habitus.
This book will be of great interest to Bourdieusian scholars with particular interests in higher education and sociologists of education more broadly.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- 1 Meso-Level Policy Enactment at a Glance: From Foucault to Bourdieu
- 2 Globalization, Internationalization, and the Rise of Transnational Higher Education in the World and China
- 3 Policy Habitus in Authoritarian Country: The Meso-Level Policy Enactment
- 4 The Geographical Distribution of SFCUs in China: Selective Local Enactment of National Policies
- 5 “Regulated but not Obedient to Rules”: Local Creativity and Innovation in Policy Enactment
- 6 Bourdieusian Critical Policy Analysis: Rethinking the Concept of Habitus
- Index