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This book examines the ways education reform has been shaped in China. Focusing on the past education policy development, it offers unique perspectives to illustrate China's education reform and provides an overview of policies and their implications. In addition, the book discusses educational development, educational value, educational efforts and educational tasks and explores physical, aesthetic and labor education, as well as the management of off-campus training institutions and the policies on abolishing the "Five Only" in contemporary China. Conceptualizing the education reform model in China since 1949 for the first time, the book maps Chinese education policy development.
List of contents
Chapter 1 Shaping the Educational Development in China: The Context and Efforts.- Chapter 2 Shaping the Educational Value in China: Ideas and Practices.- Chapter 3 Shaping the Educational Efforts in China: Concepts and Actions.- Chapter 4 Shaping the Teacher Construction-Oriented Educational Tasks in China: Issues and Challenges.- Chapter 5 Shaping the Physical Education in China: The Contexts and Efforts.- Chapter 6 Shaping the Aesthetic Education in China: Policies and Concerns.- Chapter 7 Shaping the Labor Education in China: Background and Progress.- Chapter 8 Shaping the Management of Off-Campus Training Institutions in China.- Chapter 9 Shaping the Policies on Abolishing the "Five Only".
About the author
Jian Li, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the China Institute of Education and Social Development, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University. While pursuing her Ph.D. at Indiana University in Bloomington, USA, Dr. Li served as the Senior Research Consultant for the Office of the Vice Provost for Educational Inclusion and Diversity, and in associate researcher positions at the Project on Academic Success, Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University. Dr. Li's general areas of scholarship are education policy and law, and comparative education policy. Dr. Li has published over 40 articles, monographs and book chapters.
Eryong Xue, Ph.D. Changjiang Scholar of Ministry of Education, is a Professor at the China Institute of Education and Social Development, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, where he serves as the Chief Scholar from the Ministry of Education of the Education Thoughts of President Xi Jinping. His research interests include education policy and law, comparative education policy and equality of education. He has published over 160 articles, monographs, reports and policy briefs in these areas.
