Public Participation in Addressing the Educational Problems of Primary and Secondary Schools:Subjects, Content and Mechanism
Author(s): ZHANG Tianxue, LI Li
Pages: 82-88
Year: 2015 Issue: 3
Journal: Journal of Zhejiang Normal University(Social Sciences)
Keyword: educational problem; problem addressing; public participation;
Abstract: Education, an issue closely related to people’ s livelihood, has always been plagued by prob-lems.The industry of education, with its goal of“building schools that satisfy people”, more often than not, puts people in an awkward position.The strings of problems, if left unaddressed, will be the hotbed for cor-ruption.However, to cleanse the educational environment with administrative policies alone is not enough to win people’ s support, while waging a war involving the public against educational problems is the key to stop-ping them from deteriorating.Subjects, content and mechanism should be sorted out so that joint efforts can be expected, key points can be highlighted and diverse means can be applied.The subjects participating in ad-dressing educational problems are, namely, the general public, students and teachers within schools, and grassroots’ education-related civil servants.The content of addressing educational problems is classified into 26 categories out of the convenience of the subjects.The mechanisms are divided into systematical and non-systematical ones, with nine sub-categories in all.
Pages: 82-88
Year: 2015 Issue: 3
Journal: Journal of Zhejiang Normal University(Social Sciences)
Keyword: educational problem; problem addressing; public participation;
Abstract: Education, an issue closely related to people’ s livelihood, has always been plagued by prob-lems.The industry of education, with its goal of“building schools that satisfy people”, more often than not, puts people in an awkward position.The strings of problems, if left unaddressed, will be the hotbed for cor-ruption.However, to cleanse the educational environment with administrative policies alone is not enough to win people’ s support, while waging a war involving the public against educational problems is the key to stop-ping them from deteriorating.Subjects, content and mechanism should be sorted out so that joint efforts can be expected, key points can be highlighted and diverse means can be applied.The subjects participating in ad-dressing educational problems are, namely, the general public, students and teachers within schools, and grassroots’ education-related civil servants.The content of addressing educational problems is classified into 26 categories out of the convenience of the subjects.The mechanisms are divided into systematical and non-systematical ones, with nine sub-categories in all.
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