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Family Strategies, Guanxi, and School Success in Rural China

Ailei Xie
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Children's School Performance
Children's School Success
Children’s School Performance
Children’s School Success
China Statistics Press
educational inequality
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Examines Parent Perceptions
families
Female Household Head
Guanxi Networks
Intergenerational Closure
Interpersonal Social Networks
Junior Secondary School
Junior Secondary School Education
kinship networks
National College Entrance Examination
peasant
PTO
PTO Meeting
qualitative ethnography
rural education access strategies
Rural Junior Secondary Schools
rural parental involvement
Rural Students
School Choice Fees
secondary
senior
Senior Secondary
Senior Secondary School Graduate
Senior Secondary Schools
Short Home Visits
Social Capital Process
social capital theory
social stratification China
Xiang Government
Yangtze River

Product details

  • ISBN 9780815360889
  • Weight: 270g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 21 Dec 2017
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

Research in school success in contemporary China has argued that market reforms have reproduced the advantages for children from the cadre and the professional families while simultaneously creating new opportunities for children of the new arising economic elites. However, it has performed less for traditional peasant families. This book places a special emphasis on how rural parents from different social backgrounds use guanxi (interpersonal social networks) to maintain the interconnectedness between their families and schools to create advantages for their children in school success. It investigates, by an ethnographic study in a rural county in middle China, how families from different social backgrounds within rural society get involved in the schooling of their children and how this contributes to different patterns of school success. The book argues that schools provide few formal and routine channels for rural parents to become involved in their children’s schooling. This raises the importance of family strategic initiatives to employ guanxi in the creation of advantages for their children’s school success. It concludes with discussions about guanxi as an important mechanism for social exclusion in post-socialist China.

Chapters include:

  • Family Strategies, Parental Involvement, and School Success

  • The Roles of Parents: Voices of Parents in Zong Regarding School Involvement

  • Policy Discourses: Missing the Link between Family and School

  • Peasants: Family and Kinship

  • The Blurring Division between Home and School

This concise and comprehensive book is a qualitative study that will appeal to researchers and advance students in Chinese education and society.
About Ailei Xie

Xie Ailei is Director of the Summer Program at Graduate School of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

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