Migrant Workers’ Education in China: Changing discourses & practices
17 November 12-1pm GMT
Hybrid public seminar and book launch
Dr Fusheng Jia, Literacy and Development Group, UEA
Chair, Anna Robinson-Pant, UEA
Respondent: Lindsay Howard, UEA
Based on an extended period of ethnographic research and observation of migrant workers’ educational programmes, this presentation will offer a theoretical exploration of social and educational issues in an industrialised area in south China. Fushen Jia highlights the tensions existing between the traditional ideology stressing collectivism, selfless devotion and teacher-centred teaching, and the new social practices promoting commercialisation, personal development and interactive teaching.
Thomas Paine Study Centre (TPSC) Room 2.04, University of East Anglia, Norwich UK
Zoom link: bit.ly/EducationChina