Books in the Education and Society in China series

Research in school success in contemporary China has argued that market reforms have reproduced the advantages for students from cadre and professional family backgrounds while simultaneously creating new opportunities for children of the new arising economic elites. However, it has performed less for traditional peasant families. This book places a special emphasis on how economic and cultural resources become the main influence on rural students¿ school success, and investigates how families from different social backgrounds within rural society involve themselves in the schooling of their children and how this contributes to different patterns of school success..

This book investigates the interplay between Chinäs social, economic, and educational policy changes, its rural households and urban communities, focusing on the resource-constrained rural environments, limited knowledge networks, and urbanization of parent support, student engagement in learning, teacher and student retention.