Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects: Discourses, Practices and New Solutions

Liu, Jing

This book explores and interprets discourses and practices in school admissions to public lower secondary education in urban China by utilizing a discourse analysis approach and a case study method. It identifies continuities and changes in discourses shaped by diverse forces in public lower secondary school admissions in the context of China’s social transformation from a profit-driven society to a more equitable society, and elucidates the power relationships among stakeholders in public school admissions by analysing their interplay in the process. More importantly, it exposes how current socio-economic, institutional and educational systems are shaping the engagement of stakeholders in the public school admissions process. It also presents some on-going projects intended to yield new policies and practices for more equitable public secondary education in China  in the development stage of the post-2015.

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Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2018-05-15

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9789811087172

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-8718-9

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 221