---------------------------------------------------- Internet Guide for China Studies Newsletter http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ignew.htm ---------------------------------------------------- 14 Jan 2001 (HL) New in IGCS - Education: Educational Disengagement: Undermining Academic Quality at a Chinese University Ed./Corp.: Michael Agelasto, publ. 1998 URL: http://www.paganvillages.com/Goddess/agelasto/disengagement/ Language: English. Self description: "[...T]he most comprehensive study written to date about education at a Chinese university [Shenzhen U. - ed.] [...] The study is the culmination of ten years of participant-observation research and relies on the analysis of hundreds of internal documents. Along with the author's companion study, University in Turmoil, it provides insight into the university's pedagogy and knowledge structure and the foreign influences that have shaped the institution. [...] Michael Agelasto, until his retirement, was an independent scholar specializing in Chinese education and culture. His dissertation explored the use of social relationships (guanxi) in job procurement by Shenzhen University graduates. He was co-editor of the 1998 compilation Higher Education in Post-Mao China [...]." Description: The study is based on the author's six-year employment at Shenzhen University. Site contents: (1) Contents & Preface; (2) Introduction; (3) I. A University in Perspective; (4) II. Students; (5) III. Teachers and Staff; (6) IV. Knowledge Structure; (7) V. Pedagogy; (8) VI. Foreign Things; (9) VII. Output; (10) VIII. Conclusion: Misadventure in Education; (11) References; (12) Index. Note: On-line publication (525 pp.) available in PDF format. Resource suggested via Asian Studies WWW Monitor (11 Jan 2001) by Michael Agelasto. _______________________________________________________ With kind regards, Hanno Lecher ([log in to unmask]) INTERNET GUIDE FOR CHINA STUDIES -- editor http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ _______________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to: [log in to unmask] containing the following message: SIGNOFF IGCS-L