This book explores the reforms sweeping China's educational sector. Traditionally dominated by rote learning, China's educational system has increasingly been criticized by the rising middle class for failing to foster creativity, for arbitrary placement of students, and for fostering regional inequities. Reforms to make Chinese education "people-oriented" are slowly but surely gaining steam, as the sector embraces comprehensive reforms. This book will be of interest to journalists, educators, and China watchers.

Charts the reforms sweeping Chinese education Explores humanistic education and quantitatively-oriented education in the Chinese context Explores the relationship between education and innovation in a 21st century economy

Autorentext

Zhaohui Chu is a senior researcher at the National Institute of Education Sciences. In "TAO Xingzhi's Educational Thoughts and Educational Reform in Rural Areas"-a research report of National Institute of Education Sciences-in 1985, Chu was one of contemporary China's earliest advocates of educational reform.

Inhalt
Chapter One Predicament: How can Education Lead to Happiness.- Chapter Two Social Transformation and Human Education.- Chapter Three Value: From Nationalism to People-centered Orientation.- Chapter Four System: From Government-Run Education to Diversified Education.- Chapter Five Management: Based on the Needs for Students' Growth and Development.- Chapter Six Evaluation: Towards Pluralism and Independence.- Chapter Seven Teaching: Education for Life.- Chapter Eight Education Parties: I Decide My Education.