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Author / Creator:	Zhao, Xu, 1970 June 30- author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. ©2015
Description:	xx, 192 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Palgrave studies on Chinese education in a global perspective Palgrave studies on Chinese education in a global perspective
Subject:	Education, Secondary -- Social aspects -- China. Academic achievement -- Social aspects -- China. Educational psychology -- China. Competition (Psychology) Academic achievement -- Social aspects. Competition (Psychology) Education, Secondary -- Social aspects. Educational psychology. China.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10390248

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ISBN:	9781137479402 113747940X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Competition and Compassion in Chinese Secondary Education examines the nature of academic competition in Chinese schools and demonstrates its debilitating effects on adolescents' psychosocial development. Zhao shows how global economic competition induces changes in national education policies, which in turn shapes how school-aged youth are encouraged by their parents and teachers to relate to others and society. Facing extreme pressures of global economic competition, how can education both in the East and West sustain the kind of humanistic learning that is critical for promoting public reasoning or discourse? The book proposes a research-based approach for balancing academic achievement with the promotion of social and civic engagement in China and elsewhere"-- "Competition and Compassion in Chinese Secondary Education examines the nature of academic competition in Chinese schools and documents its debilitating effects on Chinese adolescents' social, moral, and civic development. Using the careful interpretation of empirical data, Zhao shows how global economic competition induces changes in national education policies, which in turn shapes how school-aged youth relate to others and society"--

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