The monograph examines the constructive process of class consciousness among rural migrant children in China and how their perceptions of social reality are shaped by their interactions within family, community, and school contexts.
Using evidence from qualitative investigations conducted in two Beijing primary schools, one public school and one private migrant school, the author explores the nexus of social class structure, schooling process, and consciousness construction of rural migrant children, which helps readers to understand rural migrant children’s perceived way out of their social reproduction loop, foresee the future working-class formation in Chinese society, and seek the possibility of fostering a critical consciousness of China’s new workers via education channels.
The book will appeal to researchers and students studying migrant children, migrant workers, and education in China. Those who research underprivileged children from the perspective of student agency/student resistance and through a Freirean lens could also be an audience for this book.
Author(s): Jiaxin Chen
Series: Routledge Research on Social Work, Social Policy and Social Development in Greater China
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 156
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of tables
Preface
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Living with educational inequalities in childhood
Chapter 3 The worker–boss-divide society in rural migrant children’s eyes
Chapter 4 Compliance or resistance: Rural migrant children seeking their alternative way out
Chapter 5 The meritocratic schooling process in urban China
Chapter 6 Possibilities and challenges of fostering critical consciousness in the schooling process
Chapter 7 Revisiting studies of rural migrant children from the class perspective
Chapter 8 From awareness to critical consciousness: What is the missing link?
Appendix: Research methodology
References
Index
