History and Citizenship Education in Post-Mao China

Auteur

Alisa Jones is Northeast Asia Fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University, USA.

Texte du rabat

This book examines the development of education in China over the past three decades, exploring the ways in which the `contradictions within and between policy prescriptions, pedagogical theory and classroom implementation have been handled where issues of political socialisation, national identification and public morality are at stake.

Contenu

1 Introduction Part 1: Production 2. Theory: Politics and Pedagogy 3. Praxis: Policy Part 2: Transmission 4. Theory: Curriculum 5. Praxis: Textbooks Part 3: Consumption 6. Theory: Teachers and teaching 7. Praxis: Learning Outcomes 8. Conclusion