Competition and Compassion in Chinese Secondary Education

by Xu Zhao

Competition and Compassion in Chinese Secondary Education examines the nature of academic competition in Chinese schools and demonstrates its debilitating effects on adolescents' psychosocial development. Zhao shows how global economic competition induces changes in national education policies, which in turn shapes how school-age youth are encouraged by their parents and teachers to relate to others and society. Facing extreme pressures of global...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113747940X
• ISBN13: 9781137479402
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"