Power and Moral Education in China

In Powerand Moral Education in China, Wangbei Ye examines China’s recent initiation of school-based curriculum development in moral education as a means to analyze the power redistribution brought about by China’s economic reform. Though there is a great deal of scholarship dealing with moral education in China, the role of power has never been systematically discussed in relation to this topic.

Wangbei Ye is lecturer of the Moral-political Education section in the Department of Political Science at East China Normal University.

Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Power and Curriculum: Western Perspectives Chapter 3: Power and Curriculum in China: The Case of School-based Moral Education Chapter 4: Example 1: State-led Power Decentralization Chapter 5: Example 2: School-led Power Sharing Chapter 6: Example 3: Market-led Power Redistribution Chapter 7: Towards an Understanding of Power as Semi-emancipatory Relation: Comparison and Discussion