Reviewing Schools: Unraveling the Knots of School Management

Author: Ge Jingguo
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Publish Date: 2001-02-01
Features: This series of books is a collection of works that describe and analyze the current state and reform trends of Chinese education. It explores the most urgent, fundamental, and crisis-ridden issues facing Chinese education today, which are also hot topics of concern in society, such as the "3+X" college entrance examination reform, private education, university expansion, the education industry, innovative education, school management, gifted education, teachers, curriculum reform, and more. This series also reflects a spirit of upholding a realistic, critical, and transformative approach. It does not books, blindly follow authority, gloss over the problems, or alarmist. This is precisely what our current society and education urgently need. This series is not a profound academic monograph on pure theoretical issues, but rather an educational reflective reading material for all sectors of society. It provides concise yet insightful commentary on the hot topics of contemporary Chinese education. The series is well-researched, analytically rigorous, and written in clear, accessible language. It is both innovative and critical, yet also lively and engaging, with a strong appeal to the general public and readability. It starts from the actual social effects of China's education policies and strategies, employs the latest achievements of modern educational science, examines the difficulties currently facing Chinese education, analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of China's education system and strategies, and explores ways to overcome the pitfalls between educational theory and practice. Its original intention was to introduce the latest reflections of young scholars on the current state and future of Chinese education to the public. It serves all those who are concerned about educational development but are unfamiliar with modern educational theory. Therefore, every reader who is diligent in thinking about social issues will find valuable inspiration in this series. Being a principal is difficult, being a good principal is even harder, and being an "excellent principal" is the hardest of all. Why is it so difficult? What are the challenges? How should these difficulties be faced and resolved? This book places school management in the context of contemporary major transformations, focusing on the practical issues commonly concerned by principals. Based on extensive factual investigations and analyses, it adopts a documentary-like approach to reveal the current problems of school management in China and their strategies for transcendence.