Implementation of Inclusive Education in Beijing (eBook)

Exorcizing the Haunting Specter of Meritocracy

Kai Yu (Autor)

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2014
166 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-4699-6 (ISBN)

Infos

The Chinese educational experience illustrates a vacillation between a socialist egalitarian belief and a liberal cost-effective development model. The apex of China’s education system has become a privileged meritocracy. By studying battles of ideologies among policy makers and implementers, Kai Yu’s The Implementation of Inclusive Education in Beijing develops effective strategies for change in schools where institutional values are contested. This book will help policy researchers decipher the enigma of policy implementation in a centralized system like China.

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The education implementation process in China remains uncharted by researchers. The Implementation of Inclusive Education in Beijing: Exorcizing the Haunting Specter of Meritocracy puts forth a general theory on China's education programs, encompassing policy processes, actions, and interactions and grounded on the views of street-level bureaucrats in China. Kai Yu investigates these processes and presents teachers' reflections on the change process, as well as implementation stories from four Beijing schools. He reports on their attitudes, their beliefs, and their pedagogical practices for implementing the innovative education program. Yu argues that the imperatives of meritocratic ideology have undermined the detracking policy and its practice. The strength of a program of change rests not so much on the power of the ideas, purposes, and values as on the reinterpretation of the implementers based on their personal understandings of institution and practice.

Autor

Kai Yu is associate professor of education and public policy at Beijing Normal University.

Inhalt

Chapter One: The Haunting SpecterChapter Two: Key Issues Chapter Three: The PolicyChapter Four: Implementation Stories: Four CasesChapter Five: The ImplementersChapter Six: Cross-case AnalysisChapter Seven: Inclusive Education in a Market Society: Remaking Meritocracy with Chinese Characteristics

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.2.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Emerging Perspectives on Education in China
• Zusatzinfo: 25 Illustrations including: - 25 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Didaktik
• Schlagworte: Asian Studies
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-4699-8 / 0739146998
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-4699-6 / 9780739146996