Care for Life (Exploring the Value Orientation of Contemporary Chinese School Education)

Author: Li Jiacheng
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This book is part of a series on the reform of basic education in China at the beginning of the century, which is one of the series of achievements from the major research project "Research on the Reform of Basic Education and the Reconstruction of Chinese Educational Theory" undertaken by the Institute of Basic Education Reform and Development at East China Normal University and supported by the Ministry of Education's Major Project of Philosophy and Social Sciences. The work is based on the author's doctoral dissertation, which was selected as one of the Top 100 Excellent Doctoral Dissertations of 2004 by the State Council Academic Degrees Office. The theme of this series is more focused on the transformative changes in schools within China's basic education. In terms of the research scope of school reform, it has expanded to include the value orientation of school education, interpreting educational activities from a performative perspective, studying the power of ideas from the perspective of educational sociology, as well as topics such as management reform, teaching reform, the reflection and reconstruction of information technology in school education during the transformation of schools. The series aims to connect history, reality, and the future against the backdrop of contemporary human societal development and international education reform trends, and to elaborate on a series of major issues in the reform of China's basic education in the context of theory and practice.