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Education Policy in Chinese High Schools

Concept and Practice

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  • Proposes the new idea of Chinese high school education policy to explore how to advocate compulsory education reform at China’s education institutions
  • Provides unique standpoints to illustrate the implicit connection between constructing the educational reform
  • Investigates intensive discourse on exploring the high school education policy development with Chinese characteristics

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This book investigates the education policy in Chinese high schools from both concept and practice perspectives. It offers a specific lens to explore Chinese high school education since the reform and opening up, the teacher policy in Chinese high schools, the curriculum and textbook policy in Chinese high school, the school layout policy of Chinese high school education, the enrollment policy of college entrance examination, and the diversified development of high school education in China. All those dimensions related to exploring the education policy in Chinese high schools offer an understanding of the modernization of high school education in contemporary China since 1949. This book provides multiple perspective to investigate the systematic landscape of high school education, contextually.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

    Jian Li, Eryong Xue

About the authors

Eryong Xue, who obtained his Ph.D. at Changjiang Scholar of Ministry of Education, is Professor at the China Institute of Education and Social Development, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, where he serves as 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.
 
Jian Li, Ph.D., is 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 Senior Research Consultant for the Office of the Vice Provost for Educational Inclusion and Diversity and in Associate Researcher position 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.

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