Private schools resurfaced in China after 1978 when the Chinese government embarked on an economic reform for modernization. This book offers a comprehensive review of the development, characteristics, issues, and problems of private schools at primary, secondary and university levels, especially elite private schools for children of very wealthy families.
Based on fieldwork at about 40 private and public schools in China, this study also critically examines social response and government reactions to private education development, and ends with reflections on its significance and future prospects, touching on issues concerning social equality, efficiency, public school reform, and democratization in China.
Private schools resurfaced in China after 1978 when the Chinese government embarked on an economic reform for modernization. This book offers a comprehensive review of the development, characteristics, issues, and problems of private schools at primary, secondary and university levels, especially elite private schools for children of very wealthy families.
Based on fieldwork at about 40 private and public schools in China, this study also critically examines social response and government reactions to private education development, and ends with reflections on its significance and future prospects, touching on issues concerning social equality, efficiency, public school reform, and democratization in China.
Introduction
Overview and Context of Private Education Development
Private Education Development: An Overview
Economic Reform and Social Transformation Since 1948
Chinese Culture and Society and Dilemnas in the Public School
System
Profiles and Characteristics of Private Schools and
Universities
Elite Private Schools
Ordinary Private Schools
Private Universities
Culture, Characteristics and Moral and Democratic Education in
Private Schools
Characteristics and Culture of Private Schools
Moral and Democratic Education in Private Schools
Private Education Responses: Issues, Problems, and Theoretical
Reflection
Response from the Public, Scholars, and the Government
Issues and Problems
Equality and Choice: Theoretical and Practical Concerns
Significance and Future Prospect
Bibliography
Appendix: Regulation on Schools Run by Social Forces
Index
JING LIN is Associate Professor of Education at McGill University. She is the author of several books including The Opening of the Chinese Mind (1994), Education in Post-Mao China (1993), and The Red Guards' Path to Violence (1991) all by Praeger Publishers.
.,."its contribution to the understanding of contemporary Chinese
private education is significant."-Comparative Education Review
?...its contribution to the understanding of contemporary Chinese
private education is significant.?-Comparative Education Review
?[T]he book's greatest value lies in the thorough and rich use made
of Chinese sources and the detailed insights this provides into the
world of educational debate within China....probably the most
thorough and up-to-date study yet to appear on the highly
significant topic of private education in China. It opens up many
questions that go far beyond education itself to the future shape
of Chinese society, polity, and economy. It should be of wide
interest to students scholars of comparative education, as well as
those interested in contemporary China.?-The Journal of Asian
Studies
?I believe ms. Lin has done an excellent job in nagigating readers
through the path of the devlopmen of private education in
China....Any reader, whether an educator or not, will benefit from
reading the book.?-American Journal of Chienese Studies
"ÝT¨he book's greatest value lies in the thorough and rich use made
of Chinese sources and the detailed insights this provides into the
world of educational debate within China....probably the most
thorough and up-to-date study yet to appear on the highly
significant topic of private education in China. It opens up many
questions that go far beyond education itself to the future shape
of Chinese society, polity, and economy. It should be of wide
interest to students scholars of comparative education, as well as
those interested in contemporary China."-The Journal of Asian
Studies
..."its contribution to the understanding of contemporary Chinese
private education is significant."-Comparative Education Review
"I believe ms. Lin has done an excellent job in nagigating readers
through the path of the devlopmen of private education in
China....Any reader, whether an educator or not, will benefit from
reading the book."-American Journal of Chienese Studies
"[T]he book's greatest value lies in the thorough and rich use made
of Chinese sources and the detailed insights this provides into the
world of educational debate within China....probably the most
thorough and up-to-date study yet to appear on the highly
significant topic of private education in China. It opens up many
questions that go far beyond education itself to the future shape
of Chinese society, polity, and economy. It should be of wide
interest to students scholars of comparative education, as well as
those interested in contemporary China."-The Journal of Asian
Studies
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