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Educational philosophy in China: a centennial retrospect and prospect
LU Youquan, CHI Yanjie
Front. Educ. China. 2007, 2 (1): 13-29.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-007-0002-2
Educational philosophy in China during the 20th century started with the introduction of John Dewey s educational philosophy thoughts, followed by the dissemination of Marxism thoughts of education, and initially established the framework of educational philosophy as an academic discipline. After the foundation of the People s Republic of China in 1949, especially during the 1980s, under the guidance of Marxism, the discipline of educational philosophy has been maturing. While exploring China s history of educational philosophy, this article also covers contemporary Western development. Future trends of this discipline include extending specific fields of research, increasing internationalization of research, enhancing the functions of both critique and guiding ideals of educational philosophy.
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Returns to education in rural China
ZHAO Litao
Front. Educ. China. 2007, 2 (1): 30-47.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-007-0003-1
Based on one of the most widely used datasets by foreign-based sociologists, this paper examines the rate of returns to education in rural China. Compared with the previous studies that showed rather low rates in rural areas throughout the 1980s, this study finds a considerably higher rate in 1996. A chief contributor is the rapid non-agricultural development, which creates enormous upward mobility opportunities, particularly for the more educated. Due to the uneven economic development nationwide, the rate of returns to education varies widely across regions. In areas with less developed non-agricultural sectors, it remains low. In contrast, where off-farm employment is widespread, it is much higher. In addition, the labor market is functioning to allocate the more educated to better-paid jobs, but has yet to produce higher returns to education in non-agricultural sectors than in the agricultural sector. However, changes may be occurring in coastal regions.
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Education: a discipline or a field?
WANG Hongcai
Front. Educ. China. 2007, 2 (1): 63-73.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-007-0005-z
Historically, scholars have made unfailing efforts to position education as a standard science, but no solid success has been achieved regardless of the positivistic paradigm, quantitative approaches, or value-free neutral stances they adopted. In China, scholars have set up a so-called three independency standard for the scientific study of education, but it has been finally proved invalid in practice. As interdisciplines permeate the field of education, education experiences a crisis of being colonized. After serious rethinking, interdisciplines were widely believed to do more good than harm to education. Therefore, education is beginning to transform from a colony to an empire . In this transformation, education finds it necessary to break the traditional disciplinary boundaries and make it a field in which interdisciplinary communication is contributory to the enrichment of scholarship.
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The internal efficiency in higher education:
An analysis based on economies of scope
CHENG Gang , WU Keming
Front. Educ. China. 2007, 2 (1): 79-97.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-008-0005-7
Among the studies of the internal efficiency in higher education, most have focused on the scale of university (the economies of scale), but little on internal operating efficiency in higher education, especially on the combined efficiency of outputs (the economies of scope). There are few theoretical discussions or experimental research on whether teaching resources are complementary with research resources, or whether resources in undergraduate cultivation are shared with those in postgraduate training. In the background of the resource scarcity, it is significant to study the economies of scope in higher education to realize intensive development of higher education. Based on the multiproduct cost function and the data of universities attached to the Ministry of Education, this paper attempts to deal with the complementarities of resources used in undergraduate cultivation, postgraduate training and research to find that universities produce these outputs without sufficient resource sharing, the diseconomies of scope in postgraduate training is highest. As far as the quality of teaching and research are concerned, diseconomies of scope of the outputs are great. The main reasons are as follows: poor distribution of facilities, teachers and books, overlapping internal management systems, and the current postgraduate cultivation model. Therefore, relative departments should take internal resource sharing in higher education into account when making the administration policy of higher education.
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On the development of postdoctoral education in China
YAO Yun
Front. Educ. China. 2007, 2 (1): 89-102.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-007-0007-x
Having experienced three stages of preliminary establishment , rapid and comprehensive development and steady development for twenty years, China s postdoctoral system is moving towards a new one, the stage of quality improvement and innovation development. Remarkable achievements in the system include cultivating talented personnel, promoting the construction and development of disciplines, integrating production, learning and research, as well as scientific research achievements. However, some problems still exist in its managerial system, the science funds subsidized as well as the relationship between the mobile station and the workstation.1 Based on the above analysis, the author suggests that the postdoctoral system in the new era should be innovative in its systems of management, cultivation, funds collection, subvention and evaluation.
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The impact of overeducation on earnings in China
WU Xiangrong
Front. Educ. China. 2007, 2 (1): 123-154.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11516-008-0008-4
The paper estimates the returns to overeducation by the Over-Required and Undereducation (ORU) model. The estimated results indicate that the returns to overeducation are positive, but lower than the returns to required education, which suggests that while overeducated employees’ earnings are diminished, they still can benefit from it. The paper also attempts to estimate the returns to overeducation by occupations, industries and regions. The result shows that in the field where educational level has much to do with the skills required by employers, education-job match has a greater effect on one’s earnings, such as professionals and skilled persons. On the contrary, education-job mismatch has little effect on one’s earnings, such as non-skilled employees, administrative and clerical employees. In addition, the returns to overeducation are lower or insignificant for those working in competitive but lower paid industries and areas. Conversely, the returns to overeducation are higher for those working in the highly monopolized and highly paid industry and area. It can be argued that regardless of the incidence of overeducation, those with higher level of education prefer to choose the lower level of job in these industries and areas.
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