Private schools in the People's Republic of China: Development, modalities and contradictions

Barbara Schulte

doi:10.1007/978-3-658-17104-9_8

Private schools in the People's Republic of China: Development, modalities and contradictions

Barbara Schulte

Education

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Chinese private schools may come across as a contradictory phenomenon: why would an authoritarian and officially socialist government, that needs to rely on education as an instrument of national unification and ideological control, allow for private schools and profit-making in the educational sector? However, seen against the background of the far-reaching privatisation processes that have been shaping the Chinese economy and society since the 1990s, one might equally wonder why this seemingly all-pervading privatisation wave had for a long time stopped short of the educational realm. This chapter outlines the development, modalities, and contradictions of private schools in the People’s Republic of China.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Private Schools and School Choice in Compulsory Education
Editors	Thomas Koinzer, Rita Nikolai, Florian Waldow
Place of Publication	Wiesbaden
Publisher	Springer
Pages	115-131
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-658-17104-9
ISBN (Print)	978-3-658-17103-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-17104-9_8
Publication status	Published - 2017

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education
comparative education
privatisation

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Eklund, L. (Researcher), Schulte, B. (Researcher), Gren, N. (Researcher), Swader, C. (Researcher), Lundqvist, Å. (Researcher), Song, R. (Researcher), Kollmann, L. (Researcher), Kazi, U. (Researcher), Eldén, S. (Researcher), Quaglietta, O. (Researcher), Taheri, J. (Researcher), Larsson, M. (Researcher), Ertem, E. C. (Researcher), Hemmaty, M. (Researcher), Gezgin, E. (Researcher), Esseveld, J. (Researcher), Farsakoglu, E. H. (Researcher) & Solano, P. (Researcher)
2015/05/05 → …
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Cash cow, civil space or cooptation: private schools in urban China
Schulte, B. (PI)
2012/04/01 → 2015/12/31
Project: Research

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Private Schools and School Choice in Compulsory Education. ed. / Thomas Koinzer; Rita Nikolai; Florian Waldow. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2017. p. 115-131.

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