How Chinas System of Higher Education Works - Pragmatic Instrumentalism, Centralized Decentralization, Rational

Green sheds light onto the mercurial and ill-defined boundaries of institutional governance within China's unique system of higher education, a national system that remains misunderstood by scholars and some see as little more than a research arm of the party/state.

List of contents

Acknowledgments Preface 1. Higher Education with Chinese Characteristics: HEWCC 2. Pragmatic Instrumentalism: A Faulty Modernization Ideology 3. China’s Centralized-Decentralized Higher Education Governance Model 4. Vacillation on Institutional Autonomy and Academic Freedom: A Discourse of Uncertainty 5. Self-Mastery: A Misrepresented Concept within China Higher Education 6. In Pursuit of Rational Chaos: A Dynamic of Evolutionary Emergence within China’s Complex System of Higher Education 7. Rational Chaos and Collective-Individualism: Diverse Patterns of Identity and Institutional Change 8. Towards a Praxis of Collective Individualism: No Longer ‘Dancing in the Chains’ of Self-Mastery 9. Conclusion: A Call for Increased Understanding and Engagement with HEWCC 11. Appendix: Eight Interviews Coded through the RCM for Identity and Institutional Change

About the author

Benjamin J. Green is Assistant Professor in the College of Teacher Education at Beijing Language and Culture University. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Education from the Faculty of Education at Beijing Normal University. His recent works have focused on China's higher education internationalization, US-China relations, digital nationalism, critical cosmopolitanism, collective intelligence, and Chinese internationalism as a contested project of alternative modernity.

Summary

Green sheds light onto the mercurial and ill-defined boundaries of institutional governance within China’s unique system of higher education, a national system that remains misunderstood by scholars and some see as little more than a research arm of the party/state.

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Green, Benjamin J. Green, Benjamin J. (Beijing Normal University Green
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.04.2023
• EAN: 9781032252636
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3225263-6
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Education and Society in China
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; China, EDUCATION / General, Regional Studies, Educational strategies & policy, Regional / International studies, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Development Studies, Higher education, tertiary education, Educational strategies and policy, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies