Preferential Education Policies in Multi-Ethnic China - National Rhetoric, Local Realities

Preferential Education Policies in Multi-ethnic China: National Rhetoric, Local Realities explores the cultural logic of China's preferential policy measures. Similar in premise but different in practice and philosophy to American affirmative action, the preferential policies evoke controversy on all sides: from those who see the measures as insufficient to address problems of educational disparities between ethnic groups, and from those who see the measures as "reverse discrimination." Yamada shows how the policy measures attempt to manage ethnic-based contradictions and appease both majority and minority populations.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Preferential Policies And Preparatory Programs 2. The Cultural Logic of Policy: Producing and Reproducing the Educated Person 3. Strategy and Counter-Strategy: The Landscape of Higher Education in China 4. Standardization and Modification: ‘Minority’ as a Type of Education 5. The Fine Lines of Contradiction: Tolerable Forms of Difference 6. A Stable Rationale, A Changing Economy: Education and the Means of Development 7. Conclusion: A Dialectic without Synthesis?

About the author

Naomi C.F. Yamada is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Education of Global Communication, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan. She received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.

Summary

This book explores the cultural logic of China’s preferential policy measures and shows how the policy measures attempt to manage ethnic-based contradictions and appease both majority and minority populations.

Product details

• Authors: Naomi C.F. Yamada, Naomi C.f. (University of Tsukuba Yamada
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.04.2022
• EAN: 9780367491406
• ISBN: 978-0-367-49140-6
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Education and Society in China
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, Politics & government, Regional Studies, Educational strategies & policy, Politics and government, Regional / International studies, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Educational strategies and policy, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher