Education and Society in Post Mao China 1st Edition by Edward Vickers, Zeng Xiaodong 0415597390 9780415597395

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ISBN 10: 0415597390

ISBN 13: 9780415597395

Author: Edward Vickers; Zeng Xiaodong

The post-Mao period has witnessed rapid social and economic transformation in all walks of Chinese life – much of it fuelled by, or reflected in, changes to the country’s education system. This book analyses the development of that system since the abandonment of radical Maoism and the inauguration of ‘Reform and Opening’ in the late 1970s. The principal focus is on formal education in schools and conventional institutions of tertiary education, but there is also some discussion of preschools, vocational training, and learning in non-formal contexts. The book begins with a discussion of the historical and comparative context for evaluating China’s educational ‘achievements’, followed by an extensive discussion of the key transitions in education policymaking during the ‘Reform and Opening’ period. This informs the subsequent examination of changes affecting the different phases of education from preschool to tertiary level. There are also chapters dealing specifically with the financing and administration of schooling, curriculum development, the public examinations system, the teaching profession, the phenomenon of marketisation, and the ‘international dimension’ of Chinese education. The book concludes with an assessment of the social consequences of educational change in the post-Mao era and a critical discussion of the recent fashion in certain Western countries for hailing China as an educational model. The analysis is supported by a wealth of sources – primary and secondary, textual and statistical – and is informed by both authors’ wide-ranging experience of Chinese education. As the first monograph on China’s educational development during the forty years of the post-Mao era, this book will be essential reading for all those seeking to understand the world’s largest education system. It will also be crucial reference for educational comparativists, and for scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds researching contemporary Chinese society.

Education and Society in Post Mao China 1st Table of contents:

1 Introduction: Education, development and social change in post-Mao China – framing the debate

2 Comparative and historical perspectives on education and development in contemporary China

3 The politics of education in post-Mao China: An overview

4 Early childhood education and care

5 The funding and administration of basic education

6 The school curriculum: Ideology and control

7 The teaching profession: Training, retention and professional development

8 Evaluation, assessment and the senior high school

9 Marketisation, competition and schooling

10 Vocational and technical education

11 Higher education from 1977 to the mid-1990s

12 Higher education since 1998: Expansion, stratification and control

13 The international dimension

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