The Chinese Dream: Educating the Future

Michael A. Peters is Distinguished Professor at Beijing Normal University, China, and Emeritus Professor in Educational Policy, Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He is the executive editor of the journal Educational Philosophy and Theory.

Preface



Part 1: The Chinese Dream
1. Introduction: From National Humiliation to World Power
2. The Path to Chinese Modernity: Philosophical and Historical Narratives of the Chinese Dream
3. The Chinese Dream: Xi Jinping thought on Socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era
4. China Open, America Closed (with Tien-Hui Chiang)



Part 2: The American Dream5. Conflicting Narratives of the American Dream: Obama’s Equality of Opportunity and Trump’s “Make America Great Again”
The Emergent Chinese Techno-State
6. China’s double first-class university strategy: 双一流 (with Tina Besley)
7. Social governance, education and socialist rule of law in China (with Zhu Hongwen)
8. Trade wars, technology transfer, and the future Chinese techno-state



Part 3: Future Challenges
9. ‘Intelligent capitalism’ and the disappearance of labour (with Zhao Wei)
10. Technological Unemployment: Educating for the Fourth Industrial Revolution



Postscript: Educating the Future
Index