| Two Decades of Basic Education in Rural China: Transitions and Challenges for Development Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Wang, Lu (Author), Lewin, Keith (Author) |
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ISBN: 9811095329 ISBN-13: 9789811095320 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Comparative - Education | Educational Policy & Reform - Education | History |
| Dewey: 370.9 |
| Series: New Frontiers of Educational Research |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.74 lbs) 205 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book examines how educational change has progressed in three contrasting areas spread across China since 1990, exploring key issues concerning rural education in poor, rich and minority areas. Of the three areas covered in this book, the first is a rich one near Beijing; the second is in the northwest in Shanxi on the Loess plateau; and the third is in Sichuan on the high plateau leading to Tibet. Central issues include the impact of large-scale demographic change and migration, with increasing numbers of left-behind children in sending areas, and large increases in the numbers of inbound migrants in receiving areas; dramatic increases in the boarding of children in rural areas as a result of rural school merge; changing patterns of teacher deployment; recentralization of responsibilities for school financing; and growing concerns regarding horizontal and vertical inequalities in both access and participation. |