Ebook: Competition and compassion in Chinese secondary education
Author: Zhao Xu
- Tags: Education Secondary -- Social aspects -- China, Academic achievement -- Social aspects -- China, Educational psychology -- China, Competition (Psychology), EDUCATION / Educational Psychology, EDUCATION / Multicultural Education, EDUCATION / Students & Student Life, PSYCHOLOGY / Education & Training, EDUCATION / Secondary, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Adolescent, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, Academic achievement -- Social aspects, Education Secondary -- Social aspects, Educational psychology, China
- Series: Palgrave studies on Chinese education in a global perspective.
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- City: China.
- Edition: First edition.
- Language: English
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"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-aged youth are encouraged by their parents and teachers to relate to others and society. Read more...