How China's System of Higher Education Works: Pragmatic Instrumentalism, Centralized-Decentralization, and Rational Chaos. Education and Society in China

Autor/in	Green, Benjamin J.
Titel	How China's System of Higher Education Works: Pragmatic Instrumentalism, Centralized-Decentralization, and Rational Chaos. Education and Society in China
Quelle	(2023), (232 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	978-1-03-225263-6
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Systems Approach; Asian Culture; Social Systems; Ideology; Governance; Administrative Organization; Collectivism; Individualism; Self Determination; Institutional Autonomy; Academic Freedom; Neoliberalism; Commercialization; Nationalism; Educational Change; Institutional Characteristics; Foreign Countries; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Systemischer Ansatz; Social system; Soziales System; Ideologie; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Individualismus; Selbstbestimmung; Institutionelle Autonomie; Akademische Freiheit; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Nationalismus; Bildungsreform; Ausland
Abstract	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 who continue to position it as little more than a research arm of the party/state. Through a synthesis of systems theory, complexity theory, and institutional logics, 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, call 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 ideal for students and scholars of international comparative education, higher education governance, and Chinese studies. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01