Jun 2007, Volume 2 Issue 2
    

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  • Focusing on Chinese education equity
    YANG Dongping
    2007, 2(2): 149-150. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-007-0012-0
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  • Are equity and effi ciency irreconcilable goals in education? —A general equilibrium analysis of basic education fi nance in China
    DING Weili, LU Ming
    2007, 2(2): 163-180. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-007-0014-y
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    Lacking guidance of general equilibrium (GE) theories in public economics and the corresponding proper mechanisms, China has not surprisingly witnessed an inequality in educational expenditures across regions as well as insuffici
  • Can low tuition fee policy improve higher education equity and social welfare?
    ZHA Xianyou, DING Shouhai
    2007, 2(2): 181-190. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-007-0015-x
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    Traditionally there has been a theoretical view that raising tuition fees will undermine education equity and social welfare. This study examines the effects of different tuition policies on both these factors. A statistical analysis is made on the theoretical relationship between higher education tuition fees and dropout probability, which leads to the conclusion that the effects of both policies on education equity vary with circumstances. Further, under severe polarization between the rich and the poor in China, low tuition fee policy fails to effectively improve access to higher education and social welfare for low-income groups. On the contrary, high tuition fee policy may have better effectiveness.
  • How should “self-regard” be treated in moral education
    HU Zhongping
    2007, 2(2): 201-213. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-007-0017-8
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    One of the main reasons of the fact that Chinese moral education could hardly get out of its predicament is that self-regard  has been simply and unilaterally interpreted as the absolute opposite to morality, where self-regard  is merely regarded as the source of everything evil , and the fact that it is also the source of everything good  is neglected. Actually, self-regard  is the nature of human beings who go for benefit and avoid harm, which is inevitable and reasonable. It is not naturally opposite to altruism, for there is no problem concerning morality in self-regard itself, though there might be some in the means adopted. Therefore, the aim of moral education is not to deprive a person of his/her intention of self-regard, but to normalize the means he/she might adopt, so that he/she could suitably benefit himself/herself as he/she benefits others. It is proven by the past experience and the present situation that the key premise for the Chinese moral education to get out of its predicament is to set up a correct understanding over self-regard.
  • The Sinicization of pedagogy for one century
    ZHANG Zhonghua
    2007, 2(2): 214-228. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-007-0018-7
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    Pedagogy was initially imported into China, known as a discipline imported from abroad . The introduction of Pedagogy and its Sinicization almost went hand in hand. The Sinicization has gone through six stages, which showed that more attention should be paid to Chinese educational reality, scientific research methods and the relationship between academic research and ideology. What is more, original research should be advocated and the relationship between national cultural and educational heritage and foreign educational theory should also be handled well.
  • A deep reflection on the "key school system" in basic education in China
    YOU Yongheng
    2007, 2(2): 229-239. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-007-0019-6
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    Since the 1980s, key school system  (KSS) in basic education has contributed to teaching quality and the development of some schools. However, at the same time it brings about many serious problems such as failure to attain educational objective, being away from the goal of education equity, arising students  mental or emotional problems, lack of moral education, vicious competition among schools and so on. It can be said that the present educational problems are tied closely to KSS . As a result, this paper attempts to do a deep reflection on it to promote the education reform of China.
  • The ratio of public investment in education in China
    LIU Zeyun, YUAN Liansheng
    2007, 2(2): 240-249. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-007-0020-0
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    Based on cross-section data worldwide and time series data in China, the essay is intended to make an analysis of the factors which have impacts on the ratio of public investment in education by using econometric models and then the future ratio may be predicted. Conclusions are as follows. First, the proportion of fiscal revenue to GDP (gross domestic products) is the most significant variable to predict the variance in the ratio of public investment in education in China. Second, experience in middle-income countries should be given top priority when international comparison is made. Third, the ratio of public investment in education in China will be close to 4% in 2010, and reach 4.4% 4.5% in 2020.
  • Reconstruction of the financial system in early childhood education in China
    CAI Yingqi, FENG Xiaoxia
    2007, 2(2): 250-258. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-007-0021-z
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    This paper presents a profile about the financial system of the early childhood education (ECE) in China. The problems discussed are related to (1) segmentation of Tiao and Kuai (some education institutions are directly administered by provincial governments, and some were affiliated to the relative administrative departments of the state), (2) inequality, (3) indistinct responsibility in investment of all levels, and (4) the challenge of reform. On the basis of the current situation in China, ECE and international experience, this paper aims at putting forward suggestions on how to reconstruct the financial system for ECE and also how to make relevant provision of laws and regulations to make various levels of governments, children s parents, kindergartens and communities share economic responsibility of ECE.
  • Influence of educational attainment on consumption
    ZHANG Xuemin, HE Youning
    2007, 2(2): 259-272. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-007-0022-y
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    In market economy, man is both the essential productive factor and the consuming subject. Education promotes the two aspects. As shown by investigations on the influence of educational attainment on consumption, education has great influences on people s consumption level, consumption structure, consumption modes and consumption concepts. The world is entering the stage when people are paying more attention to environmental protection, ecological balance, and the building of harmonious society. Therefore, economics of education should not only focus on the exploitation and cultivation of human capital in the instrumental aspect of man, and for the sake of his all-round development, it should also center on the enhancement of consumption level, consumption concepts, rational consumption and consumption skills.
  • The transformation of the focus of educational research from “teaching object” to “teaching subject”: a case study of Harvard Educational Review
    DU Xiaoli
    2007, 2(2): 273-285. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-007-0023-x
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    With the content analysis method, this paper uses statistic evidence and analysis of the discourses in Harvard Educational Review (HER) from 1931 to 2000 to discuss the transformation of educational research, which has turned from teaching object  to teaching subject . What is more, education research is not only aimed at pursuing the efficiency of teaching, but also showing more concern for the individuals in the process of teaching.
  • Institutional view of part-time faculty management in higher education institutes in china
    LI Zhifeng, JIANG Xiulan, LI Hongbo
    2007, 2(2): 286-297. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-007-0024-9
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    Part-time faculty has become an important labor force in Chinese colleges and universities. The number of them has risen rapidly and its structure varies in different types of higher education institutes (HEIs), which results from integration of the social motivation and the inner motivation of schools  reform. From the institutional point of view, some problems related to the management of part-time faculty members are as follows: defects of institution design, deficiency of appointment institution mechanism, unreasonable wage treatment institution and unscientific evaluation institution. The institution construction of pat-time staff includes aspects such as qualification examination, appointment, wage, reward and punishment, evaluation, professional development and so on.
  • On the relationship between research productivity and teaching effectiveness at research universities
    WEI Hong, CHENG Xuezhu, ZHAO Ke
    2007, 2(2): 298-306. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-007-0025-8
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    As an empirical study based on undergraduate ratings of 2364 teachers lecturing in different courses during four semesters in Beijing Normal University, this paper studies the relationship between teaching effectiveness and research productivity. The results show that both of them are positively correlated, that is to say, teaching effectiveness benefits from research productivity.