ERIC Number: EJ1378240
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Jun
Pages: 18
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ISSN: ISSN-0952-8733
EISSN: EISSN-1740-3863
"The Trying Game": Policy Experimentation According to Institutional Environment in China's Education Reforms
Higher Education Policy, v36 n2 p289-306 Jun 2023
Policy experimentation (PE) has been regarded as an integral element in defining China's reform capability. However, few studies have investigated the processes of PE in China's education reforms, as well as the policy conditions required for PE's successful initiation, implementation, and inclusion into the policy process. Through an empirically informed case study featuring university graduate assignment and employment reform, engaged with extensive documentary evidence and semi-structured interviews, the study argues that PE allows a temporary breakthrough from the existing policy constraints to generate contextualized novel policy options, but its large-scale diffusion and inclusion into the policy process have to proceed according to the institutional environment, corresponding to the broader social, economic, and cultural changes.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Educational Change, Universities, Graduate Study, Assignments, Employment, Evidence, Social Change, Educational Innovation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China
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