Chinese Adolescents' Struggle in Online Compulsory Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Foucauldian Perspective

Autor/inn/en	Liu, Jindong; Wu, Biying; Qu, Jiayu
Titel	Chinese Adolescents' Struggle in Online Compulsory Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Foucauldian Perspective
Quelle	In: Education and Information Technologies, 27 (2022) 2, S.1705-1723 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Wu, Biying)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1360-2357
DOI	10.1007/s10639-021-10688-9
Schlagwörter	Online Courses; COVID-19; Pandemics; Adolescents; Power Structure; Secondary School Students; Grade 7; Grade 8; Grade 9; Grade 10; Grade 11; Grade 12; Discipline; Educational Technology; Personal Autonomy; Self Control; Foreign Countries; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Online course; Online-Kurs; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Sekundarschüler; School year 07; 7. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 07; School year 08; 8. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 08; School year 09; 9. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 09; School year 11; 11. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 11; School year 12; 12. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 12; Disziplin; Unterrichtsmedien; Individuelle Autonomie; Selbstbeherrschung; Ausland
Abstract	To tackle the debate surrounding the tension between knowledge and power in online education for adolescents and between freedom and control at large, this study examines how disciplinary power was exercised and resisted in a Chinese setting of online compulsory education during the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020. Overall, 60 participants, including students (from Grade 7 to 12), their parents, and teachers joined in our focus groups or individual interviews in a secondary school in Xi'an, China. By following Foucault's concepts of three techniques of disciplinary power: hierarchical observation, normalizing judgement and examination, we identified four themes based on the data--(1) diminished discipline with the dissolving boundary, (2) reconfigured disciplinary power by teachers, (3) self-discipline as a vital skill, and (4) online compulsory education as a future trend. Interpretations from the Foucauldian perspective were presented, suggesting that most adolescents depend upon more external disciplines from schools and teachers, while only a few may achieve autonomy through self-discipline. (As Provided).
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Update	2022/4/11