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Kosik, Russell Oliver; Huang, Lei; Cai, Qiaoling; Xu, Guo-Tong; Zhao, Xudong; Guo, Li; Tang, Wen; Chen, Qi; Fan, Angela Pei-Chen – Chinese Education and Society, 2014
Today's doctor is as much a humanist as a scientist. Medical schools have responded to this change by introducing a variety of courses, most notably those concerning the humanities and ethics. Thus far, no one has examined the extent of use of these subjects in Chinese medical schools. The goal of this study is to determine how many and in what…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Education, Humanities Instruction, Ethical Instruction
Qingyang, Guo – Chinese Education and Society, 2013
Based on investigations in six midwestern provinces/autonomous regions, Hubei, Henan, Guangxi, Yunnan, Shaanxi, and Inner Mongolia, this article analyzes the reasons for problems in the process of consolidating rural schools and their solutions.
Descriptors: Consolidated Schools, School Closing, Rural Schools, Foreign Countries
Haibo, Yu – Chinese Education and Society, 2013
Rural school consolidation has significantly changed the landscape of rural education in China. Based on a study carried out in nine provinces, this article analyzes the effect of this policy initiative. It has led to increased school dropout rates in rural schools.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, Consolidated Schools, Dropout Rate
Yang, Po – Chinese Education and Society, 2013
This study analyzed 586 students from nine vocational high schools in three provinces in China. It found a substantial gap between the demand for and the supply of government financial aid. Moreover, correct student aid information and aid application was not equally distributed among various student groups. A financial aid application made a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Vocational Schools, High Schools
Hongyong, Jia; Fenfen, Zhou – Chinese Education and Society, 2013
Based on research involving 177 primary and secondary schools spread over thirty-eight counties in six provinces (including one autonomous region), this article explores and analyzes four modes used in rural school consolidation in China. These four modes are: complete amalgamation, annexation, crossover, and centralization-decentralization.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, Consolidated Schools, Elementary Schools
Song, Yingquan; Loyalka, Prashant; Wei, Jianguo – Chinese Education and Society, 2013
This article analyzes rural middle school students' tracking intentions (academic high school, vocational high school, or going to work), actual education choices, and the factors affecting them, using a random sampled baseline survey and follow-up survey of 2,216 second-year students residing outside of county seats in forty-one impoverished…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Junior High School Students, Rural Schools, Rural Areas
Mei, Dong; Fang, Chang; Yuanyan, Bai – Chinese Education and Society, 2013
With Shaanxi province as an example, this study presents empirical evidence on the effect of primary school consolidation in rural areas on student achievement, using the difference-in-differences method. The results show no significant differences in student achievement between consolidated schools and nonconsolidated schools. If student…
Descriptors: School Construction, Rural Schools, Primary Education, Elementary Schools
Xianzuo, Fan – Chinese Education and Society, 2013
Beginning in the late 1990s and especially since 2000, a new round of large-scale school consolidation has been introduced in rural communities in China. What is the background of this policy initiative? How has it been introduced and implemented? This article examines these issues.
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Taxes
Song, Huan – Chinese Education and Society, 2012
As mainland China seeks to implement its curriculum reforms, efforts to apply reform concepts emphasizing teacher empowerment have not been very successful. Theory and policy indicate that one possible solution is to establish a teachers' professional learning community (PLC). This study conducted a survey of thirty-two high schools in three…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, High Schools
Xu, Yuzhen; Wong, Hongbo – Chinese Education and Society, 2011
In an attempt to give a general but critical review of school-based curriculum development (SBCD) in China's new curriculum reform (NCR), this article discusses at length some issues remaining in SBCD, including misconceptions in Chinese discussions about SBCD, most significantly, the Chinese literal expression of the policy statement on…
Descriptors: Expertise, Curriculum Development, Position Papers, Policy Analysis
Yanqing, Ding – Chinese Education and Society, 2012
After a brief review of the achievements and the problems in compulsory education enrollment in the thirty years since the reform and opening up, this study analyzes the current compulsory education enrollment and dropout rates in China's least-developed regions and the factors affecting school enrollment based on survey data from a small sample…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Enrollment Rate, Dropout Rate, Compulsory Education
Hongcheng, Shen; Minhui, Qian – Chinese Education and Society, 2010
By means of an investigation into the school education of the Dai people in Dehong, Yunnan province, this article expounds on the interactive relationship between modern education and local culture and the problems of cultural adaptation among ethnic minority students. School education, as a symbol of state power, always endeavors to transform…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Minority Groups, Cultural Education, Cultural Maintenance
Songhua, Tan; Wang, Catherine Yan – Chinese Education and Society, 2012
The "National Medium- and Long-Term Educational Reform and Development Guideline (2010-20)" (hereafter abbreviated as the "Guideline") posits that the development of education must be driven by reform and innovation. It devotes six chapters to mapping out the targets, tasks, and major policy measures for reforming the…
Descriptors: Governance, Guidelines, Educational Change, Strategic Planning
Wang, Qing – Chinese Education and Society, 2014
As an external review mechanism, accreditation has played a positive global role in quality assurance and promotion of educational reform. Accreditation systems for medical education have been developed in more than 100 countries including China. In the past decade, Chinese standards for basic medical education have been issued together with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Education, Accreditation (Institutions), Quality Assurance
Guo, Longyan – Chinese Education and Society, 2010
Education by means of the Tibetan Classes (schools) in "neidi," or China's interior regions (or the Tibet Class), was a creative measure in the history of China's ethnic minority education, and the cross-cultural growth and experiences of the Tibetan students as they went to school in China's interior regions was of special significance…
Descriptors: Socialization, Asian Culture, Peer Relationship, Foreign Countries