Strengthening and Professionalizing Political Education in China's Higher Education

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ID12422932
AuthorsQinghua Wang (0000-0002-0645-6514, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume22
Issue80
Pages332-350
Publication date2012-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Contemporary China (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1067-0564 • E-ISSN: 1469-9400
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10670564.2012.734086
OpenAlexW2050634260
LanguageEN
Citations received5

Party control over higher education in reform-era China has been a relatively neglected topic in the extant literature. Seeking to remedy this neglect, this article focuses on an aspect of the topic that has remained unstudied in Western scholarship: namely, the post-1989 regime's efforts to strengthen and professionalize political education (PE) in universities by intensifying the ‘disciplinary construction’ of PE. The article finds that these efforts have been partially successful in meeting the regime's objectives. The training of PE teachers has been considerably professionalized; PE courses have become more attractive and effective; and more students tend to accept the Party-sponsored views and policies taught in PE courses, and to support Party leadership

China · Discipline · Extant taxon · Higher education · Pedagogy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Scholarship · Sociology · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Public Administration

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