Revisiting educational equity and quality in China through Confucianism, policy, research, and practice

Australian Educational Researcher

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 373-389

  Mu, Guanglun Michael ^a,b,c   Zheng, Xinrong ^b   Jia, Ning ^b   Li, Xiaohua ^b   Wang, Shaoyi ^b   Chen, Yanchuan ^b   He, Ying ^b   May, Lyn ^a   Carter, Merilyn ^a   Dooley, Karen ^a   Berwick, Adon ^a   Sobyra, Angela ^a   Diezmann, Carmel ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c not available   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chinese education; Confucianism; Educational equity; Educational quality; The State Guidelines

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881565432     PISSN: 03116999     EISSN: 22105328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13384-013-0113-0     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Betts, J. R., & Shkolnik, J. L. (1999). The behavioral effects of variations in class size: The case of math teachers. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 21(2), 193-213. doi: 10. 2307/1164300.
2. Bourdieu, P. (1973). Cultural reproduction and social reproduction. In R. Brown (Ed.), Knowledge, education, and cultural change: Papers in the sociology of education (pp. 71-112). London: Tavistock.
3. Bourdieu, P. (1986). Forms of capital. In J. G. Richardson (Ed.), Handbook of theory and research for the sociology of education (pp. 241-258). New York: Greenwood.
4. Bourdieu, P. (1989). Distinction: A social critique of the judgment of taste. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd.
5. Bourdieu, P. (1996). The state nobility: Elite schools in the field of power. Cambridge: Polity.
6. Brown, P. H., & Park, A. (2002). Education and poverty in rural China. Economics of Education Review, 21(6), 523-541. doi: 10. 1016/S0272-7757(01)00040-1.
7. Cheng, K.-M. (2011). Pedagogy: East and West, then and now. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 43(5), 591-599. doi: 10. 1080/00220272. 2011. 617836.
8. Colby, J., & Witt, M. (2000). Definingqualityineducation. Paper presented at the International Working Group on Education, Florence, Italy. http://www. unicef. org/education/files/QualityEducation. PDF. Accessed 20 April 2013.
9. Connelly, R., & Zheng, Z. (2003). Determinants of school enrollment and completion of 10 to 18 year olds in China. Economics of Education Review, 22(4), 379-388. doi: 10. 1016/S0272-7757(02)00058-4.
10. Dello-Iacovo, B. (2009). Curriculum reform and 'Quality Education' in China: An overview. International Journal of Educational Development, 29(3), 241-249. doi: 10. 1016/j. ijedudev. 2008. 02. 008.
11. Finn, J. D., & Achilles, C. M. (1999). Tennessee's class size study: Findings, implications, misconceptions. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 21(2), 97-109.
12. Hannum, E. (1999a). Political change and the urban-rural gap in basic education in China, 1949-1990. Comparative Education Review, 43(2), 193-211. doi: 10. 2307/1189018.
13. Hannum, E. (1999b). Poverty and basic-level schooling in China: Equity issues in the 1990s. Prospects, 29(4), 561-577. doi: 10. 1007/BF02736905.
14. Hu, Y. M., & Du, Y. H. (2009). Empirical research on the educational production function of rural primary schools in Western China. Educational Research, 7, 58-67.
15. Liang, B. (2013). Analysis of legal countermeasures to solve the problem of education equity. In W. Du (Ed.), Informatics and Management Science IV (Vol. 207, pp. 619-624). London: Springer.
16. Lin, J., & Zhang, Y. (2006). Educational expansion and shortages in secondary schools in China: The bottle neck syndrome. Journal of Contemporary China, 15(47), 255-274. doi: 10. 1080/10670560500534889.
17. Liu, C., Zhang, L., Luo, R., Rozelle, S., & Loyalka, P. (2010). The effect of primary school mergers on academic performance of students in rural China. International Journal of Educational Development, 30(6), 570-585. doi: 10. 1016/j. ijedudev. 2010. 05. 003.
18. Luo, J., & Wendel, F. C. (1999). Junior high school education in China. The Clearing House, 72(5), 279-284. doi: 10. 1080/00098659909599407.
19. Ministry of Education, P. R. C. (2006). Maintenance and improvement of school buildings. Beijing: Author.
20. Molnar, A., Smith, P., Zahorik, J., Palmer, A., Halbach, A., & Ehrle, K. (1999). Evaluating the SAGE program: A pilot program in targeted pupil-teacher reduction in Wisconsin. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 21(2), 165-177. doi: 10. 2307/1164298.
21. National Bureau of Statistics, P. R. C. (2006). China statistical yearbook. Beijing: China Statistics.
22. National Bureau of Statistics, P. R. C. (2011). China statistical yearbook. Beijing: China Statistics.
23. National Bureau of Statistics, P. R. C. (2012). Nationalreportoninternalmigrantsin2011. Beijing: Author.
24. Nye, B., Hedges, L. V., & Konstantopoulos, S. (1999). The long-term effects of small classes: A five-year follow-up of the Tennessee class size experiment. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 21(2), 127-142. doi: 10. 2307/1164296.
25. OECD. (2005). Teachers matter: Attracting, developing and retaining effective teachers. Paris: OECD.
26. OECD. (2012). Equity and quality in education: Supporting disadvantaged students and schools. Paris: OECD.
27. Pepper, S. (1996). Radicalism and education reform in 20th-century China: The search for an ideal development model. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press.
28. Rice, J. K. (1999). The impact of class size on instructional strategies and the use of time in high school mathematics and science courses. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 21(2), 215-229. doi: 10. 2307/1164301.
29. Robinson, B. (2008). Using distance education and ICT to improve access, equity and the quality in rural teachers' professional development in western China. International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 9(1), 1-17.
30. Ross, H., & Lin, J. (2006). Social capital formation through Chinese school communities. In E. Hannum & B. Fuller (Eds.), Children's lives and schooling across societies (Research in the Sociology of Education, Volume 15) (pp. 43-69). Burlington: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
31. Ruggiero, J., Miner, J., & Blanchard, L. (2002). Measuring equity of educational outcomes in the presence of inefficiency. European Journal of Operational Research, 142(3), 642-652. doi: 10. 1016/S0377-2217(01)00311-3.
32. Shin, Y., & Raudenbush, S. W. (2011). The causal effect of class size on academic achievement. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 36(2), 154-185. doi: 10. 3102/1076998610388632.
33. Spreen, C. A., & Vally, S. (2006). Education rights, education policies and inequality in South Africa. International Journal of Educational Development, 26(4), 352-362. doi: 10. 1016/j. ijedudev. 2005. 09. 004.
34. State Council, P. R. C. (2012). Guidelinesforamalgamationofruralschools. Beijing: State Council Retrieved from http://www. gov. cn/zwgk/2012-09/07/content_2218779. htm.
35. State Council, P. R. C. (2010). State guidelines for medium- and long-term education reform and development plan (2010-2020). Beijing: State Council.
36. Sun, Z. (2012). Peasants need not apply. NewsChina, 29-31.
37. Thøgersen, S. (2000). The 'quality' of Chinese education and the new ideal student. Nordic Newsletter of Asian Studies, 4, 4-7.
38. Thomas, V., Wang, Y., & Fan, X. (2000). Measuring education inequality: Gini coefficients of education. Washington DC: Springer.
39. UNESCO Education for All. (2000). The Dakar framework for action. Paris: UNESCO-EFA.
40. UNESCO Institute for Statistics. (2006). Teachers and educational quality: Monitoring global needs for 2015. Montreal: UNESCO-UIS.
41. West, L. A. (1997). Provision of public services in rural PRC. In C. P. W. Wong (Ed.), Financing local government in the People's Republic of China (pp. 213-282). Hong Kong, New York: Oxford University Press.
42. Wu, X. (2010). Economic transition, school expansion and educational inequality in China, 1990-2000. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 28(1), 91-108. doi: 10. 1016/j. rssm. 2009. 12. 003.
43. Confucius. (551-478 BC). (Analects: Weilinggong).
44. Yi, H., Zhang, L., Luo, R., Shi, Y., Mo, D., Chen, X., et al. (2012). Dropping out: Why are students leaving junior high in China's poor rural areas? International Journal of Educational Development, 32(4), 555-563. doi: 10. 1016/j. ijedudev. 2011. 09. 002.
45. Zhang, Q. Y. (2009). Confucianism for today. Beijing: Peking University Press.
46. Zhang, C., & Kong, J. (2009). An empirical study on the relationship between educational equity and the quality of economic growth in China: 1978-2004. Procedia, 1(1), 189-194. doi: 10. 1016/j. sbspro. 2009. 01. 035.
47. Zhao, M., & Glewwe, P. (2010). What determines basic school attainment in developing countries? Evidence from rural China. Economics of Education Review, 29(3), 451-460. doi: 10. 1016/j. econedurev. 2009. 10. 008.
48. Zhao, E. N., & Jia, N. (2012). Revisit the policy of amalgamation of rural schools: Parents' voices count, People'sDaily, p. 3.
49. Zheng, X., & Du, L. (2012). Blue book of Special Post Teacher in China. Beijing: China Central Education and Science.