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Exploration and Rethinking: Children-Voice Studies in China
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KAN Wei
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2016.05.011
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Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
ABSTRACT
This paper reviews children-voice studies in mainland China over the past 10 years in the context of the globalisation era. The traditional grand narrative in the field of contemporary education research in China has been challenged by individual recounts and by concernsregarding the situation in the classroom, which is reflected in the children-voice studies conducted by young researchers. The paper begins with background regarding society, culture, and schooling, continues on to describe related studies in this field, and ends with a rethinking of current research. The conclusion is that the studies were hampered both by an inherited culture of inertia and cynicism towards students’ voices and by a dysfunction in research methodology.
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children-voice, grand narrative, methodology
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YANG, D. P. (2000). Justice of education and equal opportunities. Beijing: Higher Education Press.
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Zhang, K., Li, D., & Beck, E. J. (1999). Changing sexual attitudes and behavior in China: Implications for the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. Aids Care, (11),581-589.
ZHANG, P. C. (2014). A juvenile under the kite: Series stories of small warrior of Red Army during 1927-1937. Guangzhou: New Century Press.
ZHANG, Y. (2003). Listen to the voices of “special” pupils. Curriculum, Teaching Material and Method, (8), 54-55.
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ZHONG, S. H. (Ed.). (1985). A series of book walking toward to world. Changsha: yuelu Institute.
ZHOU, Z. R. (2006). Narrative: From the perspectives of the editor of tabloid newspaper of Red Guard, 40 years anniversary of memorial ceremony for culture revolution. Fort Worth TX: Fellows Press of America.