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https://doi.org/10.14943/b.edu.139.125

https://hdl.handle.net/2115/83804

The implementation status of China’s National Training Program policy and its significance : focusing on the professionalization of teacher education and resolving educational disparities

日本語

Educational inequality

2021-12-24

Faculty of Education, Hokkaido University

Bulletin of Faculty of Education, Hokkaido University

139

125-143

　The purpose of this paper is to clarify the following three points. Firstly, examine China’s teacher training system framework in which the National Training Program policy conception was envisaged and formulated into a program. Secondly, analyze the process in which the National Training Program was implemented and the implementation status of National Training Program policy in China. Thirdly, clarify what the policy means for teacher education and the school system. 　First, this study draws from previous research to outline how the teacher training system has changed from the 1980s to the present, then identifies the National Training Program’s role in this system in view of China’s teacher training system history. For example, the teacher training system in the 1980s was mainly aimed at getting trained teachers to “acquire an educational background that meets the nationally prescribed educational background”. Since the 1990s, the central government has built a training system based on the conception of continuing teacher education with the aim of encouraging teachers’ lifelong learning. Since the late 2000s, China has created an overall teacher training system that provides diverse education and training at different levels from schools to the central government. 　In the second place, by drawing on official Chinese government documents promulgated by the central government from 2010 to 2020, and the information collected in the field survey conducted around November 2018, the author analyzes how the National Training Program is currently implemented, especially the training program for teachers in rural communities. National Training Program is divided into the “elementary, junior high and high school teacher training program (model example)” and the “midwestern rural middle-career teacher training program”. Each province or city can apply for training subsidy to the central government, make a concrete training plan based on the actual situation of local education, and invite teachers in each region to participate in the National Training Program. 　Finally based on the analysis, the author discusses the implementation status of the National Training Program and what its implementation status implies in terms of the professionalization of teacher education and the attempts to reduce the educational inequality between urban and rural communities.

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