Growing Up In The People S Republic

Author : W. Ye,Ye Weili,Ma Xiaodong
Publisher : Springer
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781403982070

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Growing Up in the People’s Republic by W. Ye,Ye Weili,Ma Xiaodong Pdf

In a conversational style and in chronological sequence, Ye Weili and Ma Xiaodong recount their earlier lives in China from the 1950s to the 1980s, a particularly eventful period that included the catastrophic Cultural Revolution. Using their own stories as two case studies, they examine the making of a significant yet barely understood generation in recent Chinese history. They also reflect upon the mixed legacy of the early decades of the People's Republic of China (PRC). In doing so, the book strives for a balance between critical scrutiny of a complex era and the sweeping rejection of that era that recent victim literature embraces. Ultimately Ye and Ma intend to reconnect themselves to a piece of land and a period of history that have given them a sense of who they are. Their stories contain intertwining layers of personal, generational, and historical experiences. Unlike other memoirs that were written soon after the events of the Cultural Revolution, Ye and Ma's narratives have been put together some twenty years later, allowing for more critical distance. The passage of time has allowed them to consider important issues that other accounts omit, such as the impact of gender during this period of radical change in Chinese women's lives.

Author : Xiao-lei Wang
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847695673

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Growing up with Three Languages by Xiao-lei Wang Pdf

This book is based on an eleven-year observation of two children who were simultaneously exposed to three languages from birth. It tells the story of two parents from different cultural, linguistic, and ethnic-racial backgrounds who joined to raise their two children with their heritage languages outside their native countries. It also tells the children’s story and the way they negotiated three cultures and languages and developed a trilingual identity. It sheds light on how parental support contributed to the children’s simultaneous acquisition of three languages in an environment where the main input of the two heritage languages came respectively from the father and from the mother. It addresses the challenges and the unique language developmental characteristics of the two children during their trilingual acquisition process.

Author : Harriet Evans,Stephanie Donald
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 0847695115

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Picturing Power in the People's Republic of China by Harriet Evans,Stephanie Donald Pdf

Provides an innovative reinterpretation of the cultural revolution through the medium of the poster -- a major component of popular print culture in China.

Author : Jennifer S. Light
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780262539012

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States of Childhood by Jennifer S. Light Pdf

A number of curious communities sprang up across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: simulated cities, states, and nations in which children played the roles of legislators, police officers, bankers, journalists, shopkeepers, and other adults. They performed real work—passing laws, growing food, and constructing buildings, among other tasks—inside virtual worlds. In this book, Jennifer Light examines the phenomena of “junior republics” and argues that they marked the transition to a new kind of “sheltered” childhood for American youth. Banished from the labor force and public life, children inhabited worlds that mirrored the one they had left. Light describes the invention of junior republics as independent institutions and how they were later established at schools, on playgrounds, in housing projects, and on city streets, as public officials discovered children's role playing helped their bottom line. The junior republic movement aligned with cutting-edge developmental psychology and educational philosophy, and complemented the era's fascination with models and miniatures, shaping educational and recreational programs across the nation. Light's account of how earlier generations distinguished "real life" from role playing reveals a hidden history of child labor in America and offers insights into the deep roots of such contemporary concepts as gamification, play labor, and virtuality.

Author : Robb Johnson
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781629638119

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People's Republic of Neverland by Robb Johnson Pdf

There once was a time when teachers and communities were able to exercise democratic control over their schools. Now that power has been taken away, both centralised and privatised, under the guise of “reform.” There is a forgotten history of the time before reform, and within it a bright horizon is visible, reachable only if educators and society at large can learn the lessons of the past. Robb Johnson entered the classroom as a new teacher in the 1980s and has spent a lifetime alongside his pupils encouraging both creativity and a healthy distrust of authority. This book is both memoir and polemic, a celebration of children’s innate desire to learn, share, cooperate, and play, as well as a critique of bureaucratic interference. Johnson details how we ended up with the contemporary mass education systems and why they continually fail to give children what they need. Combining practical experience as a teacher with detailed pedagogical knowledge, and a characteristic playful style, Johnson is both court chronicler and jester, imparting information and creatively admonishing the self-important figureheads of the reform agenda. This book considers how schools and education relate to the wider society in which they are located and how they relate to the particular needs and abilities of the people who experience them. It shows that schools and education are contested spaces that need to be reclaimed from the state, and turned into places where people can grow, not up, not old, but as individuals. It offers alternative ways of running classrooms, schools, and perhaps even society.

Author : Nirmala Rao,Jing Zhou,Jin Sun
Publisher : Springer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789402410044

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Early Childhood Education in Chinese Societies by Nirmala Rao,Jing Zhou,Jin Sun Pdf

This book provides an up-to-date account of relevant early childhood policy and practice in five Chinese societies: the People’s Republic of China or Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore, and Taiwan. It analyses how traditional Chinese values, Eastern and Western curricular approaches, and socio-political, economic, cultural and demographic changes influence current policies, services and practice. It addresses responses to global concerns about the excluded and disadvantaged, and about quality, and explains lessons from and for Chinese early childhood education. divThis book is the first English-language research-based review of early childhood education and the factors that affect it in different Chinese societies. It is particularly timely given the increased recognition of the importance of early childhood education for human capital development globally, and the international interest in understanding early education in Chinese societies.iv>

Author : Homa Sabet Tavangar
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780345506542

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Growing Up Global by Homa Sabet Tavangar Pdf

In today’s increasingly interconnected world, how do we prepare our children to succeed and to become happy, informed global citizens? A mother of three, Homa Sabet Tavangar has spent her career helping governments develop globally oriented programs and advising businesses on how to thrive abroad. In Growing Up Global, Tavangar shares with all of us her “parenting toolbox” to help give our children a vital global perspective. Whether you’re mastering a greeting in ten different languages, throwing an internationally themed birthday party, or celebrating a newfound holiday, Growing Up Global provides parents and children with a rich, exciting background for exploring and connecting with far-flung nations they may have only heard about on television. Inside you’ll discover • fun activities, games, and suggestions for movies, music, books, magazines, service activities, and websites for expanding your family’s worldview • simple explanations that will help your children grasp the diversity of world faiths • creative ways to gain geography literacy • handy lists of celebrations and customs that offer a fascinating look at how people from different cultures around the world live everyday life Growing Up Global is a book that parents, grandparents, and teachers can turn to again and again for inspiration and motivation as they strive to open the minds of children everywhere.

Author : Sing Lau
Publisher : Chinese University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9622016596

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Growing Up the Chinese Way by Sing Lau Pdf

This volume is a collection of current research on Chinese child development: the context of development, cognitive development, social development, and new issues related to the topic.

Author : American Delegation on Early Childhood D,American Delegation on Early Childhood Development in the People's Republic of China
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300019173

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Childhood in China by American Delegation on Early Childhood D,American Delegation on Early Childhood Development in the People's Republic of China Pdf

A professional study team's observations on and evaluations of the development of Chinese children in the home, nursery, kindergarten, and primary and middle schools, language development and education in China, and delivery of health care to Chinese children

Author : Mischa Honeck,James Marten
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108478533

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War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars by Mischa Honeck,James Marten Pdf

This innovative book reveals children's experiences and how they became victims and actors during the twentieth century's biggest conflicts.

Author : Louisa Lim
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780199347704

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The People's Republic of Amnesia by Louisa Lim Pdf

An NPR correspondent explains how the Tiananmen Square massacre changed China, and how China changed the events of that day by rewriting its own history.

Author : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : World politics
ISBN : OSU:32435063627145

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Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts by United States. Central Intelligence Agency Pdf

Author : Maureen O'Connor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781610691468

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Life Stories by Maureen O'Connor Pdf

Memoirs, autobiographies, and diaries represent the most personal and most intimate of genres, as well as one of the most abundant and popular. Gain new understanding and better serve your readers with this detailed genre guide to nearly 700 titles that also includes notes on more than 2,800 read-alike and other related titles. The popularity of this body of literature has grown in recent years, and it has also diversified in terms of the types of stories being told—and persons telling them. In the past, readers' advisors have depended on access by names or Dewey classifications and subjects to help readers find autobiographies they will enjoy. This guide offers an alternative, organizing the literature according to popular genres, subgenres, and themes that reflect common reading interests. Describing titles that range from travel and adventure classics and celebrity autobiographies to foodie memoirs and environmental reads, Life Stories: A Guide to Reading Interests in Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Diaries presents a unique overview of the genre that specifically addresses the needs of readers' advisors and others who work with readers in finding books.

Author : Diana Lary
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009081016

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China's Grandmothers by Diana Lary Pdf

Over the past century and a half, China has experienced foreign invasion, warfare, political turmoil, and revolution, along with massive economic and technological change. Through all this change, there is one stable element: grandmothers, as child carers, household managers, religious devotees, transmitters of culture, and, above all, sources of love, warmth, and affection. In this interdisciplinary and longitudinal study, China's Grandmothers sheds light on the status and lives of grandmothers in China over the years from the late Qing Dynasty to the twenty-first century. Combining a wide range of historical and biographical materials, Diana Lary explores the changes and continuities in the lives of grandmothers through revolution, wars, and radical upheaval to the present phase of economic growth. Informed by her own experience as a grandchild and grandmother, Lary offers a fresh and compelling way of looking at gender, family, and ageing in modern Chinese society.

Author : Karen Wells
Publisher : Polity
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745638379

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Childhood in Global Perspective by Karen Wells Pdf

This compelling new book offers a unique global perspective on children’s lives throughout the world. It shows how the notion of childhood is being radically re-shaped, in part as a consequence of globalization. Taking an engaging historical and comparative approach, the book discusses wide-ranging issues such as children and war, child labour and young people’s activism around the globe. Important themes considered include: How children are constituted as raced, classed and gendered subjects; How family policy results in some kinds of family being labelled as normal and others as deviant, and how this impacts in children; How children’s involvement in war is connected to the globalization of capitalism and organised crime; How school and work operate as sites for the governing of childhood. This book will be of great value to students and scholars in the fields of sociology, social policy and development studies. It will also be a valuable companion to practitioners of international development and social work, as well as to anyone interested in childhood in the contemporary world.