Emergency Of Modern Chinese Schooling Case Study
1. Emergency of Modern Chinese Schooling: The End of Qing Dynasty
The First Opium War (a.k.a The First Anglo-Sino) in 1840 marks the birth of modern China. The war had successfully forced the Qing court to open up the country to western societies with series of unequal treaties and transform the feudal society into a colonized and capitalized one. The traditional Chinese education system which had been founded upon Confucian Classic was brought under challenge of modern schools introduced by Western Missionary (Cleverley, 1985).
Establishment of early western schools was completed by Protestant and Roman Catholics. In mission schools, children were taught to speak foreign languages of the home church, religious knowledge and modern science …show more content…
As productive work became the priority, Directive on Education Work in 1958 emphasized the integration of mental education and physical labor (CCCPC, 1958). In response to the document, productive labor was a mandatory subject to both teachers and students in all level of education and the subject remained in schools in Cultural Revolution periods.
Cultural Revolution started in 1960s was believed to be a catastrophe to Chinese modern education where intellectuals were ill reputed, put into the “stinking ninth category” and sent to do manual works to achieve a self-revolution. All schools were under close surveillance of red guards, college entrance examination was abolished and universities and higher institutes were under control of People Liberation Army. The availability of education at all levels was decided by family class origins, political attitude by the means of recommendation and selection. (Cleverley, 1985).
After the Recovery of Gaokao: Since
The First Opium War (a.k.a The First Anglo-Sino) in 1840 marks the birth of modern China. The war had successfully forced the Qing court to open up the country to western societies with series of unequal treaties and transform the feudal society into a colonized and capitalized one. The traditional Chinese education system which had been founded upon Confucian Classic was brought under challenge of modern schools introduced by Western Missionary (Cleverley, 1985).
Establishment of early western schools was completed by Protestant and Roman Catholics. In mission schools, children were taught to speak foreign languages of the home church, religious knowledge and modern science …show more content…
As productive work became the priority, Directive on Education Work in 1958 emphasized the integration of mental education and physical labor (CCCPC, 1958). In response to the document, productive labor was a mandatory subject to both teachers and students in all level of education and the subject remained in schools in Cultural Revolution periods.
Cultural Revolution started in 1960s was believed to be a catastrophe to Chinese modern education where intellectuals were ill reputed, put into the “stinking ninth category” and sent to do manual works to achieve a self-revolution. All schools were under close surveillance of red guards, college entrance examination was abolished and universities and higher institutes were under control of People Liberation Army. The availability of education at all levels was decided by family class origins, political attitude by the means of recommendation and selection. (Cleverley, 1985).
After the Recovery of Gaokao: Since