Bourdieu’s sociology has traditionally been confined to the limits of its French national context. This edited collection seeks to challenge these boundaries, applying Bourdieu’s analysis of practice to Chinese education as it gains relevance and attention around the globe.
This book stems from the conviction that empirical investigation and conceptual inventiveness are needed to understand the historical and contextual particularities of Sino-foreign higher education. It brings the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu to the specificity of higher education in and for China and the multi-scalar complexity of higher education beyond the nation. Aggregating recent Bourdieu-informed investigations of empirical worlds of Sino-foreign higher education, the volume mainly considers two problems: structures and strategies of advantage behind institutional and individual action in Sino-foreign higher education; and student participation in the practices of that higher education. The volume probes the potential of Bourdieusian theory and methodology for understanding Chinese higher education beyond the nation.
This book is written to engage with the intellectual work of both established scholars and higher degree research students within China and beyond. The empirical studies provide useful insights for educational leaders in Chinese higher education sectors and in the universities of English-dominant western countries where students and researchers from China have been a growing presence. The theoretical and methodological discussions will be pertinent to scholars who are interested in Bourdieu’s sociology and sociology of higher education.
Author(s): Guanglun Michael Mu, Karen Dooley
Series: Bourdieu and Education of Asia Pacific
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 196
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of illustration
Figures
Tables
Preface
Michael’s story
Karen’s story
References
List of contributors
Chapter 1: Bourdieu and Chinese higher education beyond the nation: Structures, strategies, and practices of advantage
Introduction
Theorising a changing empirical world of Sino–foreign higher education
Chinese higher education vis-à-vis the national field of power
Struggles of participation in Sino–foreign higher education
Linguistic power in higher education
Theorising education beyond the nation
Part 1: Structures and strategies of advantage behind institutional and individual action in Sino–foreign higher education
Part 2: Student participation in practices of Sino–foreign higher education
References
Part I: Structures and strategies of advantage behind institutional and individual action in Sino–foreign higher education
Chapter 2: Partnering for transnational higher education: A multiple correspondence analysis of university habitus and institutional action for ‘China–Foreign Cooperation in Running Schools’
Introduction
The development of CFCRS: The field of TNHE and field of power (moment 1 field analysis)
University habitus
The empirical study: Moments 2 and 3 field analysis
Axis 1: A space of domination and subordination
Axes 2 and 3: A space of oppositions within the dominated space: central provinces versus western provinces
Discussion
Elite/985 universities: CFCRS as one of the many options
Sub-elite/211 universities: Striving for national recognition
Non-elite universities: Making a virtue out of necessity
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 3: Matching individual with institutional habitus? Students’ choice of transnational higher education in China
Introduction
Matching individual with institutional habitus? Resorting to reflexivity in modern society
Methodology
Findings
Discussion and conclusion
References
Chapter 4: Desire for cosmopolitanism and entrepreneurialism in the age of de-globalisation
Introduction
China’s middle class and its globality
Globality and cosmopolitanism
Self-development and suzhi education
Research questions
Research methodology
Sampling
Research design
Findings and discussion
Conclusion
Notes
References
Part II: Student participation in practices of Sino–foreign higher education
Chapter 5: Chinese international students in physical activity and physical education courses: A conceptual critique of the literature grounded in Bourdieu’s concept of bodily hexis
Introduction
Organisation of the chapter
Physical education/physical activity courses in the Canadian context
How do faculty and instructors perceive Chinese students as participants?
Review of related literature
Bourdieu, habitus, and bodily hexis
What is the value of bodily hexis for PE/PA researchers?
Implications for research methodology
Conclusion: Plausible and desirable pathways of research
Note
References
Chapter 6: Chinese international students’ mental health–related experiences and education engagement in Australia
Introduction
Mental health of Chinese international students
A Bourdieusian reading of Chinese international students’ mental health–related experiences
Methods
Stressors, help seeking habitus, and emotional capital in mental health
Habitus transformation regarding mental health
Cultural and linguistic capital in relation to stressors and mental health
Implications to education engagement in Australia
Conclusion
Note
References
Chapter 7: Power imbalance and power shift between Chinese international research students and their supervisors: Adaptation and resilience
Introduction
Literature review
Relationships versus relations: A Bourdieusian framework
Research design
Findings and discussion
Power imbalance
Supervisor authority
Selection of research topics
Selection of associate supervisors
Manipulation of academic progress and standard
Student consent
Conforming with supervisors’ decisions
Sustain a positive image in front of supervisors
Self-perceived student deficiency
Power shift
Empowerment by supervisors
Autonomy and authority claimed by students
Student resistance
Conclusion
References
Chapter 8: Immersion in the English-speaking university and the emergence of ‘China English’
Introduction
Methodology: A neo-Bourdieusian approach
Participants and data ccollection
The domination of native academic English in international higher education
A Chinese Illusio
Symbolic violence produced by the domination of nativeness
Transformation, disillusionment, and submission
The emergence of academic ‘China English’
Critical academic China English writing pedagogy
References
Chapter 9: Mobile international students in China: Immersion ‘in-between’
Introduction
Literature review
Bourdieu’s thinking tools
Research methodology
Sample
Data collection method
Analytical approach
Findings
Students’ perceptions of the value of capital accrued through HE in China
English as a medium of instruction and linguistic capital
Discussion
Conclusion
References
Part III: Conclusions: Reflexive re- appropriation of the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu for research on higher education in the 2020s and beyond
Chapter 10: Re-appropriating Bourdieu for post-national research on Sino–foreign higher education
Introduction
On Bourdieu’s methodological autonomisation
Predictions and problematics for Sino–foreign higher education
The university organisation-as-field in a field of higher education organisations
Revisiting institutional habitus
Quantitative method for post-national research
Notes
References
Index
