TY - BOOK ID - 135978321 TI - The impact and transformation of education policy in China AU - Huang, Tiedan AU - Wiseman, Alexander W PY - 2011 SN - 1283406365 9786613406361 1780521871 9781780521879 9781283406369 PB - Bingley, U.K. Emerald DB - UniCat KW - Education and state KW - Education UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135978321 AB - This volume of the International Perspectives on Education and Society series examines the transformation of education policy in China, with a special emphasis on transformations in the post-1978 period. While educational policy has experienced major shifts and reversals since the founding of the Peoples Republic of China in 1949, the late 1970s and the early1980s signalled a significant shift in Chinas openness and willingness to make widespread and rapid changes in education to meet the demands of an increasingly market-oriented economy. These educational policy changes are inextricably linked to Chinas increasing interest and participation in the global community abroad and the social-economic transformation and somewhat loosened political environment at home. With the special emphasis on policy change and its subsequent impact on different aspects of education at various levels of educational institutions, particularly in areas of educational financing and curriculum reform, this volume attempts to bridge the dichotomy between critics and advocates of Chinese educational transformations, recognize the importance and impact that educational policy in China has not only on one of the largest national populations in the world, but also on other (and often competing) countrys systems and provide relevant scholarship to inform policy and practice. ER -