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Education Under China’S Market Economy: A Case Study Of Urban And Rural Teachers In Hunan Province, Qing Li
Education Under China’S Market Economy: A Case Study Of Urban And Rural Teachers In Hunan Province, Qing Li
Comparative and International Education / Éducation Comparée et Internationale
The purpose of this article to investigate the working and living conditions of teachers under China’s market economy, with a focus on urban and rural schools. This paper is a case study of teachers in Hunan province, representing Central China. A total of eighteen teachers in seven different schools participated in the study.
The analysis of data shows that teachers experience change of teaching as reflected in the shift to learner-centred approaches, as well as changes of curriculum, textbooks and teacher evaluation. Under market economy, Chinese educational system still possesses urban rural inequalities, for the same or different reasons. The …