China Education Policy Review 2001

Author: Yuan ZhenGuo (Editor)
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Publish Date: 2003-05-12
Features: This book presents to the readers 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 ensure its education is strong. How to maintain the necessary tension between a large-scale and a strong education system? How to address the relationship between basic education and other types of education? How to handle the 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 processes. 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.