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- Title
Governing Olympic education: Technologies of policy announcements and outsourcing.
- Authors
Zhang, Honglu; Powell, Darren
- Abstract
The Chinese government views the Olympic Games as a critical platform to present national pride on a global scale. Olympic education also has an important role to play for China, as it is a requirement for any Olympic host country. In the context or preparations for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, this original ethnographic research examines the governance of Olympic education, with a focus on how relationships between China's government and a range of stakeholders (e.g. private sectors, academics, and individual teachers) 'worked' to shape the implementation of Olympic education in two Beijing primary schools. Utilising Foucault's notion of governmentality, we demonstrate that Olympic education was a significant tactic for Chinese government to realise their ambition of the great rejuvenation of China. Here, the state employed two technologies of government: policy announcements and outsourcing. In tension with common assumptions about China – and Chinese education – being purely authoritarian, our research illuminates how hybrid socialist-neoliberal rationalities worked to shape Olympic education in schools.
- Subjects
CHINA; BEIJING (China); CONTRACTING out; OLYMPIC Winter Games; OLYMPIC Games; TECHNOLOGY education; LIBRARY media specialists; GOVERNMENT policy; CHINESE people; OPENING ceremonies; MEDALS
- Publication
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 2023, Vol 58, Issue 2, p349
- ISSN
1012-6902
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/10126902221101993