Educational Modernization Outline

Author: Wang Tiejun
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Publishing Date: 2001-06-01
Features: "The 21st Century Principal's Continuing Education Library," including more than 10 works and textbooks such as Deng Xiaoping's Educational Theory and Strategies for Basic Education Reform, Outlines of Educational Modernization, Advice to Principals—101, Development of Specialized Schools and the Principal's Personality, New Perspectives on School Management, Modern Teaching Perspectives for Principals, School-Based Management: Concepts, Operations, and Experiences, Modern Educational Evaluation: Concepts, Methods, and Techniques, and Modern Principal Training: Concepts, Operations, and Experiences. These works and textbooks strive to reflect the new theories and viewpoints of contemporary educational reform, research new experiences and issues in school management, and broaden the educational horizons of principals, promoting the transformation of their educational concepts and the renewal of their cognitive structures. This book comprehensively and systematically discusses various aspects of educational modernization, particularly in the following areas, which are especially distinctive.
1. The author stands on the macro background of human social development, examining and researching educational modernization from the perspective of new concepts and strategies for sustainable social development, reflecting the connection between educational research and social progress. Educational modernization is not only an indispensable component of the sustainable development strategy but also a necessary condition for achieving sustainable development. "Sustainable development serves as the driving force for advancing and developing modern educational systems."
2. In terms of methodology, the author employs the scientific approach of systematic holism to comprehensively reveal and grasp the connotations and essential attributes of educational modernization, discussing its multiple objectives, development strategies, and models.
3. This book focuses on the study of educational modernization in China, analyzing the relationship between the primary stage of socialism and educational modernization, elaborating on the direction, national characteristics, and cultural characteristics of China's educational modernization. It proposes that educational modernization should be advanced actively yet steadily, based on the national conditions of China's primary stage of socialism.
4. In the context of modern educational management, this book is guided by the principles of human-centered and school-based management, closely focusing on the modernization of the subjects of educational modernization—principals and teachers. The human-centered and school-based management discussed in this book is not merely a management tool but always aims at the comprehensive and free development of individuals as its ultimate goal. Drawing on the author's own experience in principal and teacher continuing education, the book explores the new positioning, characteristics, functions, and further development of the roles of principals and teachers.
Finally, as an educator in Jiangsu Province, the author reflects on and summarizes the ongoing Jiangsu Educational Modernization Project as a typical case, providing a rational perspective. This eliminates empty talk and allows numerous readers to understand educational modernization through graspable, experiential facts. It will lay a more practical and grassroots foundation for China's educational modernization.