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How China’s System of Higher Education Works - Pragmatic Instrumentalism, Centralized-Decentralization, and Rational Chaos (Hardcover)
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How China’s System of Higher Education Works - Pragmatic Instrumentalism, Centralized-Decentralization, and Rational Chaos (Hardcover)
Series: Education and Society in China
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Green sheds light onto the mercurial and ill-defined boundaries of
institutional governance within China’s unique system of higher
education, a national system that remains misunderstood by scholars
who continue to position it as little more than a research arm of
the party/state. Through a synthesis of systems theory, complexity
theory, and institutional logics, Green provides a relational
accounting of "Higher Education with Chinese Characteristics" – a
complex, adaptive social system whose paradoxical modernization
ideology of pragmatic instrumentalism, in conjunction with a
centralized-decentralized governance model, foments rational chaos
at the institutional level. Specifically, his book highlights the
concept of rational chaos – an observable phenomenon of
evolutionary emergence experienced by subaltern actors engaged with
the confusing and often paradoxical institutional logics of
meso/micro-level governance. Moreover, developed through in-depth
narrative interviews, Green’s conceptualization of
collective-individualism provides a glimpse into the diverse
patterns of identity that have developed within a single
institutional governance context. These discrete identity
formations, patterned through varying understandings of individual
self-determinism, collective role fulfillment, norms and structures
of governance, and subsequent changemaking efforts, call into
question culturally deterministic research surrounding
self-mastery, institutional autonomy, and academic freedom within
the Chinese higher education context. His book highlights a
subaltern institutional lifeworld accounting of higher education
governance that will speak to anyone grappling with neoliberal
commodification, managerialism, academic nationalism and the
increasing onset of transnational academic (im)mobility. It is
ideal for students and scholars of international comparative
education, higher education governance, and Chinese studies.
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