{"product_id":"fabricating-an-educational-miracle-9781438460376","title":"Fabricating an Educational Miracle","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIllustrates the changing significance of what it means to be educated, rural, and ethnic in Southwest China.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2017 American Educational Research Association''s Division B Outstanding Book Recognition Award \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2017 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn today''s China, education is translated into both acute social desires and profound disenchantment. Shanghai''s stellar performance in the recent Program for International Student Assessment paints a celebratory image of educational success yet tells only a partial story. For many in rural China who are schooled yet prepared only for factory sweatshops, education remains an elusive ideal and offers a hollowed promise of social mobility. \u003ci\u003eFabricating an Educational Miracle\u003c\/i\u003e laces together complex accounts of how compulsory education produces dilemmas and possibilities in village schools in Southwest China. Drawing from interviews, participant observations, oral history, and archival research in a Miao and a Dong village-town in Qiandongnan Prefecture, Guizhou Province, this book examines the manifold and contradictory agendas that have captured rural ethnic schooling at a crossroads.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039722537303,"sku":"9781438460376","price":65.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fabricating-an-educational-miracle-9781438460376","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}