Visions of Childhood: Influential Models from Locke to Spock (Early Childhood Education Series)

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Health, Fitness & Dieting

Cleverley, John

Phillips, D. C.

Psychology & Counseling

Teachers' College Press

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Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

In the Lap of Tigers: The Communist Labor University of Jiangxi Province

Founded in the forested mountains of China's remote Jiangxi Province in 1958, the Communist Labor University, along with some 100 branch campuses, introduced uneducated farmers and peasants to basic agricultural science and farming techniques through an innovative work-study program until 1980. Drawing on a wealth of archival materials, John Cleverley here explores the inner workings of this unique Chinese institution and the direct personal involvement in its affairs by the nation's key communist leaders, including Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, and Deng Xiaoping. The community would survive the dictates of political agriculture, famine and pestilence, and the Cultural Revolution, thus mirroring higher education's own cycle of expansion, contraction, and division. Yet the university could not avoid the bitter factional politics and deadly power plays of the 1970s. Open to the charge that it was a utopian experiment, another of Mao's great follies, its undoing was part of the larger canvas of China's shift from a Maoist vision to Deng's philosophy of pragmatic socialism. This fascinating story illuminates the internal and external politics of an innovative educational enterprise from both an institutional and personal perspective. In the process, the book underscores the larger issues of educational reform and political and social change in China.

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Founded in the forested mountains of ChinaOs remote Jiangxi Province in 1958, the Communist Labor University, along with some 100 branch campuses, introduced uneducated farmers and peasants to basic agricultural science and farming techniques through an innovative work-study program until 1980. Drawing on a wealth of archival materials, John Cleverley here explores the inner workings of this unique Chinese institution and the direct personal involvement in its affairs by the nationOs key communist leaders, including Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, and Deng Xiaoping. The community would survive the dictates of political agriculture, famine and pestilence, and the Cultural Revolution, thus mirroring higher education's own cycle of expansion, contraction, and division. Yet the university could not avoid the bitter factional politics and deadly power plays of the 1970s. Open to the charge that it was a utopian experiment, another of Mao's great follies, its undoing was part of the larger canvas of ChinaOs shift from a Maoist vision to DengOs philosophy of pragmatic socialism. This fascinating story illuminates the internal and external politics of an innovative educational enterprise from both an institutional and personal perspective. In the process, the book underscores the larger issues of educational reform and political and social change in China.

History

Asia

Schooling of China: Tradition and Modernity in Chinese Education

Unwin Hyman

This book evaluates the early attempts to modernize Chinese schooling, the Chinese response to western penetration, and the education in the Republic of China prior to the take-over by the Communist Party. It also details and assess the strengths and weaknesses of the immense Chinese school system and its remarkable achievements and continuing problems.

Allen& Unwin

This book evaluates early attempts to modernize Chinese schooling, the Chinese response to the penetration of Western ideas, and education in the Republic of China prior the the take-over by the Communist Party. China's education system is of immense international significance, containing 177 million students whose talents and skills will take China into the 21st century. China's remarkable achievements and continuing problems hold lessons for educators worldwide. The outcomes of the modernization of China's education system are of immense international significance. Its regular schools and universities contain some 177 million students -- a significant percentage of the world's young people -- whose talents and skills will take China into the 21st century. In these times of global interdependency, the young people of China must be considered a world resource, as well as a national one. Traditionally, education was highly valued in China. Prior to the modern period there were two distinctive kinds of schooling: one serving the high culture of a governing elite, the other the daily demands of the empire's industrious artisans and traders. Literally within living memory, this structure has been replaced by mass education based on modern schools. The formative years of the Communist Party of China brought new approaches to schooling based on inventive indigenous interpretations; the party gained significant first-hand experience in educational administration. After 1957, strenuous attempts were made to reconstruct schooling along local, socialist lines. The Cultural Revolution had a major impact, especially on teachers. Since 1977 the Chinese have sought to use their schools as an instrument of modernization, increasingly taking an outward-looking perspective. All students and researchers in Asian studies and comparative education will welcome this informative book. "John Cleverley is a long-time observer of Chinese education. He is Professor of Education, and Head of the School of Social and Policy Studies in Education, at the University of Sydney, and he makes regular visits to China. He is the author of many books and articles on education both in Australia and internationally.".

The Schooling of China

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Visions of Childhood: Influential Models from Locke to Spock (Early Childhood Education Series)

Visions of Childhood: Influential Models from Locke to Spock (Early Childhood Education Series)

In the Lap of Tigers: The Communist Labor University of Jiangxi Province

In the Lap of Tigers: The Communist Labor University of Jiangxi Province

Schooling of China: Tradition and Modernity in Chinese Education

Schooling of China: Tradition and Modernity in Chinese Education

The Schooling of China