UID:
almahu_9949501440102882
Umfang:
1 online resource (xvi, 216 pages) :
,
illustrations.
ISBN:
9781000879797
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1000879798
,
9781003282372
,
1003282377
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9781000879827
,
1000879828
Serie:
Education and society in China
Inhalt:
"Green sheds light onto the mercurial and ill-defined boundaries of institutional governance within China's unique system of higher education, a national system that remains misunderstood by scholars and some see as little more than a research arm of the party/state. Through a synthesis of systems theory, complexity theory, and institutional logic thought, Green provides a relational accounting of "Higher Education with Chinese Characteristics" - a complex, adaptive social system whose paradoxical modernization ideology of pragmatic instrumentalism, in conjunction with a centralized-decentralized governance model, foments rational chaos at the institutional level. Specifically, his book highlights the concept of rational chaos - an observable phenomenon of evolutionary emergence experienced by subaltern actors engaged with the confusing and often paradoxical institutional logics of meso/micro-level governance. Moreover, developed through in-depth narrative interviews, Green's conceptualization of collective-individualism provides a glimpse into the diverse patterns of identity that have developed within a single institutional governance context. These discrete identity formations, patterned through varying understandings of individual self-determinism, collective role fulfillment, norms and structures of governance, and subsequent changemaking efforts, calls into question culturally deterministic research surrounding self-mastery, institutional autonomy, and academic freedom within the Chinese higher education context. His book highlights a subaltern institutional lifeworld accounting of higher education governance that will speak to anyone grappling with neoliberal commodification, managerialism, academic nationalism and the increasing onset of transnational academic (im)mobility it is ushering forth. It is ideal for students and scholars of international comparative education, higher education governance and Chinese studies"--
Anmerkung:
Preface -- Higher education with Chinese characteristics : HEWCC -- China's centralized-decentralized higher education governance model -- Vacillation on institutional autonomy and academic freedom : a discourse of uncertainty -- Self-mastery : a misrepresented concept within China higher education -- In pursuit of rational chaos : a dynamic of evolutionary emergence within China's complex system of higher education -- Rational chaos and collective-individualism : diverse patterns of identity and Institutional change -- Towards a praxis of collective individualism : no longer 'dancing in the chains' of self-mastery -- Conclusion : a call for increased understanding and engagement with HEWCC -- Appendix. Eight interviews coded through the RCM for identity and institutional change.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: Green, Benjamin J. How China's system of higher education works Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 ISBN 9781032252636
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.4324/9781003282372
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003282372
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