Class Consciousness Construction of Rural Migrant Children in China: Seeking the Alternative Way Out in Meritocratic Schooling

by Jiaxin Chen

Overview

The monograph examines the constructive process of class consciousness among rural migrant children in China and how their perceptions of the social reality are shaped within their interactions with the family, community, and school contexts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032290621
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/27/2024
Series:	Routledge Research on Social Work, Social Policy and Social Development in Greater China
Pages:	156
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jiaxin Chen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. Her research focuses on inequality and social justice issues, particularly on educational inequalities and social mobility, rural-urban migration, and class reproduction.

Table of Contents

1: Introduction 2: Living with Educational Inequalities in Childhood 3: The Worker-Boss-Divide: Society in Rural Migrant Children’s Eyes 4: Compliance or Resistance: Rural Migrant Children’s Seeking Their Alternative Way Out 5: The Meritocratic Schooling Process in Urban China 6: Possibilities and Challenges of Fostering Critical Consciousness in the Schooling Process 7: Revisiting Studies of Rural Migrant Children from the Class Perspective 8: From Awareness to Critical Consciousness: What is the Missing Link?