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An ethnographic study of ‘Steiner Fever’ in China: Why are Chinese parents turning away from mainstream education towards the holistic ‘way’ of Steiner education?
Sun, Yifan. - : University of Cambridge, 2020. : Faculty of Education, 2020. : Trinity Hall, 2020
Abstract: SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Yifan Sun, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge Title: An ethnographic study of ‘Steiner Fever’ in China: Why are Chinese parents turning away from mainstream education towards the holistic ‘way’ of Steiner education? In recent years, China has seen a major expansion of alternative education, an aspect of which is the ‘Steiner Fever’, which refers to Steiner (Waldorf) education’s rapid growth in this country. Steiner education (providing early childhood, elementary and secondary education) as an alternative education model, aims to promote the development of a child’s natural curiosity and capacities while also stimulating intellectual awareness in order to develop the 'whole child' (Oberman, 2007). There is a general lack of scholarship on alternative education in China, in particular, Steiner education in China is little understood. I approached this study with an overarching question: What is at stake in the feverish manner in which Steiner education has been embraced in China? Guided by the research aims and my research questions, I attempted to explore ‘Steiner Fever’ by investigating choices, perceptions and experiences of parents and teachers in relation to Steiner education in China. I have taken a transdisciplinary, dialectical approach, with a conceptual framework inspired by the notion of ‘Tao’ in which events are never thought of as occurring in isolation but embedded in a meaningful whole. The research employed a two-sited ethnographic design, and I spent four months each at two Steiner schools in China in 2017. The data generation methods included interviews with parents and teachers and participant observations. Thematic analysis was used for data analysis. I have examined the push and pull factors related to parents’ and teachers’ choices, the complexity and dilemmas in their experience of Steiner education, as well as how they conceptualised the relationship between Steiner education principles and traditional Chinese values. Guided by my conceptual framework, I have discussed the findings at both the micro level, namely, parents’ and teachers’ decision-making and experiences related to Steiner education, and at the macro level, that is, educational context, society and values, including the dysfunction of mainstream education and the spiritual crisis in the wider materialism-oriented society in China. Steiner’s focus on the organic unfolding of an individual’s spirit appears to be in line with Taoist and Confucian thinking. I have argued that Steiner education offers a potential pathway for Chinese people to reconnect with aspects of their own traditional ways of being, which had become dis-embedded in the course of the modernisation process. This project is an important piece of research for the understanding of parental school choice in China. It contributes to the under-researched field of alternative education and holistic education in China. This study is also of vital significance to Chinese education and its rediscovery and embracing of its own philosophical tradition. ; Chinese Scholarship Council
Keyword: Alternative Education; China; Chinese education; Ethnography; Holistic Education; Parental Choice of School; School Choice; Southern Epistemologies; Spirituality; Steiner Education; Taoist Epistemology; Traditional Chinese Epistemologies; transdisciplinarity; Transdisciplinary; Waldorf Education
URL: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.48563
https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/301491
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Tides of the changing same : race, class, gender and school choice in neoliberal times ...
Mott, Michelle Lea; 0000-0002-4187-1924. - : The University of Texas at Austin, 2019
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Bildungsforschung mit Daten der amtlichen Statistik ; Educational research with data of official statistics
In: Fickermann, Detlef [Hrsg.]; Weishaupt, Horst [Hrsg.]: Bildungsforschung mit Daten der amtlichen Statistik. Münster ; New York : Waxmann 2019, S. 11-18. - (Die Deutsche Schule, Beiheft; 14) (2019)
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Bildungsforschung mit Daten der amtlichen Statistik
Fickermann, Detlef Hrsg.; Weishaupt, Horst Hrsg.. - : Waxmann, 2019. : Münster, 2019. : New York, 2019. : pedocs-Dokumentenserver/DIPF, 2019
In: Münster ; New York : Waxmann 2019, 267 S. - (Die Deutsche Schule, Beiheft; 14) (2019)
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Tides of the changing same : race, class, gender and school choice in neoliberal times
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Escolha profissional e perspectivas de futuro na docência: uma análise a partir da subjetividade dos professores
In: Revista Observatório ; 2 ; 4 ; 419-441 (2017)
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客語生活學校中閩南籍女性教師的語言適應歷程 ; The Llanguage Adaptation Process of Minnan Female Teachers in Hakka Language-living School
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Transnationales Humankapital und soziale Ungleichheit - eine qualitative Studie über elterliche Motive für die Wahl bilingualer Grundschulen
In: 31 ; Berliner Studien zur Soziologie Europas / Berlin Studies on the Sociology of Europe (BSSE) ; 57 (2014)
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Valeur symbolique de la langue au Pays basque français et choix de l'école pour les enfants de couples linguistiquement mixtes
In: Langage et société, n 147, 1, 2014-03-01, pp.67-82 (2014)
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Academic Work Ethic: Predicating Student Assignment Choice and Evaluating the Academic Work Ethic-Student Measure
In: Doctoral Dissertations (2013)
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Potential and limitations of peace education in Israel. A case study on parents’ perspectives on the Hand in Hand school in Jerusalem
Cölsch, Nele. - : Centaurus-Verl., 2011. : Freiburg, Br., 2011. : pedocs-Dokumentenserver/DIPF, 2011
In: Freiburg, Br. : Centaurus-Verl. 2011, 119 S. - (Gender and Diversity; 3) (2011)
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Potential and limitations of peace education in Israel. A case study on parents’ perspectives on the Hand in Hand school in Jerusalem ...
Cölsch, Nele. - : Centaurus-Verl., 2011
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Pathos : a metaphoric exploration of cannibalistic, gluttonous and consumptive impulses in fiction writing
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Pädagogische Probleme in der Berufsorientierung türkischer Jugendlicher
In: Heid, Helmut [Hrsg.]; Wolfgang Klafki [Hrsg.]: Arbeit - Bildung - Arbeitslosigkeit. Beiträge zum 9. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft vom 26. - 28. März 1984 in der Universität Kiel. Weinheim ; Basel : Beltz 1985, S. 337-358. - (Zeitschrift für Pädagogik, Beiheft; 19) (1985)
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