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Education and Society in Post-Mao China.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (409 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781351719735
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 370.95109047
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Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface and acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations and terms -- 1 Introduction: Education, development and social change in post-Mao China - framing the debate -- 2 Comparative and historical perspectives on education and development in contemporary China -- 3 The politics of education in post-Mao China: An overview -- 4 Early childhood education and care -- 5 The funding and administration of basic education -- 6 The school curriculum: Ideology and control -- 7 The teaching profession: Training, retention and professional development -- 8 Evaluation, assessment and the senior high school -- 9 Marketisation, competition and schooling -- 10 Vocational and technical education -- 11 Higher education from 1977 to the mid-1990s -- 12 Higher education since 1998: Expansion, stratification and control -- 13 The international dimension -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: 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 education. In this book, Vickers and Zeng analyse the development of the education system since the abandonment of radical Maoism and the inauguration of 'Reform and Opening' in the late 1970s.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface and acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations and terms -- 1 Introduction: Education, development and social change in post-Mao China - framing the debate -- 2 Comparative and historical perspectives on education and development in contemporary China -- 3 The politics of education in post-Mao China: An overview -- 4 Early childhood education and care -- 5 The funding and administration of basic education -- 6 The school curriculum: Ideology and control -- 7 The teaching profession: Training, retention and professional development -- 8 Evaluation, assessment and the senior high school -- 9 Marketisation, competition and schooling -- 10 Vocational and technical education -- 11 Higher education from 1977 to the mid-1990s -- 12 Higher education since 1998: Expansion, stratification and control -- 13 The international dimension -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

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 education. In this book, Vickers and Zeng analyse the development of the education system since the abandonment of radical Maoism and the inauguration of 'Reform and Opening' in the late 1970s.

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