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Education and Democracy in China
To Confine the Surging Tide from the Outside World, 1901â1937
Series: - Ideas, History, and Modern China, Volume: 31
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In this book, Ying Zhou argues that educational reform filled a critical role in bridging the precarious gap between democratic ideals and political realities in late Qing and Republican China, where institutional change in education and the cultivation of a qualified citizenry were two sides of the same coin in the development of democratic education.
Through a multi-level analysis of the (re)arrangements of national education and teachings of citizenship, Zhou unravels the complex political and educational nexus in China between 1901â1937, where the hope of education was to bring both political modernity and social progress.
Through a multi-level analysis of the (re)arrangements of national education and teachings of citizenship, Zhou unravels the complex political and educational nexus in China between 1901â1937, where the hope of education was to bring both political modernity and social progress.
Ying Zhou, Ph.D. (2021), University of Groningen, is an assistant professor at Xiamen University. Her current research project is concerned with pragmatism and progressive education in China and Japan.
Acknowledgements
Note on Romanisation
List of Figures and Tables
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
â1 Intertwining Themes of Education: Institutional Change and Enlightenment of the People
â2 Aims and Objectives of the Book
â3 Methodological Outline
â4 Structure of the Book
1 A Seismic Shift in Education in the Last Decade of the Empire, 1901â1911
â1 The Gestation of Fundamental Reform in Education
â2 The 1904 Educational System: A Trade-off as well as a Breakthrough
â3 The Constitutional Reform and its Implication for Education, 1905â1911
â4 Conclusion
2 New Education and Republican Politics, 1912â1923
â1 Educational Rearrangement and the Early Republican Politics, 1912â1916
â2 Whose Victory? the âNew Systemâ and Disputes on Education for Democracy, 1916â1922
â3 Actualising the Democratic Ideal: The 1923 Curricula
â4 Conclusion
3 Education, Democracy, and Nationalism in the Republic, 1923â1937
â1 Reflections on and Criticisms of New Education
â2 Education in the Nanjing Decade
â3 Education for Nationalist Democracy
â4 Conclusion
4 Self-cultivation: Moral Education under Challenge, 1904â1923
â1 Selection of Textbook Sources
â2 Self-Cultivation as a School Subject
â3 Self-Cultivation during 1904â1915: Teaching Morality, Democracy, and Citizenship
â4 Self-cultivation during 1915â1923: Failing to Offer an Arena for Democratic Education
â5 Conclusion
5 Citizenship: Education for Diverse Models of Democracy, 1923â1936
â1 Selection of textbook sources
â2 Citizenship as a School Subject
â3 Education for Citizenship in an Era of Intellectual Pluralism, 1923â1927
â4 Party education at the beginning of political tutelage, 1928â1932
â5 Citizenship Education in the Transition to Constitutional Rule, 1932â1936
â6 Conclusion
6 Conclusion: Education in a Society that Persistently Pursues Democracy
â1 Education within a Context of Constant Changes
â2 Educational and Socio-Political Reforms
â3 Democratic Ideals and the Actualisation of Education for Democracy
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
Note on Romanisation
List of Figures and Tables
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
â1 Intertwining Themes of Education: Institutional Change and Enlightenment of the People
â2 Aims and Objectives of the Book
â3 Methodological Outline
â4 Structure of the Book
1 A Seismic Shift in Education in the Last Decade of the Empire, 1901â1911
â1 The Gestation of Fundamental Reform in Education
â2 The 1904 Educational System: A Trade-off as well as a Breakthrough
â3 The Constitutional Reform and its Implication for Education, 1905â1911
â4 Conclusion
2 New Education and Republican Politics, 1912â1923
â1 Educational Rearrangement and the Early Republican Politics, 1912â1916
â2 Whose Victory? the âNew Systemâ and Disputes on Education for Democracy, 1916â1922
â3 Actualising the Democratic Ideal: The 1923 Curricula
â4 Conclusion
3 Education, Democracy, and Nationalism in the Republic, 1923â1937
â1 Reflections on and Criticisms of New Education
â2 Education in the Nanjing Decade
â3 Education for Nationalist Democracy
â4 Conclusion
4 Self-cultivation: Moral Education under Challenge, 1904â1923
â1 Selection of Textbook Sources
â2 Self-Cultivation as a School Subject
â3 Self-Cultivation during 1904â1915: Teaching Morality, Democracy, and Citizenship
â4 Self-cultivation during 1915â1923: Failing to Offer an Arena for Democratic Education
â5 Conclusion
5 Citizenship: Education for Diverse Models of Democracy, 1923â1936
â1 Selection of textbook sources
â2 Citizenship as a School Subject
â3 Education for Citizenship in an Era of Intellectual Pluralism, 1923â1927
â4 Party education at the beginning of political tutelage, 1928â1932
â5 Citizenship Education in the Transition to Constitutional Rule, 1932â1936
â6 Conclusion
6 Conclusion: Education in a Society that Persistently Pursues Democracy
â1 Education within a Context of Constant Changes
â2 Educational and Socio-Political Reforms
â3 Democratic Ideals and the Actualisation of Education for Democracy
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
This book would be of immediate interest and relevance for scholars, undergraduate and postgraduate students, teachers, academic and cultural institutes, and academic and research libraries, and all readers interested in: (1) Chinese modern history, especially the educational, political, and intellectual history of modern China; (2) educational studies, especially history and philosophy of education, educational policy, citizenship education, and comparative education; (3) political science, especially comparative politics and political history.