Introduction to education for rural Muslim Hui -- Education for ethnic minorities in China : policies and practices -- Ethnicity, ethnic identity, and state schooling for ethnic minorities -- Discipline as teaching : construction of an educated identity -- From aspiration to participation : confusions and struggles in a time of transition -- Negotiating state schooling : an unpredictable educational journey to prosperity -- Education for Muslim Hui youth at a crossroads
Summary
Annotation This text examines how state schooling in China has economically, culturally, and ideologically had an impact on and gradually transformed a traditional Muslim Hui village in rural Northwestern China. By discussing the interpretation and appropriation of dominant educational discourse of 'quality' in the rural context, it illustrates the dichotomies of poverty and prosperity, civility and uncivility, and religiosity and secularity as they are perceived and understood by teachers, parents and students