Higher Education In Post Mao China

Author : Michael Agelasto,Bob Adamson
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789622094505

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Higher Education in Post-Mao China by Michael Agelasto,Bob Adamson Pdf

Since the death of Chairman Mao in 1976, China has embarked upon the Four Modernizations reform programme that has transformed the social, economic and political landscape of the world's most populous nation. Higher education has been ascribed a key supporting role and has itself undergone major reforms. This book looks beyond the articulated goals and accomplishments of the modernization of higher education in China. It delves into the grass roots reality and identifies the true achievements, the unintended outcomes and the major obstacles that still have to be overcome. Incorporating twenty chapters from the new generation of scholars from inside and outside China, Higher Education in Post-Mao China presents in-depth analyses of the impact of educational reforms on tertiary educators, the curriculum, the economic structure, women, and students' values and aspirations. In conveying the Chinese experience of higher education reform over the past two decades, this book makes a major contribution to contemporary sinology and comparative education.

Author : Edward Vickers,Zeng Xiaodong
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351719742

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Education and Society in Post-Mao China by Edward Vickers,Zeng Xiaodong Pdf

The post-Mao period has witnessed rapid social and economic transformation in all walks of Chinese life – much of it fuelled by, or reflected in, changes to the country’s education system. This book analyses the development of that system since the abandonment of radical Maoism and the inauguration of ‘Reform and Opening’ in the late 1970s. The principal focus is on formal education in schools and conventional institutions of tertiary education, but there is also some discussion of preschools, vocational training, and learning in non-formal contexts. The book begins with a discussion of the historical and comparative context for evaluating China’s educational ‘achievements’, followed by an extensive discussion of the key transitions in education policymaking during the ‘Reform and Opening’ period. This informs the subsequent examination of changes affecting the different phases of education from preschool to tertiary level. There are also chapters dealing specifically with the financing and administration of schooling, curriculum development, the public examinations system, the teaching profession, the phenomenon of marketisation, and the ‘international dimension’ of Chinese education. The book concludes with an assessment of the social consequences of educational change in the post-Mao era and a critical discussion of the recent fashion in certain Western countries for hailing China as an educational model. The analysis is supported by a wealth of sources – primary and secondary, textual and statistical – and is informed by both authors’ wide-ranging experience of Chinese education. As the first monograph on China's educational development during the forty years of the post-Mao era, this book will be essential reading for all those seeking to understand the world’s largest education system. It will also be crucial reference for educational comparativists, and for scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds researching contemporary Chinese society.

Author : Jing Lin
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015029235200

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Education in Post-Mao China by Jing Lin Pdf

A rare insider's view of educational development and problems in China since economic reform began in 1978, this volume critically examines the issue of political socialization through curriculum and compares the curriculum used during the Cultural Revolution with that compiled and used throughout China in 1988. Also explored are problems with student dropouts and teacher motivation in rural education and government-supported nonformal education; the tracking system and vocational education development in urban schools; problems that came about with economic and political reform; and the issue of inequality existing between and within rural and urban schools. Turning to recent decentralization efforts in school administration, Jing Lin analyzes evidence suggesting that educational policy is politically controlled. Additionally, the development of educational research in the 1980s and 1990s constitutes the topic of one chapter, based on hundreds of published books and papers. Finally, Lin reflects on the massive student movement that arose in the spring of 1989 and delineates the social, economic, and political changes that sparked it. This final section treats these educational changes as an interconnected whole that underlay the movement and gave it such distinctive characteristics as nonviolence and a rational, constructive outlook.

Author : Nalini Mathur
Publisher : APH Publishing
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 8131300862

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Educational Reform in Post-Mao China by Nalini Mathur Pdf

Author : Min Tao
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429805561

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Social Changes and Yuwen Education in Post-Mao China by Min Tao Pdf

Inspired by the author’s observations of the language curriculum as a practising teacher for the past 20 years, this book addresses how the high school Chinese language and literacy (Yuwen) curriculum in China was controlled and directed in the post-Mao era. Examining the social and political domination from 1980 to 2010, the book offers insights into how teachers and schools responded to the top-down curriculum change in their teaching practice. This book discusses some of the most important questions concerning China and its education system: What changes have occurred in the Chinese language and literacy curricula; how and why the changes have occurred; who has been in control of the process and outcome; and what impacts the curriculum changes may bring not only to China but to the international sectors that "export" education and degrees to China and Chinese students. The author provides answers to these questions crucial to both the contemporary Chinese society and the students who come out of that system. This critical inquiry of the Yuwen curriculum and its implementation provides a valuable and timely showcase for understanding the ideology of China's future generation and the social and political transformation in the past three decades. In addition to researchers, this book is expected to have impact on policymakers in China and beyond, where Chinese migrants and international students constitute a substantial learning population.

Author : Shirin Rai
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : China
ISBN : 0745009034

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Resistance and Reaction by Shirin Rai Pdf

A study of the reform policies in the sphere of higher education in post-Mao China, this work examines the conditions in Chinese universities, focusing on the nature of the educational reforms and their impact on the lives within the universities.

Author : Irving Epstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351387965

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Chinese Education by Irving Epstein Pdf

This book, first published in 1991, is concerned with educational change. It seeks to place Chinese educational policies within the broader social context of Chinese development and modernisation imperatives by analysing issues germane to specific educational structures and sectors. At the same time, it attempts to inform the reader of larger policy issues which affect the educational system as a whole and speak to more global concerns: the nature of Chinese student activism, gender inequality, rural-urban disparities, educational inequality, the influences of market forces, and the growth of professionalism.

Author : Denis Fred Simon,Merle Goldman
Publisher : Harvard Univ Asia Center
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674794753

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Science and Technology in Post-Mao China by Denis Fred Simon,Merle Goldman Pdf

Along with the political and economic reforms that have characterized the post-Mao era in China there has been a potentially revolutionary change in Chinese science and technology. Here sixteen scholars examine various facets of the current science and technology scene, comparing it with the past and speculating about future trends. Two chapters dealing with science under the Nationalists and under Mao are followed by a section of extensive analysis of reforms under Deng Xiaoping, focusing on the organizational system, the use of human resources, and the emerging response to market forces. Chapters dealing with changes in medical care, agriculture, and military research and development demonstrate how these reforms have affected specific areas during the Chinese shift away from Party orthodoxy and Maoist populism toward professional expertise as the guiding principle in science and technology. Three further chapters deal with China's interface with the world at large in the process of technology transfer. Both the introductory and concluding chapters describe the tension between the Chinese Communist Party structure, with its inclinations toward strict vertical control, and the scientific and technological community's need for a free flow of information across organizational, disciplinary, and national boundaries.

Author : Theodore Hsi-en Chen
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781483188904

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Chinese Education Since 1949 by Theodore Hsi-en Chen Pdf

Chinese Education Since 1949: Academic and Revolutionary Models covers the developments in the education in China. This book is composed of 11 chapters that discuss the contrasting models of education: Academic Model and Revolutionary Model. It addresses the effectiveness of combining these models. This book begins with the description of a political education; ideological remolding; development of a new school system; assessment of worker-peasant education; types of literacy campaigns; review of the Language Reform after 1949; description of Spare-time Education; and analysis of Sovietized Education. Other chapters consider the study of Friendship Association, the Hundred Flowers campaign, and the response of the so-called intellectuals. A chapter is devoted to the educational revolution and transitional period. The last chapter focuses on the revolutionary model of education. The book can provide useful information to historians, sociologists, students, and researchers.

Author : Stig Thøgersen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008651718

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Secondary Education in China After Mao by Stig Thøgersen Pdf

Secondary Education in China After Mao - Reform & Social Conflict

Author : Min Tao
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429805554

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Social Changes and Yuwen Education in Post-Mao China by Min Tao Pdf

Inspired by the author’s observations of the language curriculum as a practising teacher for the past 20 years, this book addresses how the high school Chinese language and literacy (Yuwen) curriculum in China was controlled and directed in the post-Mao era. Examining the social and political domination from 1980 to 2010, the book offers insights into how teachers and schools responded to the top-down curriculum change in their teaching practice. This book discusses some of the most important questions concerning China and its education system: What changes have occurred in the Chinese language and literacy curricula; how and why the changes have occurred; who has been in control of the process and outcome; and what impacts the curriculum changes may bring not only to China but to the international sectors that "export" education and degrees to China and Chinese students. The author provides answers to these questions crucial to both the contemporary Chinese society and the students who come out of that system. This critical inquiry of the Yuwen curriculum and its implementation provides a valuable and timely showcase for understanding the ideology of China's future generation and the social and political transformation in the past three decades. In addition to researchers, this book is expected to have impact on policymakers in China and beyond, where Chinese migrants and international students constitute a substantial learning population.

Author : Jing Lin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999-10-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313005749

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Social Transformation and Private Education in China by Jing Lin Pdf

Private schools resurfaced in China after 1978 when the Chinese government embarked on an economic reform for modernization. This book offers a comprehensive review of the development, characteristics, issues, and problems of private schools at primary, secondary and university levels, especially elite private schools for children of very wealthy families. Based on fieldwork at about 40 private and public schools in China, this study also critically examines social response and government reactions to private education development, and ends with reflections on its significance and future prospects, touching on issues concerning social equality, efficiency, public school reform, and democratization in China.

Author : Ruth Hayhoe,Marianne Bastid
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351387842

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China's Education and the Industrialised World by Ruth Hayhoe,Marianne Bastid Pdf

This book, first published in 1987, studies the practical and intellectual import of China's educational relations with the industrialised West, the Soviet Union and Japan. On the practical level, it provides a broad historical and philosophical context within which the possibilities and dangers inherent in China's educational involvement with developed countries may be considered. The book tests the theory that education transfers from the developed to the developing world have been used to consolidate political domination and economic exploitation by providing a detailed and provocative historical analysis of China's relations with the major developed nations.

Author : Paula L.W. Sabloff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429801990

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Higher Education in the Post-Communist World by Paula L.W. Sabloff Pdf

Originally published in 1999, Higher Education in the Post-Communist World focuses on specific public universities during their, and their nations’ early transition years (1989-1995) from communism to democracy and the changes from centrally planned, to free-market economies. The book offers a detailed view of universities in transition rather than case studies of entire systems of higher education, providing an opportunity for readers to understand the national politico-economic transition on higher education– individual faculty, students, and administrator; departments; and university – in a more immediate way than a system-wide approach would. The book presents information on specific universities and how the demise of the Soviet Union affected the governance, finance, faculty, students, and curriculum in several post-communist countries.

Author : Philip P. Pan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781416537052

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Out of Mao's Shadow by Philip P. Pan Pdf

An inside analysis of modern cultural and political upheavals in China by a fluent Beijing correspondent describes the power struggles currently taking place between the party elite and supporters of democracy, the outcome of which the author predicts will significantly affect China's rise to a world super-power. 125,000 first printing.