VOLUME 7(2) • 2019
PROBLEMS OF INTEGRATION IN URBAN STATE SCHOOLS FOR MIGRANT CHILDREN: FROM THE FOUCAULTIAN PERSPECTIVE
ABSTRACT. With the development of urbanization in China, the demand for the education of migrant workers and their children is increasing, and their educational problems are becoming more significant and complex. The children of most rural migrant workers are now admitted by urban state schools. How..
MODEL PEOPLE’S DISCIPLINE ON OTHERS AND SELF-DISCIPLINE
ABSTRACT. The propaganda of model is one of the ways in which China conducts moral education and political education for the masses. Chinese admiration for model stems from ancient Chinese politics and moral tradition. Since the founding of the country, the model figures constructed in each period h..
A HISTORICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE TRANSITION FROM “NORMAL EDUCATION” TO “TEACHER EDUCATION”: A FOUCAULDIAN PERSPECTIVE
ABSTRACT. Since the start of China’s “reform and opening-up” period in the late 1970s, it has gradually undergone the transition from “normal education” (“shifan” education in Chinese) to “teacher education” and the Chinese Modern Teacher Education System has been established. Foucault’s “discipline..
DISCIPLINE IN THE XUEJI
ABSTRACT. This paper analyzes the discipline system used in ancient Chinese education from Foucault’s knowledge/power perspective. The article first discusses how Foucault thinks about the relationship between knowledge/power and discipline. Then, by analyzing the contents of the Xueji, I argue that..
DISCIPLINARY INSTRUCTION LIST IN PRIMARY EDUCATION
ABSTRACT. For teachers working in public primary education in China, part of the job includes inventing lists of instructions that can be used to manage students in different ways. These so-called lists of instructions are created by teachers to prepare students for classroom instruction, raising th..
FOUCAULT’S TRUTH REGIMES AND GOVERNANCE IN CHINA
ABSTRACT. This paper examines truth regimes – educational discourses – from 1978 to the present in China and finds that these truth regimes experienced a wide variety of changes. These changes moved from “Suzhi Jiaoyu” education for all-round development, to building a country with strong human reso..
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL CREATIVITY AND COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE IN MODERN CHINESE SOCIETY
ABSTRACT. This article intends to analyze the evolution of the meaning of “individualization” in Chinese society and tries to explain the potential that individual creativity has in society. It shows that individualization emerged in Chinese society during the Chinese economic reform and period of o..
THE DISCIPLINE OF THE GAZE: SELF-TECHNOLOGY AND IDOL TRAINEES
ABSTRACT. Over the last four months, a show named “Idol Trainee” dominated the entertainment headlines. In addition to showing stage performances and spectators’ responses, this program followed the process used to create idols, which include depicting their daily lives. From a pedagogical perspecti..