An Emotional Journey: Pursuing a Bachelor's Degree for Rural Students in Four Elite Universities in Shanghai, PRC

Autor/inn/en	Liao, Qing; Wong, Yi-Lee
Titel	An Emotional Journey: Pursuing a Bachelor's Degree for Rural Students in Four Elite Universities in Shanghai, PRC
Quelle	In: Cambridge Journal of Education, 49 (2019) 6, S.711-725 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Liao, Qing) ORCID (Wong, Yi-Lee)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-764X
DOI	10.1080/0305764X.2019.1592114
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Selective Admission; Universities; Student Characteristics; Rural Urban Differences; Psychological Patterns; Labeling (of Persons); Poverty Areas; Rural Areas; Undergraduate Students; Student Experience; Disadvantaged; Social Mobility; Anxiety; Student School Relationship; Stress Variables; China (Shanghai) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Bildungsselektion; University; Universität; Stadt-Land-Beziehung; Labeling-Ansatz; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Studienerfahrung; Soziale Mobilität; Angst; Schüler-Lehrer-Beziehung
Abstract	In the People's Republic of China (PRC), educational expansion together with the promotion of market competition is taken as a measure of addressing a structural rural--urban divide in educational inequality. In following the emotional journeys of pursuing a bachelor's degree for 32 rural students in four elite universities in Shanghai, this paper explores an emotive impact of such a measure on rural students. Despite feeling pride at getting into university, many respondents were ashamed because of their perceived academic and social inadequacies vis-à-vis their urban classmates. The stigmatisation of the rural accentuated their feelings of shame and even made many respondents not feel confident about seeking a career in a city. An individualistic approach framed in a self-reliance discourse, even in a socialist society, to address structural educational inequality, is doomed to fail to confront an unequal opportunity structure, but offloads the cost of change, including the emotional cost, to individual students. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01