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To, Cho-Yee – Adult Leadership, 1975
Adult education in China consists mainly in literacy classes, skills training (agricultural, Industrial, and otherwise), and political training. (Author)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Chinese Culture, Developing Nations
LIN, VINCENT T.C. – 1963
ADULT EDUCATION IN PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA IS A BASIC CONDITION FOR THE TRANSITION TO COMMUNISM AND AN INSTRUMENT FOR CONSOLIDATING THE PROLETARIAN DICTATORSHIP AND TRAINING PERSONNEL FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. IT HAS THREE FUNCTIONS--ERADICATING ILLITERACY, CREATING A NEW TYPE OF CITIZEN, AND DEVELOPING A NEW INTELLIGENSIA FROM THE WORKING…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Behavior Change, Change Agents, Communication Skills
Peer reviewedRobinson, Jean C. – Comparative Education Review, 1991
Reflects on education in China in light of the changing Communist world. Focuses on the tension among four competing educational goals--economic modernization, education as a universal right, recruitment of elites, and dissemination of ideology--while addressing problems in rural education, literacy education, teacher training, educational…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Paulston, Rolland G.
Socioeconomic development in China between the two world wars included an extensive mass education effort by reform-minded young Chinese. Focusing on adult literacy and rural reconstruction, Chinese educators employed various strategies to stimulate and assist self-help efforts in Chinese villages. Paramount among these educational techniques were…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Asian Studies, Chinese Culture
