The Logic of China’’s New School Reforms: Selected Essays on Education by Zhong Qiquan

This is a collection of essays on China’s new curriculum reforms in basic education, covering various aspects of the reforms ranging from education theory to classroom actitivity transofrmation, from teacher training to teaching quality evaluation. Prof. Zhong presents rich experiences in the reforms in the last decade as collisions between old ideas and new ones, marking the end of the Kairov Era pedagogy. This book discusses profound changes in China’s basic education, propelled by both top-down designs and bottom-up innovations from grass-root teachers.

Zhong Qiquan is Professor at the School of Education, East China Normal University, and honorary director of the Institute of International and Comparative Education at the same university. He has published over 100 articles on Chinese education, and authored, co-authored, and edited 23 books on educaiton since 1979.

Wan Hua is Professor at the School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai University.