Competition and compassion in Chinese secondary education
Machine generated contents note:PART I -- 1. Promoting Competition: A Dramatic Shift of Discourse -- 2. Reducing Competition: The Cat and Mouse Game -- 3. The Friendship Dilemma: Competition and Emotional Isolation -- 4. "What's Your Friend's Ranking Position?" Parental Peer-Rela...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York, NY
Palgrave Macmillan
2015
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| Ausgabe: | First edition, October 2015 |
| Schriftenreihe: | Palgrave studies on Chinese education in a global perspective
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Machine generated contents note:PART I -- 1. Promoting Competition: A Dramatic Shift of Discourse -- 2. Reducing Competition: The Cat and Mouse Game -- 3. The Friendship Dilemma: Competition and Emotional Isolation -- 4. "What's Your Friend's Ranking Position?" Parental Peer-Related Beliefs and Practices -- PART II -- 5. The Ratty Shoe Case: Friendship and Compassion -- 6. The Social Problems Facing China: Adolescents' Civic Perspectives -- 7. Can Education be Both Competitive and Compassionate?. -- PART I -- 1. Promoting Competition: A Dramatic Shift of Discourse -- 2. Reducing Competition: The Cat and Mouse Game -- 3. The Friendship Dilemma: Competition and Emotional Isolation -- 4. "What's Your Friend's Ranking Position?" Parental Peer-Related Beliefs and Practices -- PART II -- 5. The Ratty Shoe Case: Friendship and Compassion -- 6. The Social Problems Facing China: Adolescents' Civic Perspectives -- 7. Can Education be Both Competitive and Compassionate? "Competition and Compassion in Chinese Secondary Education examines the nature of academic competition in Chinese schools and demonstrates its debilitating effects on adolescents' psychosocial development. Zhao shows how global economic competition induces changes in national education policies, which in turn shapes how school-aged youth are encouraged by their parents and teachers to relate to others and society. Facing extreme pressures of global economic competition, how can education both in the East and West sustain the kind of humanistic learning that is critical for promoting public reasoning or discourse? The book proposes a research-based approach for balancing academic achievement with the promotion of social and civic engagement in China and elsewhere"-- "Competition and Compassion in Chinese Secondary Education examines the nature of academic competition in Chinese schools and documents its debilitating effects on Chinese adolescents' social, moral, and civic development. Using the careful interpretation of empirical data, Zhao shows how global economic competition induces changes in national education policies, which in turn shapes how school-aged youth relate to others and society"-- "Competition and Compassion in Chinese Secondary Education examines the nature of academic competition in Chinese schools and demonstrates its debilitating effects on adolescents' psychosocial development. Zhao shows how global economic competition induces changes in national education policies, which in turn shapes how school-aged youth are encouraged by their parents and teachers to relate to others and society. Facing extreme pressures of global economic competition, how can education both in the East and West sustain the kind of humanistic learning that is critical for promoting public reasoning or discourse? The book proposes a research-based approach for balancing academic achievement with the promotion of social and civic engagement in China and elsewhere"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XX, 192 Seiten 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781137479402 978-1-137-47940-2 |