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The Legitimization of Textbook Reform: Strategies and Challenges in China
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Xu, Shuqin – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2021
This study employs textbooks and legitimacy theories to examine the complexity of legitimizing China's textbook reform, planned since 2012, for three ideologically-laden subjects (Chinese language, History, and Morality and Law). Specifically, it explores why, to whom, and how China's Ministry of Education legitimized this textbook reform, which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Textbook Content, Educational Change
School Governance Structure and Its Impact on Student Performance: A Comparative Study between Four Provinces of China and the PISA2015 High-Scored Countries/Economies
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Zhao, Decheng; Wang, Luhuan – Best Evidence in Chinese Education, 2020
Improving the school governance structure and establishing a modern school system are the current research focuses in elementary and middle school management. Through a comparative analysis of the school governance structure of four provinces and cities in China (Beijing-Shanghai-Jiangsu-Guangdong, BSJG) and PISA2015 high-scored…
Descriptors: Governance, School Administration, Elementary Schools, Middle Schools
What Johnny Can't Read: "First Amendment Rights" in the Classroom.
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Orleans, Jeffrey H. – Journal of Law and Education, 1981
Representative, delegated school governance by elected officials intrinsically vests curricular control in those officials. Because their offices are created so that the schools may be governed, they have authority to govern the schools--even especially--in the delicate and critical areas of deciding how and what the schools shall teach.…
Descriptors: Censorship, Court Litigation, Curriculum, Elementary Secondary Education