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For more than 40 years, researchers have explored the utility of Bourdieu’s sociology for settings beyond the French and Algerian contexts of its origin. This edited collection has a focus on China, applying Bourdieu’s analysis of practice as Chinese education gains relevance and attention around the globe. Grounded in empirical research, Recontextualising and Recontesting Bourdieu in Chinese Education advances Bourdieu’s analysis of practice beyond national scales while producing new knowledge about the generation of habitus, mobilities, and languages in relation to Chinese education. Locating Chinese education within national and transnational contexts, this collection grapples with the structural invariances and inequivalences between Chinese education and society on the one hand, and social spaces in other parts of the world on the other hand. Through chapters that examine social mobility in the context of cross-border movement and delve into questions of language and power, this book recontests and problematises the use of Bourdieu’s sociology to theorise social classification and differentiation in China. This book is essential reading for Chinese educational researchers and practitioners, Bourdieusian scholars with particular interests in education, and sociologists of education broadly.

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Author:   Guanglun Michael Mu (University of South Australia) ,  Karen Dooley (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032355306

ISBN 10:   1032355301
Pages:   204
Publication Date:   25 August 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Bourdieu and Chinese education: Recontextualising and recontesting sociological traditions Part 1: On class and habitus 2. Social reproduction or social experiment? Understanding the idiosyncrasy and hybridity of habitus in Chinese education 3. Parental engagement in children’s transition to school: A Bourdieusian analysis of a Chinese sample in Beijing 4. The relevance and dissonances of ‘class’ in China: An imaginative dialogue with Bourdieu and Bourdieusian studies Part 2: On mobility and migration 5. Raising children for future mobilities: A Bourdieusian case study of Shanghai-Chinese middle-class parental strategies 6. A comparative analysis of Teach for China and the Special Post Teacher Plan: Cross-field capital, orchestrated habitus, and transverse movements 7. ‘Localised’ field strategies and diversities in educational policy enactment: Towards multi-level/directional cross-field analysis Part 3: On language and postmonolingual theorising 8. Family language policies in China: A Bourdieusian re-framing and review of research 9. Postmonolingual curriculum theorising, crisis communications and language(s) education: Learning from Bourdieu’s method of thinking Conclusion 10. Researching Chinese education from within and afar: Enacting Bourdieu’s ‘practical reflexivity’

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Guanglun Michael Mu is Associate Professor and Enterprise Fellow at the University of South Australia. His expertise includes sociology of resilience and relational quantitative methodology. He is the chief editor of the Routledge Book Series ‘Bourdieu and Education of Asia Pacific’, and the co-chair of the AERA’s SIG ‘Bourdieu in Educational Research’. Karen Dooley is a Professor in the School of Teacher Education and Leadership (STEL) in the Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice (CIESJ) at Queensland University of Technology.

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