Building Resilience of Floating Children and Left-Behind Children in China: Power, Politics, Participation, and Education (Routledge Research in Educational Equality and Diversity)

By: Guanglun Michael Mu

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Synopsis: The past two decades have seen exponential growth of urbanisation and migration in China. Emerging from this growth is a population of floating and left-behind children which is estimated to be approaching 100 million. Due to their increasing risks of undesirable educational and social, as well as health and psychological, outcomes, there is a great urgency to help floating children and left-behind children beat the odds. This book offers an analysis of how oscillations of government discourse have come to shape central and local educational policies regarding the schooling of these children. It also delves into child and youth resilience in this unique migration context, examining what can be done to build up resilience of floating and left-behind children. In this vein, the book will complement current knowledge and advance context- and culture-specific understandings of child and youth resilience through both school-based and community-based approaches. The book aims to answer a fundamental question: How to help floating children and left-behind children become responsive and resilient to structural deficiencies and dynamics in the migration context of China? This is important reading for scholars, school professionals, community workers, and policy makers to better address the social and educational resilience and wellbeing of floating and left-behind children.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781351374255
Related ISBNs:: 9781315148182, 9780367375768, 9780367375768, 9781138552449, 9781138552449
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 03/08/20
Copyrighted By:: Guanglun Michael Mu
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Education, Philosophy, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.