Teaching a minimal citizenship in China: Testing, official discourse, and teacher agency

Jiang, Jia

doi:10.1016/j.tate.2021.103441

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“…This article also demonstrated that the students in this Chinese university are brought into reflection on mediating the ideological pressures with personal subjectivity, which is to some extent produced by university teachers’ multifaced identities in China. Teachers’ practice of IaPE was constrained by the social structures and the official discourse, but they still had space to decide how to teach based on the nature of teachers’ agency (Jiang, 2021).…”

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Active participants but confused minds: university students’ perceptions of citizenship learning experiences in Chinese higher education

Zhang

2023

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Purpose There is widespread debate about the nationalistic top-down approach of citizenship education. By using the notion of cultural citizenship as a useful theoretical lens, citizenship education research tends to focus on the process of subjectivity construction among students’ citizenship learning process. The Communist Party of China plays a dominant role in cultivating citizens in the form of ideological and political education (IaPE) in Chinese universities. The research problem thus focuses on the dynamics and complexity of how Chinese university students construct their subjectivities regarding citizenship learning through IaPE. The main purpose of the study is to provide some research directions for understanding students’ citizenship learning today. Design/methodology/approach With the case study of one university in China and interview data from 25 students, this paper examines the ways in which students understand and respond to dominant discourses. Findings The findings revealed there is a deficit of citizenship learning in IaPE, and students felt ideologically pressurized. This study suggests students’ complex subjectivities of active participants but confused minds as a phenomenon in Chinese higher education, in which they must involve in IaPE for personal academic and career development, while they adopted covert strategies for self-conscious citizenship learning expectations. These strategies took the form ranging from obediently completing basic curriculum requirements and distancing away by studying abroad, to actively searching for learning opportunities from other courses and media society. Originality/value This paper contributes to citizenship education research by recognizing the complexities of how subjectivities are formed in formal university settings.

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Active participants but confused minds: university students’ perceptions of citizenship learning experiences in Chinese higher education

Zhang

2023

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Hybridization of curriculum integration and high-stakes testing: Chinese teachers’ experiences and struggles in handling competing institutional logics

Lu²

2022

Teaching and Teacher Education

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Promoting pre-service teachers’ learning performance and perceptions of inclusive education: An augmented reality-based training through learning by design approach

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Luo

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Teaching and Teacher Education

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Teaching a minimal citizenship in China: Testing, official discourse, and teacher agency

Cited by 8 publications

References 45 publications

Active participants but confused minds: university students’ perceptions of citizenship learning experiences in Chinese higher education

Active participants but confused minds: university students’ perceptions of citizenship learning experiences in Chinese higher education

Hybridization of curriculum integration and high-stakes testing: Chinese teachers’ experiences and struggles in handling competing institutional logics

Promoting pre-service teachers’ learning performance and perceptions of inclusive education: An augmented reality-based training through learning by design approach

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