TY  - CHAP
AB  - This chapter integrates current Chinese education reform into the unique socioeconomic context of China in a transitional time and explores the complexity of education decentralization in China through an in-depth analysis on changes in education finance, administration, and curriculum development. Mark Hanson's theory of education decentralization is cited to build a conceptual framework for examining education decentralization in China. Previous studies, government documents, laws, and regulations related to the current wave of Chinese education reform are reviewed to capture a true picture of education decentralization in China. In investigating the background, actual actions, and motive of the current Chinese education reform, the chapter demonstrates that the on-going Chinese education reform is moving toward a centralized decentralization. Linking education with the unified national goal of economic modernization, the paradoxical mixture of centralization and decentralization is a strategic means to avoid loss of centralized control. Literature on decentralization reform in Chinese education primarily concentrates on changed Chinese education policies in the reform. This chapter places the focus on the contextual factors that shape the decentralization trend in current reform.
VL  - 15
SN  - 978-1-78052-186-2, 978-1-78052-187-9/1479-3679
DO  - 10.1108/S1479-3679(2011)0000015005
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-3679(2011)0000015005
AU  - Qi Tingting
ED  - Tiedan Huang
ED  - Alexander W. Wiseman
PY  - 2011
Y1  - 2011/01/01
TI  - Moving Toward Decentralization? Changing Education Governance in China After 1985
T2  - The Impact and Transformation of Education Policy in China
T3  - International Perspectives on Education and Society
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 19
EP  - 41
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -