Journal of East China Normal University(Educationa ›› 2018, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (5): 1-19+165.doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2018.05.001

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Review of Educational Institution Change in China (1978-2018): A Text Analysis of Educational Policies and Laws

FAN Guorui   

  1. The Institute of Schooling Reform and Development, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
  • Online:2018-09-20 Published:2018-09-14

Abstract: To celebrate the 40th anniversary of reform and opening-up, this paper presents a text analysis to examine the educational institution change and innovation in the setting of the economic, political and social reform in China in the past 40 years. It reviews, summarizes and reflects on the complicated change and innovation process of China's educational institution. The study finds that in the past 40 years of reform and opening-up, the educational institution reform has undergone different stages of development, including the restoration and reconstruction of the educational institution, the comprehensive educational system reform, the experiment of market-based institutional change to promote the educational development, the shift of the educational policy focus from efficiency to equality, and promoting the comprehensive reform in the field of education to accelerate the modernization of the system and capacity of the education governance. This paper is a holistic examination of the change process of China's educational institution, as well as its achievements and pitfalls. This examination helps to offer some implications from a historical perspective for the optimization of the education institution with Chinese characteristics and the new development of China's education in the future.

Key words: reform and opening-up, educational institution, institutional change, institutional innovation