Education Policy and Reform in China

ISBN-13: 9789811364945 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 188 str.

Guangli Zhou; Xiang Zhou

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Social Change and Education Reform.- Part I Social Change and Improvement of the Education
System.- 2. Efforts to Develop Preschool Education.- 3. Balanced Development of Compulsory Education.- 4. Guaranteeing Migrant Children's Right to an Education.- 5. The Establishment of a Modern Vocational Education
System.- 6. Change and Innovation in the Private Education System.- 7. Improving the Quality Evaluation System of Higher Education.- Part II Reform of Higher Education and Institutional Innovation.- 8. Establishment of a Lifelong Education System.- 9. Reform of the College Entrance Examination.- 10. Teaching Personnel System Reform.- 11. Establishment and Perfection of a Modern University System.- 12. Postgraduate Education and Degree System Reform.- 13. Establishment of a Zone for Training Top Innovative Talents.- 14. Building a World-Class University.- 15. Epilogue: Cultivation of the Capacity of the National System to Facilitate the Modernization of Education.

O autorze

Guangli Zhou is the Vice Director of the Education Department at Renmin University of China, China. His research focuses on the policy and management of higher education, educational politics and educational law studies. He presides over ten programs granted by National Natural Science Foundation and National Social Science Foundation and published over 100 academic papers in these areas. He was honored with ten provincial and ministerial level Scientific Research Awards.

Xiang Zhou is the Associate Professor at the Education Department at Renmin University of China, China. His research focuses on education and law, modern school systems and the American education.

Blurb

This book examines educational development and reform in contemporary China and focuses on some of the major issues facing education in both rural and urban areas, across the spectrum of primary, secondary, higher, adult and vocational educational pathways. The book reflects on Chinese educational strategies at a time of rapid development of the market economy and the need to promote the modernization of education. It also considers how social reform and educational changes go hand in hand and discusses the right to education irrespective of gender, nationality, particularly examining the case of children from migrant families. From the rapid development of preschool and compulsory education to the modernization of the university system, this book highlights China’s ambition to create a top tier education system, fostering talent to match its requirements in a fast moving employment market and knowledge economy.

 

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