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Direct linkLi Zhao; Weihao Yan; Junjie Peng; Paul L. Harris – Child Development, 2025
This research with two studies examined whether young children's moral judgments of honesty and dishonesty predict their actual cheating behavior. Participants were 200 children aged 3-6 years (2021-2022. Study 1: N = 80, M[subscript age] = 4.96, 40 girls; Study 2: N = 120, M[subscript age] = 4.98, 60 girls; all middle-class Han Chinese). Children…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Decision Making, Cheating, Young Children
Wanru Xu; Bram Spruyt – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2025
Over the past decade, dissatisfied with mainstream education, some Chinese middle-class parents have migrated to Dali in search of lifestyle changes and alternative education for their children. Building on this phenomenon, this study draws on interviews with 45 parents and on-site observations to explore the temporal dimension of their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle Class, Parent Attitudes, Educational Attitudes
Ewan Wright – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2025
This article applies positional conflict theory to investigate how the proliferation of international schools can create a new layer of educational stratification and deepen inequality of opportunity. Data from five international schools in metropolitan centres across southern China were collected through interviews, school visits, and a survey.…
Descriptors: International Schools, Equal Education, Middle Class, Advantaged
Yan Li – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2025
This paper explores how middle-class mothers' involvement in and how the meanings of a public school choice are shaped by the class differences in cultural capital and economic capital between the mother and father within one family. It examines the practices of choosing a public school that shapes a middle-class mother, rather than the school…
Descriptors: Social Class, Social Differences, Middle Class, Mother Attitudes
Manli Xue; Haiying Wang; Yuqi Wang; Xuefeng Qiao – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2025
This study explores the complex emotional landscape of Chinese middle-class parents in educational investment, focusing on the paradoxical interplay of confidence and anxiety. Through in-depth interviews with 16 parents in Nanjing, we employed Bourdieu's concepts of illusio and 'capital' to examine how personal emotions, family resources, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Aspiration, Social Capital, Cultural Capital
Keyu Zhai; Kang Cao – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2025
Although there is an abundance of research on international students' study and life experiences in the receiving countries and their post-study labour market outcomes in the sending countries, the motivations to study in a specific country have rarely been studied. Based on the theoretically grounded analysis, this article aims to explore the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Foreign Students, Student Mobility
