Against Three "Cultural" Characters Speaks Self-Improvement: Social Critique and Desires for "Modernity" in Pedagogies of Soft Skills in Contemporary China

Autor/in	Hizi, Gil
Titel	Against Three "Cultural" Characters Speaks Self-Improvement: Social Critique and Desires for "Modernity" in Pedagogies of Soft Skills in Contemporary China
Quelle	In: Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 52 (2021) 3, S.237-253 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Hizi, Gil)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0161-7761
DOI	10.1111/aeq.12366
Schlagwörter	Self Concept; Social Change; Social Behavior; Behavior Standards; Economic Change; Teaching Methods; Soft Skills; Self Actualization; Criticism; Educational Philosophy; Role; Comparative Analysis; Habituation; Ethics; Moral Values; Foreign Countries; Student Attitudes; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Selbstkonzept; Sozialer Wandel; Social behaviour; Soziales Verhalten; Ökonomischer Wandel; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Self actualisation; Selbstverwirklichung; Kritik; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Rollen; Ethik; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Ausland; Schülerverhalten
Abstract	Despite recent socioeconomic transformations, young adults in China construe local social norms as inhibiting their individualized selfhood. Based on a study of pedagogies of interpersonal "soft" skills, this article describes an apparatus of self-improvement where self- and social critique play a pivotal role. Through comparison with Foucault's "technologies of the self," I illustrate that self-improvement in China is largely oriented toward performative expressions that counteract the "local" rather than the habituation of virtues or skills. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01