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Governing Educational Desire

Andrew B. Kipnis

出版时间

2011-03-31

ISBN

9780226437552

评分

★★★★★

标签

教育

书籍介绍

Parents in China greatly value higher education for their children, but the intensity and effects of their desire to achieve this goal have largely gone unexamined—until now. Governing Educational Desire explores the cultural, political, and economic origins of Chinese desire for a college education as well as its vast consequences, which include household and national economic priorities, birthrates, ethnic relations, and patterns of governance.

Where does this desire come from? Andrew B. Kipnis approaches this question in four different ways. First, he investigates the role of local context by focusing on family and community dynamics in one Chinese county, Zouping. Then, he widens his scope to examine the provincial and national governmental policies that affect educational desire. Next, he explores how contemporary governing practices were shaped by the Confucian examination system, uncovering the historical forces at work in the present. Finally, he looks for the universal in the local, considering the ways aspects of educational desire in Zouping spread throughout China and beyond. In doing so, Kipnis provides not only an illuminating analysis of education in China but also a thought-provoking reflection on what educational desire can tell us about the relationship between culture and government.

目录
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Educational Desire in Local Context
Chapter 3. Encompassing Educational Desire: National Policy in Zouping County

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文献做得很好啊
简读,放到了自己的文献综述中。首先要致敬一个外国学者研究中国教育的好奇心与热情,对邹平这个地方教育人情的观察也很独特,个人以为他的观点其实还是教育文化学取向的,将家长对教育的重视理解为一种现代化的文化模式,即家长相信好的教育可以帮助子女获得优质中产阶层生活甚至是国外一流美好生活这种设想本质上是现代化的一种文化模型,在后发现代性国家,国家、市场、学校话语共同发挥作用塑造了这一文化,而在中国,传统儒家尊师重教的话语进一步加强了这种文化,至少这本书不再是国内很多研究将家长视为罪魁祸首相关研究的重复,多重话语、力量的规训倒是值得借鉴。还在等待其他对中国重教的解释
It's quite fascinating to see a foreign anthropologist's perception toward Chinese education system. Good ethnography though.
印象最深的是 literary masculinity
条理清晰:围绕educational desire,从文化政治经济,从地方、国家、东亚、世界,逐次展开。可读完也没觉得解释了为什么中国人,邹平人这么热衷教育?描述现象是相对简单的,找到现象背后的原因就太难了,可能就在于社会现象的原因是复杂的,多元相互作用的吧。
一个半月的时间,陆陆续续看完,阅读能力也有点提升了吧hhh因为作者所做的调查是在邹平做的,本身离我家就很近,很熟悉的感觉,是属于县域内的教育人类学调查;再加之我们都是从那样的学校和家长的规训中走来的,所以会更有感触,对其中的观点也比较熟悉。 作者一方面是看到了邹平(代表着中国最广大数学校的缩影)教育欲望的独特性,另一方面也将邹平乃至中国与其他国家和地区进行比较,看到了教育欲望的相似性和不同性。其实整本书主体内容是在论述邹平的教育欲望为何这么强(父母望子成龙望女成凤的强烈心态),有何因素在影响这种教育欲望,如作者着重讲到了整个社会对文凭的重视、人口的转型(计划生育、人口减少)使得家长更有资源来教育子女、国家对素质的强调、传统观念的影响、知识上的男权等。最后的结论中讲到了这种欲望的影响。
读了Intro和conclusion nation-building和masculinity的部分insightful 有缘再读全本
从几个方面,国家政策,个人,历史传统,孩子不再是labor,人口素质,从县到国家全球化现代化看educational desire怎么被manipulate的。上面想控制,结果更狂热。反思conduct of conduct ,强调“culture”在教育狂热中的作用,
关注人的教育欲望及政府对欲望的治理,从“欲望”切入人的教育狂热。这种情感面向的分析现在依旧不多见。作者似乎是想摆脱结构视角,直面被治理的主体。但这个操作就有个问题,即治理主体依旧是“结构”。不仅如此,这个“结构”还是如此的全能,将被治理者的欲望全然在其操控之中。也因此,书中看似分析了欲望,关照了主体,但其实并无主体,所谓的欲望着的主体实际是结构的欲望客体。另,作者highlight的自己的文化分析,,我不是很能理解,,到底是个啥,,,
不得不说,田野做得很深入,很多细节,我从来没有考虑过。