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How the Private Sector of Educational Training Is Shaping the Future of Education in China
How the Private Sector of Educational Training Is Shaping the Future of Education in China
Wednesday, 13 July 2016: 14:45
Location: Hörsaal 34 (Main Building)
Oral Presentation
Research on education in China focuses primarily on institutional education and inequalities caused by national policies and class divisions. Few studies have paid attention to a rapidly expanding and potentially extremely influential area of educational consumption in China, i.e. educational training in the private market. The author argues that the consumption of education in the private sector will create even bigger inequalities among the student population in accordance with their consumption capacity in the area of education. This paper is based on case studies of 5 private educational agencies in Beijing. It attempts to link the provsion of educational goods by the private sector to larger structural changes in the domain of education consumption. It hopes to shed light on how the sources of inequality of educational attainment is now shaped by the force of the private education training market, who is more willing to use the most up-to-date technologies and experiment with the most innovative teaching techniques.