Private schools in the People's Republic of China: Development, modalities and contradictions
Schulte, Barbara LU
(2017)
p.115-131
- Abstract
- Chinese private schools may come across as a contradictory phenomenon: why would an authoritarian and officially socialist government, that needs to rely on education as an instrument of national unification and ideological control, allow for private schools and profit-making in the educational sector? However, seen against the background of the far-reaching privatisation processes that have been shaping the Chinese economy and society since the 1990s, one might equally wonder why this seemingly all-pervading privatisation wave had for a long time stopped short of the educational realm. This chapter outlines the development, modalities, and contradictions of private schools in the People’s Republic of China.
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- author
- Schulte, Barbara
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2017
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- private schools, education, comparative education, privatisation
- host publication
- Private Schools and School Choice in Compulsory Education
- editor
- Koinzer, Thomas ; Nikolai, Rita and Waldow, Florian
- pages
- 115 - 131
- publisher
- Springer
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85055398657
- ISBN
- 978-3-658-17103-2
- 978-3-658-17104-9
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-658-17104-9_8
- project
- Cash cow, civil space or cooptation: private schools in urban China
- Family, Migration and Welfare
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- a947a727-2038-4f60-abcd-cfe1db95f7e2
- date added to LUP
- 2017-01-11 16:46:38
- date last changed
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