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This book explores the lived experiences of urban young people as they navigate their educational transitions by tackling temporal orientations, futurity, social class, parenting, youth agency and emotional practices. Grounded in empirical data, this book contextualizes the educational transitions within the broader contexts of biography, temporality and family. Moving beyond conventional views that frame educational transitions as simple outcomes, this book repositions them as processes of negotiation involving young people, families and schools. By focusing on the social aspects of educational transition, this work reveals individuals engagement within educational and temporality norms, class hierarchies, family relationship environment that contribute to processes of educational biography construction. It underscores strategies, constraints, interdependence, emotions, challenges and vulnerabilities during young people s navigation of education transitions. Aimed at researchers, educators and policymakers, this book provides insights into the intersections of temporality, education and family, illuminating the complexities and the reproduction of new and persistent inequalities of decision-making and trajectories orientation within educational system for contemporary young people.
List of contents
.- Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Social Changes and Youth in China.- Chapter 3: Youth, temporality, and family.- Chapter 4: Futurity, ceaselessness and the drive to academic success.- Chapter 5: Waithood, slowness and the emergence of open futures.- Chapter 6: Parenting practices in educational decision-making.- Chapter 7: Young people s agency and doing families for educational choices.- Chapter 8: Conclusion.
About the author
Wang Ziyu
, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the School of Social Research, Renmin University of China. Her research primarily focuses on youth experiences, educational transitions, parenting, children's agency, temporality, parenting practices and well-being. She is a member of the research groups in Sociology and Politics of Education (KUPOLI) and the Helsinki Practice Research Centre (HPRC).
Summary
This book explores the lived experiences of urban young people as they navigate their educational transitions by tackling temporal orientations, futurity, social class, parenting, youth agency and emotional practices. Grounded in empirical data, this book contextualizes the educational transitions within the broader contexts of biography, temporality and family. Moving beyond conventional views that frame educational transitions as simple outcomes, this book repositions them as processes of negotiation involving young people, families and schools. By focusing on the social aspects of educational transition, this work reveals individuals’ engagement within educational and temporality norms, class hierarchies, family relationship environment that contribute to processes of educational biography construction. It underscores strategies, constraints, interdependence, emotions, challenges and vulnerabilities during young people’s navigation of education transitions. Aimed at researchers, educators and policymakers, this book provides insights into the intersections of temporality, education and family, illuminating the complexities and the reproduction of new and persistent inequalities of decision-making and trajectories orientation within educational system for contemporary young people.
