Author: Thomas D. Curran
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
This study examines the history of modern education in Republican China and analyzes its interaction with China's traditional educational heritage. In the first decade of the 20th century, the Chinese government introduced a new, national system of education, hoping that doing so would produce for China the human resources it needed to save itself from foreign encroachment. The new structure, however, was designed in accordance to foreign models that were hardly suited to conditions in China, and it had to compete with a strong indigenous educational tradition that was intimately associated with important features of Chinese social structure. Ultimately, when evaluated in the reformers' own hopes and expectations the new schools were a failure. Often referred to as the foreign eight-legged essay, they contributed to the destruction of a system of schooling that had helped to integrate traditional Chinese society by providing, at minimum, an avenue for upward mobility that most people considered fair and an introduction to an intellectual and literary heritage that all Chinese could claim as their own. considered alien, and a new set of neither institutions that produced the skilled manpower that the reformers sought nor the channel for upward mobility that elite aspirants wanted. By reforming the schools, instead of saving China, the reformers contributed to the disintegration for which the Republican Period is aptly remembered.
Educational Reform in Republican China
Author: Thomas D. Curran
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
This study examines the history of modern education in Republican China and analyzes its interaction with China's traditional educational heritage. In the first decade of the 20th century, the Chinese government introduced a new, national system of education, hoping that doing so would produce for China the human resources it needed to save itself from foreign encroachment. The new structure, however, was designed in accordance to foreign models that were hardly suited to conditions in China, and it had to compete with a strong indigenous educational tradition that was intimately associated with important features of Chinese social structure. Ultimately, when evaluated in the reformers' own hopes and expectations the new schools were a failure. Often referred to as the foreign eight-legged essay, they contributed to the destruction of a system of schooling that had helped to integrate traditional Chinese society by providing, at minimum, an avenue for upward mobility that most people considered fair and an introduction to an intellectual and literary heritage that all Chinese could claim as their own. considered alien, and a new set of neither institutions that produced the skilled manpower that the reformers sought nor the channel for upward mobility that elite aspirants wanted. By reforming the schools, instead of saving China, the reformers contributed to the disintegration for which the Republican Period is aptly remembered.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
This study examines the history of modern education in Republican China and analyzes its interaction with China's traditional educational heritage. In the first decade of the 20th century, the Chinese government introduced a new, national system of education, hoping that doing so would produce for China the human resources it needed to save itself from foreign encroachment. The new structure, however, was designed in accordance to foreign models that were hardly suited to conditions in China, and it had to compete with a strong indigenous educational tradition that was intimately associated with important features of Chinese social structure. Ultimately, when evaluated in the reformers' own hopes and expectations the new schools were a failure. Often referred to as the foreign eight-legged essay, they contributed to the destruction of a system of schooling that had helped to integrate traditional Chinese society by providing, at minimum, an avenue for upward mobility that most people considered fair and an introduction to an intellectual and literary heritage that all Chinese could claim as their own. considered alien, and a new set of neither institutions that produced the skilled manpower that the reformers sought nor the channel for upward mobility that elite aspirants wanted. By reforming the schools, instead of saving China, the reformers contributed to the disintegration for which the Republican Period is aptly remembered.
Education and Society in Republican China
Author: Thomas Daniel Curran
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
The Dewey Experiment in China
Author: Barry Keenan
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Yankee Confucius -- John Dewey's Visit to China -- John Dewey's Lectures in China -- Educational Reform -- The New Education Reform Movement: its Origins and Development to 1922 -- T'ao Hsing-Chih and Educational Reform, 1922-1929 -- The Denouement: Educational Reform at the End of the 1920s -- Pragmatic Politics and Reform Ideology -- Experimental Politics -- A Table of the Published Chinese Sources of John Dewey's Lectures Delivered in China, 1919-1921 -- John Dewey's Major Lecture Series, Published Articles, and Professional Activities During His Visit to China -- Translations of John Dewey's Works Into Chinese -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index -- Harvard East Asian Monographs.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Yankee Confucius -- John Dewey's Visit to China -- John Dewey's Lectures in China -- Educational Reform -- The New Education Reform Movement: its Origins and Development to 1922 -- T'ao Hsing-Chih and Educational Reform, 1922-1929 -- The Denouement: Educational Reform at the End of the 1920s -- Pragmatic Politics and Reform Ideology -- Experimental Politics -- A Table of the Published Chinese Sources of John Dewey's Lectures Delivered in China, 1919-1921 -- John Dewey's Major Lecture Series, Published Articles, and Professional Activities During His Visit to China -- Translations of John Dewey's Works Into Chinese -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index -- Harvard East Asian Monographs.
Radicalism and Education Reform in 20th-Century China
Author: Suzanne Pepper
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521778602
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
The first comprehensive book to cover the whole sweep of twentieth-century Chinese education.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521778602
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
The first comprehensive book to cover the whole sweep of twentieth-century Chinese education.
Education in China
Author: Xiaohuan Su
Publisher: 五洲传播出版社
ISBN: 9787801139931
Category : Adult education
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The chapters in this book consider the past and present of education in China, elementary education, vocational education, higher education, adult education, education for ethnic minorities, modern distance education, teacher education and teachers, international exchanges and cooperation, the education funding system, and the study of education as a science.
Publisher: 五洲传播出版社
ISBN: 9787801139931
Category : Adult education
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The chapters in this book consider the past and present of education in China, elementary education, vocational education, higher education, adult education, education for ethnic minorities, modern distance education, teacher education and teachers, international exchanges and cooperation, the education funding system, and the study of education as a science.
A School in Every Village
Author: Elizabeth R. VanderVen
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774821787
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
In the early 1900s, the Qing dynasty implemented a nationwide school system to buttress its power. Although the Communists, contemporary observers, and more recent scholarship have all depicted rural society as feudal and these educational reforms a failure, Elizabeth VanderVen draws on untapped archival materials to show that villagers and local officials capably integrated foreign ideas and models into a system that was at once traditional and modern, Chinese and Western. Her portrait of education reform both challenges received notions about the modernity-tradition binary in Chinese history, and addresses topics central to debates on modern China, including state making and the impact of global ideas on local society.
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774821787
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
In the early 1900s, the Qing dynasty implemented a nationwide school system to buttress its power. Although the Communists, contemporary observers, and more recent scholarship have all depicted rural society as feudal and these educational reforms a failure, Elizabeth VanderVen draws on untapped archival materials to show that villagers and local officials capably integrated foreign ideas and models into a system that was at once traditional and modern, Chinese and Western. Her portrait of education reform both challenges received notions about the modernity-tradition binary in Chinese history, and addresses topics central to debates on modern China, including state making and the impact of global ideas on local society.
The Politics of Education Reform in China’s Hong Kong
Author: Sonny Shiu-Hing Lo
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000566307
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Education reform has become a highly political issue in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) since the transfer of sovereignty to the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Lo and Hung focus on the political struggles among stakeholders, including the government of Hong Kong, the Catholic Church, parents, students, teachers, the central authorities of Beijing, and even the bureaucratic politics between Beijing, the Hong Kong government and the Examination Authority. They examine the key elements of education reform in the HKSAR, including language and curriculum reform, national security education, civic and patriotic education, the rise of the pro-Beijing education elites and interest groups, and the revamp of examination questions and examination authority. The entire education reform in the HKSAR has pushed the Hong Kong education system toward a process of mainlandization, making Hong Kong’s education system more similar to the mainland system with emphasis on political "correctness" in the understanding of Chinese national security, history and culture. Highlighting the political struggles among the various stakeholders, this book is essential for scholars of Hong Kong and China, especially those with an interest in the relationship between education and politics.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000566307
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Education reform has become a highly political issue in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) since the transfer of sovereignty to the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Lo and Hung focus on the political struggles among stakeholders, including the government of Hong Kong, the Catholic Church, parents, students, teachers, the central authorities of Beijing, and even the bureaucratic politics between Beijing, the Hong Kong government and the Examination Authority. They examine the key elements of education reform in the HKSAR, including language and curriculum reform, national security education, civic and patriotic education, the rise of the pro-Beijing education elites and interest groups, and the revamp of examination questions and examination authority. The entire education reform in the HKSAR has pushed the Hong Kong education system toward a process of mainlandization, making Hong Kong’s education system more similar to the mainland system with emphasis on political "correctness" in the understanding of Chinese national security, history and culture. Highlighting the political struggles among the various stakeholders, this book is essential for scholars of Hong Kong and China, especially those with an interest in the relationship between education and politics.
Education and Democracy in China
Author: Zhou Ying
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004687882
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In this book, Ying Zhou argues that educational reform filled a critical role in bridging the precarious gap between democratic ideals and political realities in late Qing and Republican China, where institutional change in education and the cultivation of a qualified citizenry were two sides of the same coin in the development of democratic education. Through a multi-level analysis of the (re)arrangements of national education and teachings of citizenship, Zhou unravels the complex political and educational nexus in China between 1901–1937, where the hope of education was to bring both political modernity and social progress.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004687882
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In this book, Ying Zhou argues that educational reform filled a critical role in bridging the precarious gap between democratic ideals and political realities in late Qing and Republican China, where institutional change in education and the cultivation of a qualified citizenry were two sides of the same coin in the development of democratic education. Through a multi-level analysis of the (re)arrangements of national education and teachings of citizenship, Zhou unravels the complex political and educational nexus in China between 1901–1937, where the hope of education was to bring both political modernity and social progress.
The Alienated Academy
Author: Wen-Hsin Yeh
Publisher: Harvard Univ Asia Center
ISBN: 9780674002845
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
The enormous changes in twentieth-century Chinese higher education up to the Sino-Japanese War are detailed in this pioneering work. Yeh examines the impact of instruction in English and of the introduction of science and engineering into the curriculum. Such innovations spurred the movement of higher education away from the gentry academies focused on classical studies and propelled it toward modern middle-class colleges with diverse programs. Yeh provides a typology of Chinese institutions of higher learning in the Republican period and detailed studies of representative universities. She also describes student life and prominent academic personalities in various seats of higher learning. Social changes and the political ferment outside the academy affected students and faculty alike, giving rise, as Yeh contends, to a sense of alienation on the eve of war.
Publisher: Harvard Univ Asia Center
ISBN: 9780674002845
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
The enormous changes in twentieth-century Chinese higher education up to the Sino-Japanese War are detailed in this pioneering work. Yeh examines the impact of instruction in English and of the introduction of science and engineering into the curriculum. Such innovations spurred the movement of higher education away from the gentry academies focused on classical studies and propelled it toward modern middle-class colleges with diverse programs. Yeh provides a typology of Chinese institutions of higher learning in the Republican period and detailed studies of representative universities. She also describes student life and prominent academic personalities in various seats of higher learning. Social changes and the political ferment outside the academy affected students and faculty alike, giving rise, as Yeh contends, to a sense of alienation on the eve of war.
Educational Reform in Early Twentieth-century China
Author: Marianne Bastid
Publisher: U of M Center for Chinese Studies
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Marianne Bastid-Bruguiere's important study on the work of Zhang Jian and the educational reforms in the last years of the Qing dynasty, 1901-1912
Publisher: U of M Center for Chinese Studies
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Marianne Bastid-Bruguiere's important study on the work of Zhang Jian and the educational reforms in the last years of the Qing dynasty, 1901-1912