Comprehensive Reform of Regional Education: Origin and Theory
The Chinese central government’s determination to promote comprehensive educational reform (CER) is not only a policy signpost for the nation as a whole but also a golden opportunity for the local governments to bolster up regional educational development
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Comprehensive Reform of Regional Education: Origin and Theory
The Chinese central government’s determination to promote comprehensive educational reform (CER) is not only a policy signpost for the nation as a whole but also a golden opportunity for the local governments to bolster up regional educational development. The comprehensive educational reform is a systematic but not necessarily a one-size-fits-all approach. The regional authorities are required to implement and accelerate the reform. However, the implementation of comprehensive reform does not necessarily mean to take the regulations literally in complete disregard of the local conditions or ignore the regulations and take an utterly different approach. Then comes the question: What does comprehensive educational reform mean on the regional level? What are the lessons to be learned from the past? What is the prospect of future? What constitutes the legal and theoretical basis for it? What is the value to promote it? Owing to the profound division and integration of modern science, it has become increasingly difficult to explain the issues in education from one-dimensional perspective. With the deepening of reform in China, people are apt to adopt an interdisciplinary approach to address the root cause of the issues. The rise of educational ecology and area studies offers us a fresh perspective in exploring regional education reform.
1.1 Define the Terms: Region, Regional Education and Comprehensive Reform of Regional Education Regional education is constrained by the economic conditions and other factors and its developmental model and speed vary from region to region. This is a typical feature of China’s educational development. The concept of regional education can be traced back to the 1980s when China’s regional economic development boosted the local governments’ enthusiasm to promote the development of local education. Admittedly, regional disparity in China’s economic development is a fact of life. Although regional educational development is not necessarily in proportion to the © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. and Educational Science Publishing House 2020 G. Liu and X. Wang, Comprehensive Regional Reform, Research in Chinese Education, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6914-2_1
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increase in its economic prosperity, it cannot be denied that there is a high correlation between the two factors.
1.1.1 Region: A Relative Spatial Scope Region, originally a basic term in geography to study the definable characteristics of a particular area, is later widely used in economics, sociology, biology and other disciplines. It refers to an area of land that is unique and distinguishable by such features as political factors, physical landscape, economic conditions and social environment. It is a complex and interrelated entity comprised of natural environment, resources, population, economic and social institutions, infrastructure and cultural and educational background. But this is
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