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Building Resilience of Floating Children and Left-Behind Children in China

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Building Resilience of Floating Children and Left-Behind Children in China

Power, Politics, Participation, and Education
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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.

Author Biography:

Guanglun Michael Mu is Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow in the School of Teacher Education and Leadership at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. His research interests include sociology of education, quantitative research, child and youth resilience, as well as the learning and socialisation of Chinese diaspora.
Release date Australia
January 15th, 2018
Audience
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations
11 Tables, black and white; 27 Line drawings, black and white; 5 Halftones, black and white
Pages
236
ISBN-13
9781138552449
Product ID
27779145

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