Hui YuSouth China Normal University · School of Education
Hui Yu
BA, M.Ed (BNU), PhD (IOE)
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Introduction
Dr. Hui Yu's research focuses on the analysis of educational policy in China, adopting the works of critical social theorists such as Foucault and Bourdieu. His ongoing project is about rural-to-urban migrant children’s education policy in China.
Skills and Expertise
Education
September 2013 - November 2017
September 2010 - July 2013
September 2006 - July 2010
Publications
Publications (7)
This paper moves beyond a therapeutic perspective in the study of musical performance anxiety (MPA) coping and adopts a social support analytical approach. It explores the collaborative nature of university music students’ MPA coping throughout instrumental/vocal learning and performance preparation. Semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis...
This article focuses on the educational quality of the newly emerged quasi-state schools for rural migrant children in urban China. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 19 government officers, school leaders, teachers and migrant parents in Shanghai. Adopting a theoretical perspective of policy as a temporary settlement of interests, the...
In China, the government had created a policy-friendly educational setting for rural migrant children for a long period after 2001. Yet in 2013, in some metropolitan areas such as Beijing and Shanghai, the schooling policy retuned to more demanding criteria, bringing hardships to many migrant families. This paper examines the power relations underl...
Highlighting the fluid nature of habitus/capital, this paper critiques a ‘rucksack approach’ (Erel, 2010) in the Bourdieusian studies of Chinese migrants’ cultural reproduction and social inclusion, which takes a determinism and fatalism standpoint and neglects the re-structuring of the migrant habitus and cultural capital over generations. Semi-st...
This paper extends existing Bourdieusian theorisations of the educational involvement of working-class parents by adding the less-examined axes of rural origin and migration status with an intersectional approach. It focusses on the ‘labourer’ families involved in internal rural–urban migration in China. Semi-structured interviews were conducted in...
This paper theorises how politics, economy and migrant population policies influence educational policy, utilising Bourdieusian theoretical resources to analyse the Chinese context. It develops the work of Lingard and Rawolle on cross-field effects and produces an updated three-step analytical framework. Taking the policy issue of the schooling of...
