Chinese Elementary Education System Reform in Rural, Pastoral, Ethnic, and Private Schools

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. New Problems and Strategies in the Financial Reform in Compulsory Education

   • Ling Li, Deming Yan, Xiaoming Pan, Jiafu Zheng

   Pages 1-41

3. Incorporating Ethnic and Folk Culture into Artistic Education a Case Study of the Embroidery of the Miao Ethnic Community

   • Ling Li, Shimei Pan, Jiafu Zheng

   Pages 43-74

4. Issues and Policy Studies of the Mechanism Governing the Flow of Teachers in Primary and Middle Schools—A Case Study of the Pastoral Areas in the SK Autonomous Region

   • Mingjiang Tu, Ling Li, Jiafu Zheng

   Pages 75-104

5. A Model for Rural Teachers Supplement in the Western Part of China: An Approach Based on the Compensatory Wage Differential Theory

   • Ling Li, Jinzhen Lu, Jiafu Zheng

   Pages 105-118

6. An Integrated Model that Unifies Urban and Rural Compulsory Education—A Case Study of the YZ County

   • Ling Li, Xuan He, Jiafu Zheng

   Pages 119-140

7. A Classic Case Study of Chinese Private Education System Reform—An Evaluative Report on Private Education Reform in ZS City

   • Xingping Zhou, Ling Li, Jiafu Zheng

   Pages 141-249

8. Back Matter

   Pages 251-257

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This book introduces Chinese educational reforms and developments rolled out in the year 2014, examining them from both macro and micro perspectives and pursuing a mixed-methods approach.

This book depicts the current landscape of the Chinese education system and institutions on different educational levels and in a variety of educational types, covering the development and reform status, issues, causes and effects, strategy plans and trends in the specific areas of schooling, financing, educator development and student development. Based on policy analysis, case studies, surveys and big data analysis, it combines the perspectives of both officials and grass-root stakeholders. Presenting contributions by scholars from over 10 Chinese and international higher education institutions and research institutes, as well as administrators and educators from over 20 provinces and regions throughout the nation, the book offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date and solidly fact-based scholarly representation of Chinese education reform and development on the market.

• Educational reform
• Educational development
• Educational system
• Educational policy
• Educational institution
• Chinese education
• Big data collection and analysis
• Mixed method
• Empirical studies

• Institute of Educational Policy, Southwest University Institute of Educational Policy, Chongqing, China

  Ling Li

• Southwest University , Chongqing, China

  Jiafu Zheng

Ling Li is a faculty member of the Center for Education Policy in the Faculty of Education at the Southwest University, China. She received her doctorate from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. She headed and accomplished two key national projects funded by the Ministry of Education: “Constructing An Integrated Educational and Institutional System in the Urban and Rural Areas in China” and “The Reform and Development of Education System in China.”Li has published two English books in Springer and VDM, three Chinese books in the Higher Education Press in China, and more than 70 articles in Chinese top journals and the SSCI journals abroad. Li also contributes to Chinese education reform and policy making by providing 10 consultation reports for the Ministry of Education and provincial bureaus of education. Noted by its broad strategic vision, first-hand materials collected from field research, big data analysis, as well as interdisciplinary approaches, Ling Li’s work has played a pivotal role in helping innovate Chinese education policy analysis and its research methods.

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