Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
First Published in 2000. This book, a collection of ethnographic studies of Chinese schooling, aims to take the reader into Chinese schools and provide a picture of students and teachers as actors who practice culture. The case studies also provide a means by which ethnography is explored as a central methodological focus and concern. This book explores the meaning of ethnography, both in describing Chinese schools and in the broader context of the defined purposes and practices of research. This self-reflexive approach to school ethnography in China includes issues of cultural translation and the connections between the process of ethnographic work, the emergence of a text, and the construction of a theory.
Synopsis
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Table of Contents
Introduction: a discussion on ethnography / Donald P. Kelly -- Understanding basic education policies in China: an ethnographic approach / Kai-ming Cheng -- National minority regions: studying school discontinuation / Gerard A. Postiglione -- Juvenile delinquency and reformatory education in China: a retrospective / Irving Epstein -- Rural Chinese education: observing from the margin / Lynn Paine and Brian DeLany -- In the moment- discourses of power, narratives of relationship: framing ethnography of Chinese schooling, 1981-1997 / Heidi A. Ross -- Reconstructing the past: reminiscences of missionary school days / Judith Liu -- Conclusion / Vandra Lea Masemann.