Education in China and Abroad: Perspectives from a Lifetime in Comparative Education

 

by

Gu Mingyuan

 

Introduction by

Ruth Hayhoe

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gu Mingyuan is one of China’s most distinguished specialists in the field of comparative education. He is a long-serving of the China Comparative Education Society, and in 2000 he was elected President of the Chinese Education Society. Yet because most of his works have been published only in Chinese, they have been little-known internationally.

This book presents a collection of Professor Gu’s writings over a 20-year period from the early 1980s. Each chapter is a valuable piece in its own right; and, taken together, the chapters show the development both of Professor Gu’s thinking and of the field as a whole during a period of dramatic changes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contents

 

 

Part I: Comparative Education and Educational Reform in China

1.          Modern Production and Modern Education

2.          The Development of Higher Education in the Modern World, and Higher Education Reform in China

3.          The Key to Successful Education Reform: A Shift in Ideology

4.          Some Issues Concerning Teaching Reforms in Higher Institutions

5.          A Discussion on Higher Teacher-Education Reform

6.          A Complete and Accurate Understanding of Mao Zedong's Thought

7.          Modernisation and Education in Cultural Traditions in China

8.  The Complete Shift in Educational Ideas: Twenty Years of Ideological Liberation

Part II: Reflections on Education Abroad and At Home

8.          Basic Education Reforms in the USSR

9.          Educational Development in the USSR 1917-87: Lessons for China

10.      The Nature and Implications of Educational Development: A Global Analysis

11.      National Cultural Traditions and their Transformation

12.      Cultural Differences and Perspectives on the Roles of Teachers and Students in China and the United States

13.      Learning from Each Other: A Comparative Study of Education in China and Japan

14.  A Response to the Challenge of the New Era: Educational Reform      for the 21st Century

Part III: Comparative Education Theory and Methods

15. Issues in the Development of Comparative Education in China

16. Comparative Education: Retrospect and Prospect

17 .Comparative Education in China: Name and Reality

18. The Internationalisation of Education and Comparative Education

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Publisher:  Comparative Education Research Centre, The University of Hong Kong

Date:                June 2001

ISBN:                962-8093-70-3

Price:                US$32 (sea mail postage included)

 

 


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