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- The first study of its kind, comparing educational conditions and progress over a 20-year period
- Offers a comprehensive portrait of rural education in China
- Analyzes vertical and horizontal inequalities and changing patterns of marginalization in educational resource allocation
- Explores critical issues affecting teachers and substitute teachers
- Interprets Chinese experiences from an international perspective and can therefore also be applied to other countries
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: New Frontiers of Educational Research (NFER)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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International and Comparative Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
Lu Wang
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School of Education Centre for International Education, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
Keith Lewin
About the authors
Wang Lu is Professor at the School of International and Comparative Education, the Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, the People’s Republic of China. She obtained her PhD in Education at Sussex University and subsequently worked as research officer at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK. She has been leading various research projects funded by the British Academy, British Council, Save the Children, as well as key research projects funded by the Chinese national level organizations. She has been working as international and national consultant for the World Bank, UNESCO and DFID on basic education projects in China. She has published widely on equity issues in basic education, access of migrant children, minority children and girls to compulsory education, inspection and evaluation, policy and reform of British education. She has won first class reward on research on school inspection system from national research society.
Professor Keith Lewin isthe Director for International Education at the University of Sussex and of CREATE, as well as former president of British Association for Comparative and International Education (BAICE). He is academician of the Academy of the Social Sciences, United Kingdom, Joyce Cain Award of the Comparative and International Education Society of the USA for the best journal article on Africa (2013), Honorary Professor Beijing Normal University. He has extensive experience in China, Africa, South and South East Asia. He has published 18 books and over 100 scholarly articles and chapters. He has worked extensively with the World Bank, DFID, DSE/GTZ, UNICEF　and UNESCO.　He presented at the world educational conference at Jomtien and Dakar, and contributed to development planning in Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, and South Africa, and in India, Mauritius and Sri Lanka. His research interests include the economics of education, educational financing, educational policy and planning, teacher education, science education policy ,　assessment and aid to education.　
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Two Decades of Basic Education in Rural China
Book Subtitle: Transitions and Challenges for Development
Authors: Lu Wang, Keith Lewin
Series Title: New Frontiers of Educational Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2120-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-2118-3Published: 22 September 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9532-0Published: 22 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-2120-6Published: 14 September 2016
Series ISSN: 2195-3473
Series E-ISSN: 2195-349X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 205
Number of Illustrations: 38 b/w illustrations
Topics: International and Comparative Education, Educational Policy and Politics