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摘要
中国的择校政策旨在通过限制择校来实现教育公平。同步入学改革(Synchronous Admission Reform,以下简称SAR)是中国最近的一项择校改革,它继续限制家长的自主权,加强学校资源的平等分配。本研究探讨了中国中产阶级家长(21 人)在 SAR 中的公平诉求。研究结果显示了家长的三种分配正义诉求,包括分配的情境原则、分配的制度偏袒和分配的企业家代表。每种主张都包含对教育公平的相互矛盾的解释。家长们既羡慕特区的平等承诺,也承认目前学校发展的不平衡,并以功利的方式囤积机会。尽管他们抱怨特区在制度上的偏袒,但也承认特区的政治代表性。家长们没有参与政策网络,而是采取了一种不遵守规则的创业方式。在竞争激烈、利益攸关的教育环境中,政策话语、学校差距以及家长的能动性相互作用,形成了家长们自相矛盾的话语。我们的分析为政策制定者和实践者提供了一个微观社会心理视角,以了解日常话语中的教育公平问题。
Negotiating educational equities: Chinese middle-class parents’ distributive justice claims to school choice reform
School choice policy in China aims to achieve educational equity by limiting school choice. Synchronous Admission Reform (SAR hereafter) is a recent school choice reform in China, which continues to limit parents’ autonomy and strengthen the equal distribution of school resources. This study explores Chinese middle-class parents’ (n = 21) justice claims in SAR. The findings suggest parents’ three distributive justice claims, including situational principles of distribution, institutional partiality in distribution, and entrepreneurship representative of distribution. Each claim contains contradictory interpretations of education equity. While parents admire SAR’s egalitarian promise, they recognize the present unbalanced school development and engage in a meritocratic way of hoarding opportunities. Despite their complaints over SAR’s institutional partiality, they acknowledge SAR’s political representation. Instead of participating in policy networks, parents adopt an entrepreneurial way of non-compliance. Parents’ contradictory discourse is shaped by an interplay of policy discourse, school gaps, and parents’ agency in a competitive and high-stakes education environment. Our analysis offers a micro-psychosocial lens for policymakers and practitioners to understand educational equity in everyday discourses.
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The Asia Pacific Education Review (APER) aims to stimulate research, encourage academic exchange, and enhance the professional development of scholars and other researchers who are interested in educational and cultural issues in the Asia Pacific region. APER covers all areas of educational research, with a focus on cross-cultural, comparative and other studies with a broad Asia-Pacific context.
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