A Matter of Money? Policy Analysis of Rural Boarding Schools in China

Autor/in	Zhao, Zhenzhou
Titel	A Matter of Money? Policy Analysis of Rural Boarding Schools in China
Quelle	In: Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 6 (2011) 3, S.237-249 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1746-1979
DOI	10.1177/1746197911417415
Schlagwörter	Boarding Schools; Childhood Interests; Policy Analysis; Foreign Countries; Local Government; Educational Policy; Rural Schools; Urban Schools; Civil Rights; Educational Quality; Equal Education; Role; Social Change; Cost Effectiveness; School Choice; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Boarding school; Internat; Politikfeldanalyse; Ausland; Gemeindeverwaltung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen; Urban area; Urban areas; Stadtregion; Stadt; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Rollen; Sozialer Wandel; Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse; Kosten-Nutzen-Denken; Choice of school; Schulwahl
Abstract	The Chinese government has shifted the pattern of rural schooling over the past decade, replacing village schools with urban boarding schools. The stated goal is to improve school quality, while deploying resources more effectively. However, the new boarding schools fail to provide a safe, healthy environment or protect and enable students' human rights. This article explores questions of how and why a boarding school policy supposedly intended to narrow the urban-rural educational gap has, in fact, achieved the opposite result, extending social injustice. Adopting a public choice perspective, the article analyses the roles of different stakeholders in the policy arena, including the policy initiator (the central government), the policy implementer (the local government) and policy consumers (children and society). The findings suggest that policy consumers are passive participants in interactions between various governmental bodies and society. Children's interests are ignored and their rights overlooked in educational policy formulation and enactment. (Contains 1 table and 3 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10