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Mulvey, Benjamin; Wright, Ewan – British Educational Research Journal, 2022
The term "neijuan" (in English 'involution') has captured feelings of perpetual competition and anxiety among university students in China preparing for their post-graduation careers. In this article, we develop a neo-Weberian reading of "neijuan" to construct a framework using positional conflict theory and the concept of…
Descriptors: Competition, Social Differences, Social Class, Foreign Countries
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Liu, Xinya; Qin, Fei; Zhou, Xuehan; Hu, Xuan; Zhang, Yu – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2020
While education equality is considered crucial for broader social equality, policies that aim to equalize educational resources are sometimes suspected of discriminating against high achievers. Such potential discrimination should be examined empirically to provide robust evidence for policymakers and the broader public. Using a quasi-experimental…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Selective Admission, Longitudinal Studies, Comparative Analysis
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Xuelong, Hu; Yongjiu, Kang – Chinese Education & Society, 2019
Existing studies have found that the starting point for class divisions is the family: while schools play a interrupting role, it is passive compared to the roles of the family and children themselves. It is therefore taken for granted when rural students are screened out by school education or fail to test into good universities. If the…
Descriptors: Rural Population, Foreign Countries, Cultural Capital, Family Life
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Jin, Jin; Ball, Stephen J. – Critical Studies in Education, 2021
Some authors argue that access to elite universities can bring about a 'habitus transformation' for working-class students, however in this paper, based on a three-year life history study, it is suggested that the transformative effects of the elite university experience come about in relation to and constrained by the working-class habitus.…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Cultural Capital, Working Class, Selective Admission
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Wang, Jianlan; Li, Qiqi; Luo, Ying – Research in Science Education, 2022
High-stakes testing (HST) is critical in the educational system of East-Asian countries like China, and the ongoing standards-based reform in many Western countries like the USA. HST has been criticized for corrupting an educational system through means like disengaging students from authentic learning. It seems that students' affective learning…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, High Stakes Tests, Science Tests
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Chen, Siyu – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2020
The recent expansion of the overseas education market in China has led to the rise of "Background Promotion Projects" designed to strengthen the applications of elite university aspirants. Based on ethnographic findings of a particular Background Promotion Project, a Chinese high school entrepreneurship competition, this study analyses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Entrepreneurship, Academic Aspiration
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Song, Jia; Chu, Zhaofeng; Xu, Yuwei – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2021
Creating world-class universities (WCUs) has recently become a significant policy and practice in higher education in China under the Double World-Class Project. However, some negative effects have encouraged decoupling from the policy goals. To identify the reasons, we conducted policy document analysis and purposive interviews at three elite…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, Reputation, Educational Quality, Institutional Characteristics
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Peim, Nick – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2021
This paper revisits the scope of Catherine Malabou's thinking as a development of the ontological turn in continental philosophy. It puts this excursion of thinking alongside an account of education in modernity as the apotheosis of biopower. It aligns biopower, as manifest in education, as form of 'technological enframing'. In this it challenges…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories
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Coniam, David; Lee, Tony; Milanovic, Michael; Pike, Nigel; Zhao, Wen – Language Education & Assessment, 2022
The calibration of test materials generally involves the interaction between empirical analysis and expert judgement. This paper explores the extent to which scale familiarity might affect expert judgement as a component of test validation in the calibration process. It forms part of a larger study that investigates the alignment of the…
Descriptors: Specialists, Language Tests, Test Validity, College Faculty
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Xie, Ailei; Reay, Diane – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2020
Current literature suggests two kinds of congruence that come into play when students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds enter elite universities: academic fit and social fit. Yet, in most of the studies on habitus transformation, the differences between the two are seldom mentioned. This may imply that the transformation of one aspect…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Academic Achievement, Alienation, Selective Admission
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Liu, Dan; Morgan, W. John – Gender and Education, 2020
The article draws upon Bourdieu's concepts of habitus and cultural capital to provide an in-depth analysis of the gender differences in students' motivation for undertaking postgraduate (PG) education in Mainland China. It reports an in-depth case study comprising 381 questionnaires and 30 semi-structured interviews. The quantitative data show…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Enrollment Influences, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences
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Jin, Jin; Ball, Stephen J. – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2020
Studies in relation to working-class students at elite universities document on the one hand the role of 'mundane reflexivity' in dealing with class domination while on the other indicate a new form of domination and disadvantages working on these working-class 'exceptions' -- they may achieve academically at university but experience various…
Descriptors: Working Class, Selective Admission, Social Capital, Cultural Capital
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Mai, Anh Ngoc – Higher Education for the Future, 2022
As previous research has not addressed the relationship between university autonomy and university rankings within countries where the state control model is used, this study explores universities' strategies to achieve top university rankings in accordance with their autonomous rights and financial as well as political support. Specifically, this…
Descriptors: Reputation, Institutional Evaluation, Institutional Characteristics, Cross Cultural Studies
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Qian, Hong; Youngs, Peter; Hu, Sihua; Prawat, Xueying Ji – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2020
China's Free Teacher Education Policy (FTEP) was initiated in 2007 in response to concerns about university tuition increases and teacher shortages in rural provinces. In this paper, the authors draw on interview data from eight FTEP graduates/teaching candidates and eight teacher educators from five FTEP universities to examine the extent to…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Teacher Shortage, Rural Schools
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Kim, Dongbin; Roh, Jin-young – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
This study explores whether patterns of doctorate attainment among Chinese and Korean international students in the USA have changed over time, both in terms of quantity (i.e., number of international students) and quality (i.e., the selectivity of the undergraduate and doctoral institutions), and whether these changes reflect the improvements in…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Graduate Students, Educational Attainment, Asians
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