Building Resilience of Floating Children Left Behind Children in - Power, Politics, Participation, and Education

List of contents

1. Floating children and left-behind children in a migration context: Policy, power, and participation
2. Conceptualising resilience: Foundational work and paradigmatic shift
3. Measuring resilience: Methodological conundrum and measurement invariance
4. Resilience as a classed socialisation: An intergenerational project
5. School-based approach to resilience: The magic of physical activity
6. Community-based approach to resilience: Peer relations and significant others
7. Transforming vulnerabilities into opportunities: An ecological model
8. Building resilience of floating children and left-behind children: Empirical lessons and sociological implications

About the author

Guanglun Michael Mu is Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow in the School of Teacher Education and Leadership at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. His research interests include sociology of education, quantitative research, child and youth resilience, as well as the learning and socialisation of Chinese diaspora.

Summary

Emerging from two decades of exponential growth is a population of nearly 100 million floating children and left-behind children. This book offers an analysis of how oscillations of government discourse have come to shape central and local educational policies regarding the schooling of these children.

Product details

• Authors: Guanglun Michael Mu, Guanglun (Queensland University of Tec Michael Mu, Guanglun (Queensland University of Technology Michael Mu, Guanglun Michael Mu, Guanglun Michael (Queensland University of Tec Mu, Guanglun Michael (University of South Australi Mu
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781138552449
• ISBN: 978-1-138-55244-9
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: Routledge Research in Educational Equality and Diversity; Routledge Research in Educational Equality and Diversity
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; China, EDUCATION / General, Education, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, EDUCATION / Rural, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, Rural communities, Social discrimination & inequality, Educational strategies & policy, Philosophy and theory of education, Pre-school & kindergarten, Pre-school and kindergarten, Educational strategies and policy, Social discrimination and social justice