Test Scores, Identities, and Cultural Possibilities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21581970 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M W Apple (0000-0001-8459-8238, Beijing Normal University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 522-531 |
| Publication date | 2021-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0895-9048 • E-ISSN: 1552-3896 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0895904820904948 |
| OpenAlex | W3005826707 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 24 |
In my Reviewing Policy section of this journal I have often analyzed a number of significant books that focus on other nations. Such an international agenda is important. Analytically such a wider perspective provides fresh insights into the lenses we employ to understand crucial sets of social relations that are created by and create educational and larger dynamics. This international view has now taken a very interesting turn with the publication of Paul Willis’s newest book, Being Modern in China: A Western Cultural Analysis of Modernity, Tradition and Schooling in China Today. At the center of his analysis is the public school and especially the power of the national examinations in China as both structures that divide populations but also as powerful devices that embody identities both now and in the future. But it is much more than this. With its primary focus on both commodified and lived youth cultures, the book constitutes a substantive contribution to the questioning of the orthodox view of economic determinism within the political economy of education. Given this, it is definitely worth reading the book, but it is important to remember that this is indeed a “western” analysis
China · Commodification · Determinism · Economy · Epistemology · Media studies · Modernity · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities · Law
From “Teach For America” to “Teach For China”
The Long Revolution
Official Knowledge
Lost Youth in the Global City
Learning to Labour
Education and Power
Learning to Labor
Working-class culture
The Empire Strikes Back?
The arts in class reproduction
Ethnographic Imagination
The Strong State and Curriculum Reform
Learning to Labor in New Times
Ideology and Curriculum
Unemployment
The Politics, Practices, and Possibilities of Migrant Children Schools in Contemporary China
Learning to Labour in China
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |