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The Demoralization of Teachers - Crisis in a Rural School in China (Hardcover)
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The Demoralization of Teachers - Crisis in a Rural School in China (Hardcover)
Series: Emerging Perspectives on Education in China
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The educational system in China is marked by its dramatic
inequality between rural and urban schools. The challenges facing
rural schools are usually understood as disadvantages in funding,
facilities, and staffing, which consequently result in undesirable
student performance in general. This book, however, penetrates
these phenomena on the surface and brings forth a much deeper moral
crisis in rural education, a crisis that is entrenched in the
complicated interlocking of formal and informal institutions within
and beyond the school. The Demoralization of Teachers describes the
work and workplace in a rural school from the perspective of
teachers who were working there. It faithfully depicts the
lamentable state of teachers' work morale in the school and, little
by little as if a detective story, reveals the reasons for the
teachers' demoralization by vivid narratives. The book demonstrates
the profound impact on the meanings of teaching exerted by the
state curriculum reform, the formal and informal norms and
regulations in the school, and the erosion of moral integrity in
the state bureaucracy and the society at large. The crisis in the
rural school stops to be a "rural" or educational problem in
nature, but mirrors the societal-wide transformation in political
economy as well as in ideology in the current reform China. The
sheer complexity of the moral crisis in this ethnography calls for
renewed efforts to identify and investigate the educational
problems in rural China from fresh theoretical perspectives that
situate rural education in broader historical and social contexts
and processes.
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