Educating the Children of Migrant Workers in Beijing: Migration, education, and policy in urban China
Author:   Myra Pong (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138580169


Pages:   220
Publication Date:   14 March 2018
Format:   Paperback
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Educating the Children of Migrant Workers in Beijing: Migration, education, and policy in urban China


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Author:   Myra Pong (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.410kg
ISBN:  

9781138580169


ISBN 10:   1138580163
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   14 March 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"1. Introduction 2. Migrant children’s education in China’s cities and the emergence of a new policy area 3. The growth and development of migrant schools in Beijing 4. ""Under the same blue sky""? Central and Beijing municipal policies on migrant children's education 5. Decentralization and migrant children’s education in Beijing: the significance of district policy approaches 6. The survival and development of migrant schools in Beijing: impacts of the municipal and district policy approaches 7. The survival and development of migrant schools in Beijing: the role of civil society 8. Implications for the future"

Reviews

"""This book provides a detailed analysis of how policy (in this case the education of migrant children) is formulated and then implemented in China. This is its unique contribution – the in depth study is very exhaustive and rewarding in terms of the insights that emerge."" -- Adjunct Associate Professor Robyn Iredale, Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, Australian National University, Canberra"


""This book provides a detailed analysis of how policy (in this case the education of migrant children) is formulated and then implemented in China. This is its unique contribution – the in depth study is very exhaustive and rewarding in terms of the insights that emerge."" -- Adjunct Associate Professor Robyn Iredale, Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, Australian National University, Canberra


This book provides a detailed analysis of how policy (in this case the education of migrant children) is formulated and then implemented in China. This is its unique contribution - the in depth study is very exhaustive and rewarding in terms of the insights that emerge. -- Adjunct Associate Professor Robyn Iredale, Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, Australian National University, Canberra


Author Information

Myra Pong earned her PhD from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Hong Kong in 2014–15. She has Bachelors and Masters degrees in international relations and affairs from Brown University, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Peking University.

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