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Hawkins, John N. – Comparative Education Review, 1985
Explores China's experience in developing higher education alternatives as a means to resolve contradictions between a revolutionary ideology of mass participation and the natural exclusiveness of conventional higher education. Describes six official and several unofficial forms of alternative higher education serving specific populations or…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Communism, Educational Development, Educational History
Li, Li; Delisle, James R. – Gifted Education International, 1990
This article describes specific options for gifted and talented children in China, provides a brief history of Chinese educational systems, and addresses some concerns related to the implications of China's social policies on educational attainment. Acceleration; enrichment; and special classes, schools, and programs available to gifted students…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Educational History, Educational Opportunities, Educational Policy
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Dongtao, Zou – Chinese Education and Society, 2005
"Sea turtles" refer to scholars who have returned from abroad, and especially from the Western countries while "land turtles" refer to scholars who have been "stuck" in China where they have obtained an education and engaged in theoretical research or practical explorations. In this article, the author compares the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Patriotism, Social Problems, Figurative Language
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Dongpoing, Yang – Chinese Education and Society, 2005
As the first year of the Sixteenth National People's Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), as well as the first year for the new government, the year 2003 witnessed new events and new expectations in Chinese society. The universalization of compulsory education and the elimination of adult illiteracy made new advancements. Secondary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Illiteracy, Compulsory Education
Michael, Robert J., Ed.; Juul, Kristen D., Ed. – View Finder, 1992
The articles included in this monograph represent a broad range of topics reflecting the current world scene with regard to the education of children with special needs. Titles and authors of the articles include: "UNESCO and Special Education" (Lena Saleh), which discusses the history, purposes, and activities of the United Nations…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Disabilities, Educational History, Educational Practices
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Guo, Shibao – Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education, 2004
From 1919 to 1921, John Dewey travelled and lectured in China. He received a thunderous welcome and exercised a tremendous influence in China, however, very little has been written about it. The first purpose of this article is to investigate Dewey's visit to China and his influence on Chinese education. The second is to examine the various social…
Descriptors: Ideology, Educational Philosophy, Foreign Countries, Confucianism
Chen, Kuan Yu – 1981
This paper examines education in China from 1949 to 1979. Education plays a key role in Chinese society. The main goal of Chinese educational policy is to produce workers with both socialist consciousness and culture. The Chinese conception of education is very broad and includes the regular school system, work-study education, and informal mass…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Communism, Comparative Education, Educational Change
Silvestri, Gary – 1977
This paper highlights the developments in teaching methods in China in the era of the post-Cultural Revolution, and explains how these methods grew out of educational experimentation during the Yenan period. The Yenan period followed the historic "long march, "when Mao Tse-tung and the People's Liberation Army (PLA) established their…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Curriculum, Educational Change, Educational History
Purpel, David, Ed.; Ryan, Kevin, Ed. – 1976
This book contains many general and specific suggestions on how schools might deal with moral education. School personnel need to be aware and knowledgeable of the dimensions of moral education--helping people to deal with questions of right and wrong in the ways they treat each other. Most of the theoretical issues presented in the book are…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comparative Education, Course Content, Curriculum Development
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Liao, Tai-Chu – Educational and Training Technology International, 1989
Discusses the historical development of educational technology in China and describes current concerns and practices. Topics discussed include the inadequacy of the present educational system; implementing educational technology; the need for theoretical studies; the need for integration of hardware and software; distance education; individualized…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Distance Education, Educational History
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Liu, Meihui; Hung, Li-Ching – International Journal of Educational Research, 2002
As a result of Taiwan's peculiar political situation, national identity has become a crucial and controversial issue in the history curriculum. This chapter analyzes the changing role of nationalism in the history curriculum from 1980 onwards, focusing on the ways in which politics has affected the history curriculum. In particular, it examines…
Descriptors: Junior High Schools, Nationalism, Textbooks, Foreign Countries
Cong, Xiaoping – University of British Columbia Press, 2007
"Teachers' Schools and the Making of the Modern Chinese Nation-State" is an innovative account of educational and social transformations in politically tumultuous early twentieth-century China. It focuses on the unique nature of Chinese teachers' schools, which bridged Chinese and Western ideals, and the critical role that these schools…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Change, Development, Educational History
Lin, Jing – 1994
This paper presents information on a new educational phenomenon in China--private schools. It reflects on the history of private education in China and its disappearance since 1949. Economic, social, and political conditions that prompted the reemergence of private schools since China's economic reform started in 1978 are examined. The article…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Dore, Ronald – 1976
The aims and motives of schooling are changing, and it is becoming more and more a ritualized process of qualification-earning. The underlying causes of this change are traced through the education histories of Britain, Japan, Sri Lanka, and Kenya. It is illustrated that the competitve scramble for scarce modern jobs has created a "backwash…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Certificates, Educational Demand, Educational History
Yeh, N. Kai – Media in Education and Development, 1983
Presents statistics and other information from English articles and Chinese newspapers on the People's Republic of China's Central Radio and Television University and distance education. Areas covered include management; student admission, control, support, and assessment; courses and curricula; telecast production; equipment; enrollment and…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Admission (School), Courses, Developing Nations
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