Rebels Against What? Understanding '98Five' and Their Identity Construction in the Chinese Context of World-Class University Movement

反抗什么？

• 批准号: 2612363
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Durham University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2612363
• 关键词: Rebels; Against; What; Understanding; 98Five

This research will investigate a group of Chinese higher education students who identify themselves as'98five(s)' - trash or losers at elite 'Project 985' universities. The term '98five' generally refers to first generationcollege students from under-developed areas who experienced an identity shift fromsuccessful learners to 'losers'. They established an online discussion group where they can share theirexperiences as '985 losers' to emotionally support each other. This research seeks to explore the identityconstruction of 98fives and how their identities influence their 'choice' of being resistant to the dominantdiscourses of 'meritocracy' and 'self as human capital' in contemporary Chinese society. Digitalethnography will be used to study 98fives' online engagement and interaction. This research will gobeyond (a) the rural-urban division to incorporate the disadvantaged urban young people, and (b)Bourdieu's cultural-reproductive model to highlight how the Party-State's interventionist policies serve toshape the reproductive functions of higher education. This research will demonstrate that the Party-Statehas endeavoured to create the policy discourse of 'high-level talents with Chinese features', in whichgenerating (STEM) human capital and patriotic socialist citizens through 'world-class' higher educationare main concerns. This discourse has been working with the traditional discourse of Confucianmeritocracy to marginalise human agency, particularly those from disadvantaged socio-economicbackgrounds who aspire for social mobility through participation in elite higher education. Therefore, thisresearch will present a challenge for educational policy makers to move beyond instrumental discoursesand develop more humanistic discourses in which young people' agency freedom can be augmented.

这项研究将调查一群中国高等教育学生，他们将自己视为98five' - 精英'985'大学的垃圾或失败者。 “ 98five”一词通常是指来自欠发达地区的第一代学生，他们经历了从成功的学习者到“失败者”的身份转变。他们建立了一个在线讨论小组，他们可以将自己的经验分享为“ 985个失败者”，以相互支持。这项研究旨在探索98fives的身份建设，以及它们的身份如何影响他们对“精英统治”和“自我作为人力资本”在当代中国社会中的占主导地位的“选择”。数字表格将用于研究98fives的在线参与和互动。这项研究将戈威蒙德（a）纳入弱势城市年轻人的农村城市部，以及（b）布迪厄的文化生产模型，以突出党派国家的干预主义政策如何为Toshape提供高等教育的生殖功能。这项研究将表明，党派努力通过“世界一流的”高等教育的主要关注点来创建“具有中国特征的高级才能”的政策论述。这种论述一直在与传统的儒家派遣论述，以使人类机构边缘化，尤其是那些来自处境不利的社会经济背景的人，他们通过参加精英高等教育而渴望社会流动性。因此，本研究将为教育政策制定者提出一个挑战，即使他们超越工具性论述，并发展更多的人文话语，其中年轻人的代理自由可以得到增强。