TY - JOUR
AU - Huajun, Zhang
AB - Book Review 547 the marriage between logical reasoning/argumentation and critical analysis of conceptual and empirical knowledge. Having said the above, I do believe some chapters could be strengthened, had the contributors further developed the theoretical basis of their work. In Chapter 16 for example, I was surprised that the authors used the notion of “capital” with no relation to the “field,” in this case the fields of higher education and the labor market. I also wonder whether it is appropriate to use the notion of “agency” in its own right, without debating the tensions between agency and structure. In addition, I consider Bourdieu to be very weak in theorizing gender. It is exciting to read the authors’ attempt to extend Bourdieu’s sociology but the Bourdieusian analysis of gender warrants more justification. In summary, Spotlight on China: Changes in Education under China’s Market Economy is contextually rich, practically insightful, and conceptually thought-provoking. Given these attributes, I do not hesitate to recommend this work to scholars of education, school professionals, and policy makers in China and elsewhere. The volume may also benefit readers, such as postgraduate students, who intend to formulate a panoptic understanding of Chinese education against the backdrop of 
TI - The Chinese continuum of self-cultivation: A Confucian-Deweyan learning model. Christine A. Hale. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. 160pp. (hardcover), £41.99, ISBN: 1-443-885-258.
JF - Frontiers of Education in China
DO - 10.3868/s110-005-016-0043-9
DA - 2016-02-24
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/brill/the-chinese-continuum-of-self-cultivation-a-confucian-deweyan-learning-OV1eEQxH13
SP - 547
EP - 549
VL - 11
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -