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1、UnequalCompulsoryEducationinRuralandUrbanChina 【Abstract】Inthisessay,theauthorwillmainlydiscussthesituationandproblemsincompulsoryeducationbylookingattheunequalopportunitiesandresourcesbetweenruralandurbanareasinChina,thentrytoillustratethereasonsabouttheinequity. 【K
2、eywords】CompulsoryEducation;Unequal;Rural;Urban 1.Introduction Nowadays,theeducationrightisthebasicrightofeachcitizen.Equaleducationopportunityistheprerequisiteofthisright.Compulsoryeducationisamajorpartofcitizens’educationrightthatenforcedbythestate.Itisimplementedb
3、ythepublicschoolsthatrunbythestate,butthefundingofpublicschoolsmainlycomesfromtaxpayers.Therefore,compulsoryeducationmustemphasisequality.However,Chinaisalargecountry,becauseoftheunbalancedeconomicdevelopmentofeachareasandthedeepinfluencebytraditioninpeople’sthought,ma
4、nyunequalphenomenaforstudentstoreceivecompulsoryeducation. 2.BackgroundofCompulsoryEducationinRuralandUrbanChina 2.1OpportunitiesofCompulsoryEducation First,thedifferentaccessbetweenurbanandruralChina.Duetodifferencesineconomicdevelopment,thereisadifferenceintheabil
5、ityofurbanandruraleducationinput,especiallyinprimarysecondaryeducationstage,theenrollmentrateofsecondaryschoolincityissignificantlyhigherthanthecountryside.Forexample,inHubeiprovince,in1998,therewere216,607graduatesfromelementaryschoolsincity,theenrollmentsofsecondarys
6、choolwere210,384,andtheenrollmentratewas97.13%.Whileinruralareas,thegraduatesfromelementarywere747,857,theenrollmentsofsecondaryschoolwereonly657,305,andtheenrollmentratewasonly87.89%,itwasnearly10%gapbetweentheseareas(MinistryofEducation,1999).Althoughasacountry’sciti
7、zens,eveninthesameprovince,becausethetownshipandvillagegovernmentdoesnotsetupenoughschools,someruralstudents’opportunitiestoreceivethecompulsoryeducationhavebeendeprivedruthlessly,whichwassignificantlyunfair. Secondly,therightforgirlstoreceivecompulsoryeducationisalwa
8、ysnotguaranteed.AccordingtotheresearchfromTan(2001),theenrollmentrateofprimaryforschool-agechildrenintheseareaswherep