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The influence of urbanization process on the class size and the scale of school of compulsory education in china

Fu Weili Zhang Miao

Journal of East China Normal University(Educationa 2014, 32 (1): 1-10.

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The rapid urbanization process has led to the strong expansion of the scale of primary and secondary schools in some areas, this brings severe challenges to the adjustment about the class size and the scale of school of compulsory education in the urban and rural regions. There are two notable features on Compulsory education urbanization in China: firstly, the level of urbanization of the elementary school is lower than that of the city's overall development of urbanization in some populous provinces; secondly, the level of urbanization of junior high school is not only higher than that of the elementary school but also significantly surpasses that of the city’s urbanization. As for the following reasons, the slowing down of growth rate of the natural population ,the uncertain migration direction of the rural population, the unbalanced regional urbanization development and the recessive urbanization population explosion, there are several characteristics of school number and scale at the compulsory education,, including the total number is basic reasonable, different development between urban and rural areas, increasing pressure of covert growth of the student number, severe problems of the large class size in some areas. Several measures are suggested to solve the above problems, first to maintain the different balance between the number and scale of the school at two dimensions of rural and town; second, to keep consistent of the level of urbanization of education with the overall level of regional urbanization; third to cope with the uncertainty of floating population by using the flexibility student number of the small class; fourth to implement the scientific monitoring to the rapid urbanized big population province and the population in areas surrounding the center cities; fifth to establish the effective warning mechanism to control the class size and the school scale; sixth to improve the compulsory education coordination level; seventh to ensure that all levels governments are symmetrically in rights and obligations about the education of the floating population children.

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The development of Mandarin acquisition of Uygur children in Bilingual Preschools in Xinjiang

Zhou Jing & Li Chuanjiang & Du Lijun & Wang Feixia & Chen Si

Journal of East China Normal University(Educationa 2014, 32 (1): 11-19.

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This study explores the development of Mandarin acquisition of Uygur children in Xinjiang. Participants are 384 Uygur children aged from three to six randomly selected from 24 local bilingual kindergartens. PPVT, EVT and other language tools are applied to assess children’s language development. Children's development of MLU, as well as other measurement, is also examined through electronic language database analysis (CHILDES). Findings show a development profile that children’s receptive language, expressive language, narrative language, academic language and MLU gradually develop as with ages. Result also indicates that there are some characteristics of young Uygur children in learning Mandarin Chinese. Therefore, suggestions are made to promote early bilingual education in Xinjiang as follows. First, an integrative and balanced model could be adopted for bilingual environment of preschool education; Second, attention should be paid to introduction of reading and picture books at the early age due to the gap of Mandarin acquisition between ethnic preschool children and Han children; Third a high quality Mandarin language input process should be built for ethnic minority Children

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A Survey on the School Life Condition of Children from Fifteen Regions Nationwide

Xiao-Wen Li & Xiao-Li Wang

Journal of East China Normal University(Educationa 2014, 32 (1): 20-31.

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The questionnaire survey is conducted on 20804 students of grade three to grade eight from fifteen provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions. The study shows the following findings: first, on the whole, the quality of school life condition of primary school students is better than that of the middle school students; Second the quality of life condition of the students from the more reputable schools is better than that of students from ordinary schools and town and village schools; Third, the weak internal motivation of learning leads to the strong pragmatic and instrumental orientation; Fourth, educational atmosphere exhibits the following features of cultural transformation: Authoritative teachers are with strong appetency; on the other hand, the education methods are generally oversimplified. The class collective culture is poorly constructed but evidently related to the learning status of the students, the concept of learning and teacher-student relationship.

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