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Article: Micro-neoliberalism in China: Public-Private Interactions at the Confluence of Mainstream and Shadow Education
Title | Micro-neoliberalism in China: Public-Private Interactions at the Confluence of Mainstream and Shadow Education |
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Authors | |
Keywords | China micro-neoliberalism private supplementary tutoring shadow education Shanghai |
Issue Date | 2017 |
Publisher | Routledge. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/02680939.asp |
Citation | Journal of Education Policy, 2017, v. 32 n. 1, p. 63-81 How to Cite? |
Abstract | With its shift to a market economy gathering speed from the 1990s, the Chinese government embarked on an agenda that brought neoliberal forces into almost all sectors including education. The policies underpinned China’s spectacular economic growth, but in education have had consequences that arguably are problematic. Drawing on a mixed-methods study in Shanghai, this paper examines ‘micro-neoliberalism’ in China’s education system, i.e. privatization and marketization at the individual, family and institutional levels, with focus on blurring boundaries between public schooling and private supplementary tutoring. Some dimensions of these processes resulted from deliberate macro-level policies to decentralize control of schooling, raise performance, and empower private education. Other dimensions arose from the market behavior of individuals, families and institutions that countered government efforts to steer parental choice of schools and to reduce disparities between schools. Education policies are enacted not only in schools but also in the shadow sector which is commonly overlooked. This paper focuses on Shanghai but has implications for other parts of China; and since shadow education is expanding as a global phenomenon, it also has relevance to many other countries. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/229555 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.8 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.630 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Zhang, W | - |
dc.contributor.author | Bray, TM | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-08-23T14:11:51Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2016-08-23T14:11:51Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of Education Policy, 2017, v. 32 n. 1, p. 63-81 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0268-0939 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/229555 | - |
dc.description.abstract | With its shift to a market economy gathering speed from the 1990s, the Chinese government embarked on an agenda that brought neoliberal forces into almost all sectors including education. The policies underpinned China’s spectacular economic growth, but in education have had consequences that arguably are problematic. Drawing on a mixed-methods study in Shanghai, this paper examines ‘micro-neoliberalism’ in China’s education system, i.e. privatization and marketization at the individual, family and institutional levels, with focus on blurring boundaries between public schooling and private supplementary tutoring. Some dimensions of these processes resulted from deliberate macro-level policies to decentralize control of schooling, raise performance, and empower private education. Other dimensions arose from the market behavior of individuals, families and institutions that countered government efforts to steer parental choice of schools and to reduce disparities between schools. Education policies are enacted not only in schools but also in the shadow sector which is commonly overlooked. This paper focuses on Shanghai but has implications for other parts of China; and since shadow education is expanding as a global phenomenon, it also has relevance to many other countries. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Routledge. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/02680939.asp | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Education Policy | - |
dc.rights | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Journal of Education Policy on 10 Aug 2016, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02680939.2016.1219769 | - |
dc.subject | China | - |
dc.subject | micro-neoliberalism | - |
dc.subject | private supplementary tutoring | - |
dc.subject | shadow education | - |
dc.subject | Shanghai | - |
dc.title | Micro-neoliberalism in China: Public-Private Interactions at the Confluence of Mainstream and Shadow Education | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Zhang, W: weizh@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | Bray, TM: mbray@hkucc.hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Bray, TM=rp00888 | - |
dc.description.nature | postprint | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/02680939.2016.1219769 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84981249199 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 261073 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 32 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 1 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 63 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 81 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000389032200005 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0268-0939 | - |