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| ERIC #: | EJ756215 |
| Title: | Will the Chinese Learning Initiative Evoke the Long-Awaited Fifth Modernization? |
| Authors: | Boshier, Roger; Huang, Yan |
| Descriptors: | Global Approach; Foreign Countries; Research Methodology; Educational Change; Qualitative Research; Democracy; Lifelong Learning |
| Source: | Planning and Changing, v37 n1-2 p56-70 Spr-Sum 2006 |
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| Publisher: | Department of Educational Administration and Foundations. College of Education, Illinois State University, Campus Box 5900, Normal, IL 61790-5900. Tel: 309-438-2399; Fax: 309-438-8683; Web site: http://www.coe.ilstu.edu/eafdept/pandc/pandcmain.htm |
| Publication Date: | 2006-00-00 |
| Pages: | 15 |
| Pub Types: | Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative |
| Abstract: | Whenever scholars write about reforms in curriculum or teaching they often shine the spotlight on schools and schoolteachers. Education in formal settings is an important vehicle for responding to globalization, but educational reform in China has more to do with learning-out-of-school than listening to (often tyrannical and didactic) schoolteachers. The purposes of this study are twofold. First, the authors demonstrate curriculum reforms that can involve more than formal educational settings. Second, they provide a constructive appraisal of China's learning initiative. These purposes were achieved by: (1) Analyzing the socio-historical and conceptual foundations of Chinese notions of learning streets, neighborhoods, towns, and cities; (2) Identifying key elements in the Chinese learning initiative; and (3) Analyzing critical impediments to the Chinese learning initiative. This study involved document analysis and informal opportunistic qualitative research methods. In 2004 and 2005, the authors made four trips to China during which they collected extensive data about the learning initiative. The authors conclude that the People's Republic's embrace of learning is not a passing fad and may be a step along a road leading to the fifth modernization (democracy). |
| Abstractor: | ERIC |
| Reference Count: | 40 |
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| Note: | N/A |
| Identifiers: | China |
| Record Type: | Journal |
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| ISSN: | ISSN-0032-0684 |
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| Languages: | English |
| Education Level: | Adult Education |
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