China's Hidden Curriculum: Hukou, Floating Labour, and Children Left Behind
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| Title: | China's Hidden Curriculum: Hukou, Floating Labour, and Children Left Behind |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Yanming Ren, Saville Kushner, John Hope |
| Source: | Critical Education. 2020 11(9):1-21. |
| Availability: | Institute for Critical Education Studies. 2125 Main Mall, EDCP, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4 Canada. Tel: 604-822-2830; Web site: https://ices.library.ubc.ca/index.php/criticaled/ |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 22 |
| Publication Date: | 2020 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Research |
| Education Level: | Secondary Education |
| Descriptors: | Industrialization, Migration, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Parent Child Relationship, Low Income Students, At Risk Students, Migrant Workers, Migrant Problems, Social Status |
| Geographic Terms: | China |
| ISSN: | 1920-4175 |
| Abstract: | This is a case study of the impact of rapid industrialization on Chinese school, with the experience of left-behind children at its core. Much of China's remarkable economic success in recent years owes to its policy of 'floating labour', allowing for the largest domestic migration in global history. Workers are allowed to migrate from areas of low- to high-work intensity. Mobility is for individual workers and not families, leading to the creation of a generation of around 60 million 'left-behind children'. Using case methods allied to sociological theory this article reports the phenomenon and the experience of a left-behind child in a secondary school in central China, placed within the context of the impact of rapid industrialization on school practices. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2025 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1479567 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | This is a case study of the impact of rapid industrialization on Chinese school, with the experience of left-behind children at its core. Much of China's remarkable economic success in recent years owes to its policy of 'floating labour', allowing for the largest domestic migration in global history. Workers are allowed to migrate from areas of low- to high-work intensity. Mobility is for individual workers and not families, leading to the creation of a generation of around 60 million 'left-behind children'. Using case methods allied to sociological theory this article reports the phenomenon and the experience of a left-behind child in a secondary school in central China, placed within the context of the impact of rapid industrialization on school practices. |
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| ISSN: | 1920-4175 |
