China Education Policy Review (2001)

Author: Edited by Yuan Zhenfu
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Publish Date: 2001-06-01
Features: What this book presents to readers is a fascinating dialogue between scholars and decision-makers, as well as between academic culture and decision-making culture, regarding the development of education in China during the 10th Five-Year Plan period, with a particular focus on the development of basic education. Compulsory education is the cornerstone of China's education system. Our reality is that a poor country is running a large-scale education system, but a large country must also run a strong education system. How to maintain the necessary tension between a large-scale and a strong education? How to handle the relationship between basic education and other types of education? How to address various internal relationships within basic education? The authors, with their wisdom, passion, and sense of national responsibility, not only express their views but also demonstrate their thought process; they not only discuss the rationality and effectiveness of educational policy content but also explore the rationality and effectiveness of the decision-making process itself.