Class Consciousness Construction of Rural Migrant Children in China
Seeking the Alternative Way Out in Meritocratic Schooling
Samenvatting
• Based on an ethnographic-oriented qualitative study conducted in both the public school and the private migrant school in Beijing, China for more than eight months
• Draws researchers’ attention to going beyond the rural-urban divide discourse currently overly used in the studies of rural migrant children, and brings the class perspective into the field.
• Re-examines the applicability of Freirean theoretical framework in understanding the oppressed group’s consciousness construction in the Chinese context
• Offers an alternative perspective to reason the difficulties in class consciousness or critical consciousness construction among migrant workers or other oppressed groups through drawing attention to the constructive process in the childhood and influential contexts of family, school and community