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.

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 J. Green, Benjamin J. (Beijing Normal University Green
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 09.10.2024
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system
• EAN: 9781032252643
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3225264-3
• Pages: 216
• Series: Education and Society in China
• Subjects: China, EDUCATION / General, Regional Studies, Educational strategies & policy, Regional / International studies, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Development Studies, Higher education, tertiary education, Central government, Educational strategies and policy, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies, Chinese Dream, Chinese Communist Party, Academic Freedom, Vice Versa, Cai Yuanpei, institutional autonomy, Internationalization Of He, Concerted Effort, Street Level Bureaucrats, neoliberalism in universities, China's BRI, complexity theory education, Institutional Logics Approach, critical systems theory, Confucian political culture, Progressive Institutional Change, institutional governance China, qualitative narrative interviews, collective individualism theory, academic nationalism, Chinese higher education governance models, Pragmatic Instrumentalism, HEI Governance, China's HES, Systems Thought, pragmatic instrumental governance, China's HEI, Zi Zhu, China He, Institutionalized Academic Freedom, HEI Autonomy, CCP's Central Committee, Collective-Individualism, Higher Education Mergers