Parental Choice of School, Class Strategies, and Educational Inequality: An Essay Review of "School Choice in China--A Different Tale?" (X. Wu, New York, NY: Routledge, 2014, 168 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-81769-1)

Autor/inn/en	Liu, Shuning; Apple, Michael W.
Titel	Parental Choice of School, Class Strategies, and Educational Inequality: An Essay Review of "School Choice in China--A Different Tale?" (X. Wu, New York, NY: Routledge, 2014, 168 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-81769-1)
Quelle	In: Educational Policy, 30 (2016) 6, S.940-955 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0895-9048
DOI	10.1177/0895904816653633
Schlagwörter	School Choice; Educational Strategies; Equal Education; Political Influences; Economic Factors; Cultural Influences; Social Influences; Context Effect; Educational Policy; Neoliberalism; Educational Change; Middle Class; Educational History; Foreign Countries; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Choice of school; Schulwahl; Lehrstrategie; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Ökonomischer Faktor; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Sozialer Einfluss; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Bildungsreform; Mittelschicht; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Ausland
Abstract	Given the increasingly global nature of marketized school choice policies, this makes it even more crucial to investigate how the multiple scales, forms, and emphases of school choice in different countries are influenced by particular political, economic, and cultural conditions. While much of the critical research on school choice policies has focused on examining the complex processes of school choice in the education market in Western contexts, this essay review of "School Choice in China" applies Bourdieu's concepts of capital and conversion strategies to demonstrate the practices of market-based parental choice in China.The essay highlights the importance of the recontextualization of school choice within the Chinese historical, political, economic, and social landscape in order to better understand how choice policy is interpreted differently in the Chinese context. Such historical and social specificities include, but are not limited to, the Chinese government's insufficient investment in education, the existing key school system, and significant social class changes in contemporary China. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01