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    CHENG Meng Lecturer
    Institute of Education Theories
    Email:chengmeng@bnu.edu.cn
    Address:Beijing Normal University, No. 19, XinJieKouWai St., HaiDian District, Beijing 100875, P. R. China

    Positions

    Lecturer in Faculty of EducationBeijing Normal University, Beijing, China.


    Education Background

    Beijing Normal UniversityFaculty of EducationDoctors Degree2017

    Beijing Normal UniversityFaculty of EducationMasters Degree2012

    Beijing Normal UniversitySchool of Philosophy and SociologyBachelor’s Degree2010


    Work Experience

    2019.10-now Lecturer, Institute of Basic Theory of Education, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University

    2017.09-2019.10, postdoctoral fellow at the School of Public Administration of Tsinghua University and assistant researcher of the Science and Education Policy Research Center of Tsinghua University.

    2012.07-2014.07, high school teacher and head teacher of Beijing 14th Middle School.

    2011.09-2011.12, intern teacher of Beijing No. 101 Middle School.

     

    Visit Experience

    2015.08-2016.03, visiting scholar at the School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

    2018.07, visited the Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Commission and the Administrative Committee of the Macao Science and Technology Development Fund.

     

    Social Service:

    Member of the Youth Studies Professional Committee of the Chinese Youth Research Association

     

    Honors& Awards

    1. Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of Beijing Normal University (2018)

    2. Excellent postdoctoral academic achievements (2018)

    3. Tsinghua University Postdoctoral Support Program (2018)

    4. Beijing Normal University 2017 "Outstanding Graduate Student" (2017)

    5. "Tongding Excellent Graduate Scholarship" of Beijing Normal University (2017)

    6. "National Scholarship" for PhD Candidates (2016)

    7. "The 7th Capital University Pedagogy Graduate Academic Forum" Special Award (2016)

    8. Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis of Beijing Normal University in 2010 (2010)

     

    Teaching Experience

    1. Lecture on the undergraduate course "Education" (2020).

    2. Lecture on the postgraduate course "Principles of Education" (2020).

    3. Participate in the postgraduate course "Philosophy and Sociology Foundation of Education" (2020).

    4. Participate in the postgraduate course "Principles of Educational Sociology" (2020) as a young teacher's assistant.

    5. Participate in the teaching of the "Qualitative Research Methods" (2018) course of the School of Public Administration of Tsinghua University.

    6. Participate as a teaching assistant Paul Willis (Paul Willis) professor offered graduate courses "Anthropology of Education" (2016).

     

    Service & Consulting

    Yanjing Book Review: The Moral, Emotional and Cultural Order of Farmers’ Children Crossing the Urban-rural Boundaryhttps://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Xi1qr8DBHtBur-dfpD3wvQ2021-01-11.

    Reading the World in the Clouds: (Doctoral Refining Series) " College Material": Suffering and Transcendencehttps://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Az4EPUeFePftwrYPSwb4wghttps://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/2fswFGvaS_SlmiAzCmET2Q2021-01-31/2021-02-01.

    YiXi: College Materialhttps://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/S4Ol0fSt1HYiwcnWt1XsRw2021-04-01


    Selected Research Projects

    1. Host the project

    (1) From June 2018 to present, presided over the National Social Science Foundation (Sociology) Youth Project: "Research on Class Travel and Cultural Production of Contemporary Chinese Farm Children".

    (2) 2020.10-2022.9, presided over the 2020 Beijing Normal University Young Teacher Fund Project "Research on the Impact of Face Recognition Technology on Classroom Life"

    (3) 2018.11-2019.11, presided over the 64th batch of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation General Funding Project "Anthropological Research on Doctoral Depression".

    (4) 2019.06-2019.11, presided over the 12th batch of special funded project of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation "The Narrative Research of College Students' Mood Disorders from the Perspective of Medical Anthropology".

    (5) 2016.06-2017.06, presided over the 2016-2017 Gu Mingyuan Educational Research and Development Fund Project "Cultural Production of ‘Regulation Followers’-Farmers’ Children in Key Urban High Schools".

     

    2. Participate in the project

    (1) From 2019 to 2020, participate in research projects such as "Research on my country's "Five Education" Educational Planning and Major Issues during the 14th Five-Year Plan" and "Research on the Reform of Academic Evaluation Standards for Graduate Students of the Ministry of Education"

    (2) From 2017 to 2019, participate in research projects such as "Kunshan City Science and Technology Education Development Strategy Research", "University Research and Education Theory and Practice Research", and participate in the drafting of the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Science and Technology Innovation Plan".

    (3) From 2011 to 2016, participated in the related topics of the evaluation of the implementation of the "Special Post Program" policy, and participated in the writing of investigation reports on Sichuan Province, Guizhou Province and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps.


    Selected Academic Presentations

    1. The first Beijing Normal University Young Scholars Forum on Basic Theory of Family Education (2020), the theme report "Moral Hazard and Moral Life".

    2. The Fifth National Education Empirical Research Forum (2019, East China Normal University), the theme report of the sub-forum "The Melancholy of the Ivory Pagoda".

    3. The 15th National Educational Sociology Annual Conference (2018, Nanjing Normal University), the theme report of the conference " Youths from Rural Families Admitted to Elite Universities: “Empathy” and Destiny ".

    4. Chinese Sociological Society Cultural Sociology Winter Forum (2018, Xiamen University), the theme report of the sub-forum "Rural BackgroundA Complex Structure of Feeling ".

    5. The 14th National Educational Sociology Annual Conference (2016, Yunnan Nationalities University), the theme report of the sub-forum " “Things Are Increased By Being Diminished”: Another Discourse on the Cultural Capital of Underclass ".

    6. Kyoto University-Beijing Normal University Doctoral Forum (2014, Kyoto University), the theme report "Teachers and Farmland: A Case Study of the Role Transition of Rural Teachers in China Since 1949".

     

    Selected Publications

    1. Works

    Cheng, Meng, "College Material” and Their Cultural ProductionA Narrative Study of Contemporary Rural Kids’ Growth in China ", China Social Sciences Press, 2019 (selected in the seventh batch of China Social Sciences Postdoctoral Library, won the Outstanding Postdoctoral Academic Achievement Award).

    For related introductions and comments, see:

    (1) Cheng, Meng. “College Material” and Their Cultural Production: A Narrative Study of Contemporary Rural Kids' Growth in China. Network for Research into Chinese Education Mobilities,https://chineseedmobilities.wordpress.com/2019/10/30/college-material-and-their-cultural-production%ef%bc%9aa-narrative-study-of-contemporary-rural-kids-growth-in-china/,2019-10-30.

    (2) Cheng, Meng: How to unblock the upward flow of " College Material", The Paper,

    https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_8573199,2020-08-05.

    (3) Cheng, Meng: Can morality allow the poor to ride the wind and waves? Kengkeng Jinsheng Book Club,

    https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/XPtE43cyV1lgADMGB2Oz_Q, 2020-07-11.

    (4) Cheng, Meng: The Moral, Emotional and Cultural Order of Farmers’ Children Crossing the Urban-rural Boundary.

    https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Xi1qr8DBHtBur-dfpD3wvQ, 2021-1-11.

     

    2. Main papers

    (1) "Classroom Application of Face Recognition Technology: A Critical Reflection", Journal of Schooling Studies, 2020 (5), first author.

    (2) "Doctoral study: a spiritual gamble?" ——A Review of Foreign Studies on the Depression Risk of Doctoral Students, International and Comparative Education, 2020 (8), first author.

    (3) "Cultural Shuttle and Emotional Orientation: A Study on the Emotional Experience of Rural Children Entering Elite Universities", Chinese Youth Study,2019 (7), first author.

    (4) Rural Youths Admitted to Elite Universities: “Empathy” and Destiny, Chinese Education & Society, 2019, 52:5-6, 363-377 ,first author.

    (5) " Rural BackgroundA Complex Structure of Feeling ", Youth Studies, 2018 (6), independent author (Reprinted in Social Science Digest Issue 4, 2019; Awarded by the Youth Science Research Committee of the Chinese Youth Research Association 2018-2019 Excellent Achievement Award).

    (6) " College Material” and Its Cultural Implication ", Journal of Schooling Studies, 2018 (5), the first author.

    (7) " Youths from Rural Families Admitted to Elite Universities: “Empathy” and Destiny ", Chinese Youth Study, 2018 (5), first author (Chinese Youth Research 2018 Excellent Paper; Basic Theory of Education Reprinted by the academic committee public account, cultural aspect, surging, observer network and other media).

    (8) "Re-examination of "Underlying Cultural Capital"", Journal of Soochow University (Education Science Edition), 2018 (4), first author (Reprinted from the National People's University photocopy, Education Science Digest, Issue 1, 2019).

    (9) "The Unexpected Consequences of "Children Don't Inherit His Father's Business"-A Narrative Study on the Growth of Contemporary High School Achievement Farmers' Children", China’s Education: ResearchReview, 2018 No. 21, independent author.

    (10) "Looking for a Joint Life: An Analysis of the Reasons for Farmers Joining House Churches from the Perspective of Anthropology", Social Sciences of Beijing , 2017 (3), independent author.

    (11) "Problem Awareness and Emotional Structure-"A New Way of Life: Educational Observation and Cultural Research" International Symposium", Journal of Guizhou Normal University (Social Sciences), 2017 (3), first author.

    (12) Things Are Increased By Being Diminished”: Another Discourse on the Cultural Capital of Underclass ",Tsinghua Journal of Education, 2016 (4), first author (Photocopy of the National People's University, Education Science Digest, 2016 Reprinted in Issue 4 of 2008).

    (13) "Cultural Cost of Upward Mobility-"Phoenix Man" as a Class Traveller", Chinese Youth Study, 2016 (12), independent author (Chinese Youth Research 2016 Excellent Paper; National People's University Photocopy" Full text reprinted in Cultural Studies, Issue 4, 2017).

    (14) The Cultural Production of Conformists "", Youth Studies, 2016 (2), first author.

    (15) "When the "Superego" Becomes "God": An Ethnographic Study of the Christian Conversion Process of Rural College Students", Contemporary Youth Research, 2016 (2), independent author.