Xiaoming Sheng has a PhD in Sociology of Education from the University of Cambridge, UK. She is interested in developing theorisations of social class and how it is mediated by gender. Her research mainly focuses on higher education choice, home education, parental involvement, social stratification, gender, and social inequality.

• 1. Setting the scene. 2. Choices with market: being marginalised in marketization of education. 3. Social class and choice: an inside perspective on families-vs-schools in China. 4. Christian home education in China. 5. Confucian home education in China. 6. Cultural order and parents’ motivations for practising home education in China. 7. Family cultured habitus and its influences on the development of home education in China. 8. Gendered habitus in home education in China. 9. Gender, technology and home-schooling development in China. 10. Understanding social movement: liberal and conservative agendas in home education in China. 11. Home education and law in China. 12. Understanding conservative home-schooling movements: global contexts and international trends. 13. Contributions and conclusions

Xiaoming Sheng has a PhD in Sociology of Education from the University of Cambridge, UK. She is interested in developing theorisations of social class and how it is mediated by gender. Her research mainly focuses on higher education choice, home education, parental involvement, social stratification, gender, and social inequality.

• 1. Setting the scene. 2. Choices with market: being marginalised in marketization of education. 3. Social class and choice: an inside perspective on families-vs-schools in China. 4. Christian home education in China. 5. Confucian home education in China. 6. Cultural order and parents’ motivations for practising home education in China. 7. Family cultured habitus and its influences on the development of home education in China. 8. Gendered habitus in home education in China. 9. Gender, technology and home-schooling development in China. 10. Understanding social movement: liberal and conservative agendas in home education in China. 11. Home education and law in China. 12. Understanding conservative home-schooling movements: global contexts and international trends. 13. Contributions and conclusions

Xiaoming Sheng has a PhD in Sociology of Education from the University of Cambridge, UK. She is interested in developing theorisations of social class and how it is mediated by gender. Her research mainly focuses on higher education choice, home education, parental involvement, social stratification, gender, and social inequality.

• 1. Setting the scene. 2. Choices with market: being marginalised in marketization of education. 3. Social class and choice: an inside perspective on families-vs-schools in China. 4. Christian home education in China. 5. Confucian home education in China. 6. Cultural order and parents’ motivations for practising home education in China. 7. Family cultured habitus and its influences on the development of home education in China. 8. Gendered habitus in home education in China. 9. Gender, technology and home-schooling development in China. 10. Understanding social movement: liberal and conservative agendas in home education in China. 11. Home education and law in China. 12. Understanding conservative home-schooling movements: global contexts and international trends. 13. Contributions and conclusions