Education in Shanghai
For Every Student’s Lifelong Development
She Guo-ping
Deputy Secretary General,
Shanghai Municipal Education Commission
Salzburg, Austria
September, 2011
Education in Shanghai:
For every student’s lifelong development
Focus on 3 Major Aspects:
 Interactive Development Between Education and the City
In its process of becoming a world-class city, Shanghai emphasizes the
development of a world-class education, which allows the city to
compete on a global scale continuously.
 PISA and Shanghai’s Basic Education Development
Shanghai’ s outstanding performance in PISA 2009 reveals not only the
current situation of Shanghai’s basic education development to a certain
extent, but also the achievements of Shanghai’s education reform after
years of sustained development.
 Prospects of Shanghai Education Development
Based on the recognition of knowledge society and age of innovation,
Shanghai has formulated the guidelines of a ten-year educational
development plan, which focuses on every student’s lifelong
development.
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Education in Shanghai:
For every student’s lifelong development
A. Interactive Development between
Education and the City
The development of Shanghai’s education is closely related with the
development of Shanghai City as an international metropolis. The city’s
spirit is infused into the soul of education while educational development
enhances the vitality of the city.
Being built into a world-class city, Shanghai emphasizes the development of
a world-class education, which allows the city to compete on a global scale
continuously.
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Interactive Development Between
Education and the City
Education in Shanghai:
For every student’s lifelong development
The basic principle and purpose of propelling educational
development in Shanghai is to create a first-class education to
match with the first-class city
Interactive development between education and the city
City development promotes
education reform and development
• Economic development
• Market economy and the
Reform and Opening Up
Education development provides
intellectual support for city
development
• Citizen’s caliber and urban
civility
• A large number of technical
professionals and high-level
innovative talents
• Higher demand for education
• Abundant scientific research
achievements
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Interactive Development Between
Education and the City
Education in Shanghai:
For every student’s lifelong development
In the past 30 years, by expanding opening trade constantly, Shanghai
has enhanced its international competitiveness notably
Rapidly developing Shanghai
 Land area：6340.5 sq.km.（0.06% of the country）
 Inhabitants：23.0191 million（1% of the country）
 Revenue：1/8 of the country
 Total volume of exports and imports：1/4 of the country
 By the end of 2009, there were 260 regional headquarters of transnational companies, 191 investment
companies and 304 foreign research and development centers in Shanghai.
168,724
Shanghai, China
47712
7817
1990
2000
2010
GDP ( in Millions of Euro)
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Revenue ( in Millions of Euro)
Fixed assets investment
(in Millions of Euro) 5
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Education in Shanghai:
For every student’s lifelong development
Interactive Development Between
Education and the City
The enhancement of economic strength of the city has effectively
supported educational development
The significant increase of Shanghai education expenditure
Shanghai education Expenditure
Education expenditure per student
( In Millions of Euro)
( In Euro)
3306
2000
2000年
6318
2973
2740
2009
2010年
2118
4589
1734
2009
774
1437
372
Total
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Fiscal
Primary school
441
Junior high Senior high school
school
Higher education institutes
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A
Interactive Development Between
Education and the City
Education in Shanghai:
For every student’s lifelong development
Shanghai has accomplished a comparatively sophisticated education system involving education from pre‐school to college and continuing education
Educational stages in Shanghai
Basic Education
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Education in Shanghai:
For every student’s lifelong development
Interactive Development Between
Education and the City
Shanghai has made great progress in its universal education
which ranks ahead in China
Major indicators of education development in Shanghai（2009）
The gross enrollment ratio of pre-school
education ( %)
The gross enrollment ratio of compulsory
education ( %)
The gross enrollment ratio of compulsory
education for disabled students ( %)
The gross enrollment ratio of senior high
school education ( %)
The rate of full-time compulsory education
teachers with a bachelor degree and above
( %)
The rate of population with a sub-degree and
above at the age of 25 to 64 ( %)
4318 out of 100 thousand people are in
college.
The average education time of the newly
increased labor force amounts to 13.8
years.
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Schools
Kindergarten
Primary school
Secondary school
Higher education institutes
1252
766
755
66
Students (thousand)
400.3
701.6
594.4
515.7
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Education in Shanghai:
For every student’s lifelong development
B. PISA Tests and Shanghai’s Basic Education
Development
Shanghai achieved spectacular results in its first participation in
PISA 2009, which attracted attention both at home and abroad.
In our view, on the one hand, the results of the test reflects that
Shanghai has always valued basic education highly, and both
essential education system and education policies along with a
range of measures for educational reform support and promote
the improvement of the quality of education. On the other
hand, there are problems that need to be resolved in
Shanghai’s education as well. To create a word-class
education, Shanghai still has a long way to go.
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Education in Shanghai:
For every student’s lifelong development
PISA and Shanghai’s Basic Education
Development
In 2009, Shanghai participated in PISA for the first time, and achieved top
results in mathematics, science and reading
The performance of students from Shanghai in reading, mathematics and science in PISA
Reading
Mathematics
Science
Countries/
Districts
Mean
Std.
error
Countries/
Districts
Mean
Std.
error
Countries/
Districts
Mean
Std.
error
Shanghai, China
556
(2.4)
Shanghai, China
600
(2.8)
Shanghai, China
575
(2.3)
South Korea
539
(3.5)
Singapore
562
(1.4)
Finland
554
(2.3)
Finland
536
(2.3)
555
(2.7)
(2.8)
533
(2.1)
546
(4.0)
Hong Kong,
China
Singapore
549
Hong Kong, China
Singapore
Hong Kong,
China
South Korea
542
(1.4)
526
(1.1)
Taipei, China
543
(3.4)
Japan
539
(3.4)
Canada
524
(1.5)
Finland
541
(4.1)
South Korea
538
(3.4)
New Zealand
521
(2.4)
Liechtenstein
536
(2.2)
New Zealand
532
(2.6)
Japan
520
(3.5)
Switzerland
534
(3.3)
Canada
529
(1.6)
Australia
515
(2.3)
Japan
529
(3.3)
Estonia
528
(2.7)
The Netherlands
508
(5.1)
Canada
527
(1.6)
Australia
527
(2.5)
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Education in Shanghai:
For every student’s lifelong development
PISA and Shanghai’s Basic Education
Development
How we view our achievement in PISA: it is a valuable
measurement. However, we still need to make much more in-depth
reflections on it
2 essential features of Shanghai basic education development
The high standards and quality development of basic education Two‐tier government that centers on district and county level management
Shanghai’s basic education sticks with high standards and quality as a guide; it adheres to the mutual development of hardware and software as well as the coordination of balanced development and high quality development; it insists on the combination of theoretical research and educational practice along with the cooperation of education and social support ‐‐ to improve the quality of education and basic education modernization constantly.
According to the characteristics of metropolis, the management of Shanghai’s basic education has been implemented through a system called “Two‐tier Government, Two‐tier Management” since the 1980s, which is mainly governed on district level. The municipal government and nearly 20 districts/counties governments jointly promote basic educational development.
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System
Strategy
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Education in Shanghai:
For every student’s lifelong development
PISA and Shanghai’s Basic Education
Development
The high standards and quality development of Shanghai’s basic
education centers on reforming the education field constantly
5 major parts of improving the overall level of Shanghai’s basic education
 Curriculum reform focusing on
 The combination of
students’ individualized and allaround development
.
teaching practice and
teaching research
Basic
education
…
 Balanced development of
compulsory education based
on educational equality
Mode innovation
 The cultivation and
professional development
of principals and teachers
 Exploring education
models tailored to different
schools and student
characteristics
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Education in Shanghai:
For every student’s lifelong development
PISA and Shanghai’s Basic Education
Development
Curriculum reform aims to build up a student-oriented modern
curriculum system
1 . Curriculum reform focusing on students’ individual and all-around
development
The second phase of Shanghai
curriculum reform proposes:
designed 3 types of curriculum
• Basic curriculum
• Enriched curriculum
• Inquiry-based curriculum
Calibre
Society
develop
Students
Calibre
Disciplines
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 Focus on “5 experiences” of students:
• experience of morality and personality
development;
• experience of intelligence and cognitive
development;
• experience of sports and fitness;
• experience of art cultivation;
• experience of social practice.
 Foster “6 abilities” of students:
• ability to collect, tackle and apply
information;
• ability to research, practice and make
selections preliminarily;
• ability to think critically and creatively;
• ability to cooperate and communicate;
• environmental consciousness;
• basic ability of aesthetic appreciation.
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Education in Shanghai:
For every student’s lifelong development
PISA and Shanghai’s Basic Education
Development
The districts/counties and schools in Shanghai explore and innovate
curriculum specific to their own location, historical background and
students
Example：Annual curriculum of Shanghai Shangwen Secondary School
8
9
4
4
4
5
4
5
5
5
4
1
4
1
4
2
4
2
3
3
2
2
2
2
1
2
1
1
3
1
2
26
2
2
2
Activity-based
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The enriched curriculum
The basic curriculum
English
Ideology and politics
( Ideology and morality）
Integrated
Science
Physics
Chemistry
Subjectbased
Life
science
Integrated
Social
studies
History
Subjectbased
Geography
Integrated
Arts
Music
Subjectbased
Painting
Sports and fitness
Techniques
Information technology
Total class hours per week
6
Grade
Class hours
per week
Curricula subject
Writing
Subject-based
Grade
Class hours
per week
Curriculum subject
Language and literature
Mathematics
6
1
English listening
2
2
3
1
3
27
27
26
8
9
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
Configuration
design
Math, physics and
chemistry
Interest-based
1
2
1
1
1
Physical exercises
1
1
1
1
Class and League
activities
1
1
1
1
Total class hours per
week
The inquiry-based curriculum
1
1
Social practicum
1
1
3
1
7
2 weeks each school year
7
6
6
7
1
1
1
1
Morning( noon) assembly
20 mins per day
Physical exercises and eye
exercises
Total activity hour per week
25 mins per day
34
34
34
34
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Education in Shanghai:
For every student’s lifelong development
PISA and Shanghai’s Basic Education
Development
Teaching research activities play an important role in promoting
teacher professional development.
2. Systematic and extensive teaching research activities
Teaching research system function
Teaching research system network
•
•
•
Municipal teaching-study system
( office)
District-level teaching-study system
(office)
School-level teaching-study groups
•
•
•
Research
Guidance
Service.
Forms of teaching research activities
Lesson-based activities
•
•
•
Preparation
Observation
Lesson-review
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Professional training
Research project
•
A combination of theory
and practice.
•
Launch a genuine and
valuable research project
•
•
Lectures
Demonstration activities
Thematic research
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Education in Shanghai:
For every student’s lifelong development
Integrating various teacher education resources in the city and
strengthening demand-oriented teacher training and further
education.
3. Training and further education for enhancing the entire quality of
teachers
All teachers are expected to engage in 360 hours of professional development within 5
years, the content of which includes teachers’ professional ethics and literacy, knowledge
and skills, practical experience; training at 3 levels – municipal, districts and schools – are
linked with each other.
The union of teacher education resources
Institution: constitute the union of teacher education
institutes based on the cooperation of normal universities
and related colleges, districts/counties’ teacher further
education academies, education research institutes and
other training agencies
Curriculum: establish a committee of experts to formulate
curriculum standards of teacher education; develop
excellent courses; and evaluate
Teachers: set up the pool of experts including professors,
notable teachers and principals
Platform: integrate information resources in relevance;
formulate norms and technical standards; and set up a
communication mechanism for members
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2 major training programs
 Star Principal and Teacher Candidates Education
Program
To cultivate a group of expert educators with a world vision,
tbe Shanghai municipal education commission launched the
“Star Principal and Teacher Candidates Education Program”
for the Shanghai common education system in 2005.
Through training base, advanced training courses, research
projects, summit forums, teaching demonstrations, library
publishing, etc., it provides the environment of professional
development and a platform of display and communication
for these candidates.
 Different levels of training focusing on rural teachers
Including：basic skills training, rural teachers’ professional
development, and the improvement of weak school teachers’
quality in remote suburbs.
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Education in Shanghai:
For every student’s lifelong development
Shanghai has maintained strict supervision over professional
certifications and the structure of teachers' educational levels
Statistics: the sustained elevation of teachers’ threshold qualifications（%）
The reform of curriculum and the enhancement of teaching quality are supported by
enormous advancement in the entire quality of teachers. Over the past 20 years, teachers’
threshold qualifications have been significantly elevated.
Bachelor degree of
above
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1994
Sub-degree
Vocational upper
secondary ed.
2010
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Development
Education in Shanghai:
For every student’s lifelong development
Constant exploration of education models and teaching methods
propels Shanghai’s basic education
4. The innovation of student-oriented teaching mode
Over the
years, Shanghai’s schools
and teachers in the stage of
basic education have been
adept in the reform of
education and teaching mode
and methods with courage;
they concentrate on students’
development and strive to
explore innovation specific to
the characteristics of their
own situations and students.
Their rich experience
promote the overall
improvement of the quality of
Shanghai basic education
and the development of every
student’ s individuality.
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Happy
education
Success
education
With the concept of " teaching for students' happy
learning", teachers convert students from "passive
learning" to "happy learning, active exploring“.
The essence of these modes is to increase students'
thinking and activities along with their autonomous
learning. This includes reducing teachers' lectures to
leave students with more time and room for learning on
their own.
“Post-teahouse”
teaching
methodology
Teachers adopt the step of reading discussion, exercise,
lecture and practice"; value the practical experience
and inquiry-based learning.
Progressive
teaching
mode
It aims to realize “teaching for all students” and improve
classroom teaching and the quality of school effectively
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For every student’s lifelong development
PISA and Shanghai’s Basic Education
Development
Because of the disparity of economic development in different
districts/counties, the quality of schools and teaching varies greatly
5. Promoting balanced development of compulsory education
Shanghai financial income per capita at
district/county level in 2008 (in RMB)
静安区
卢湾区
黄浦区
浦东新区
长宁区
徐汇区
闵行区
青浦区
嘉定区
虹口区
松江区
闸北区
普陀区
奉贤区
杨浦区
金山区
崇明县
宝山区
20,709 registered population
16,021 9,705 8,310 8,171 7,616 7,069 5,400 5,256 5,049 4,821 4,436 3,601 3,486 3,381 3,333 3,173 3,168 0
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The population structure of
Jiuting town, Songjiang district in
2008
5000
10000
transient population others
84.31
The schooling of rural migrant children
in Shanghai
Proportion（%）
Primary school
Junior high school
15000
20000
25000
Total
2007
2008
2009
20.31
26.53
38.38
9.91
13.06
16.91
15.68
20.89
30.04
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Education in Shanghai:
For every student’s lifelong development
PISA and Shanghai’s Basic Education
Development
Promoting balanced development of compulsory education is to
change the educational situation of weak schools in less developed
areas
5. Promoting balanced development of compulsory education
The renovation of school buildings
• From 1985 to 1997, 986 primary schools and secondary schools
throughout the city were renovated and 260 thousand square meters of
dilapidated buildings in rural area were upgraded. The “Weak school
update program" was implemented during 1995-1998, and a total of
230 primary and secondary schools were renovated.
Standardized construction of primary and secondary schools
Pairing off schools
• "pairing off program. Unify the deployment of
teachers from both kinds of schools and unify the
implementation of curriculum and examinations to
guarantee new schools start at a high level. There
have been more than 10 quality schools engaged in
this program.
Commissioned administration
• By purchasing service, the government
appointed quality schools to administrate
other schools in teams with agreements.
There were 20 rural weak school that
received commissioned administration in the
first round in 2007, and the number
increased to 43 in the second round in2009.
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•
•
Elevate the
bottom for
balanced
development
From 1999 to 2002, Shanghai invested more than 4
billion RMB to renovate 1569 primary and secondary
schools, including both of their hardware and software.
In2002, Shanghai invested 8.6 billion RMB to launch a
“junior high school program” specific to 193 weak
schools.
Strengthening suburban education
• During the “ 10th five” period, Shanghai
invested 7.4 billion RMB to complete the
construction of 566 educational infrastructural
programs in suburban districts; and invested 13
billion RMB for 639 programs during the “11th
five” period.
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Education in Shanghai:
For every student’s lifelong development
C. Prospects of Shanghai Education Development
PISA enables us to discover the problems and challenges in Shanghai education
as well as new educational concepts and methods by learning from the trend of
the world’s educational development and other countries’ experience along with
the design and implementation of international evaluation.
Since October 2008, Shanghai has commenced to formulate the Plan for
Educational Reform and Development (2010-2020). This plan, which is humanoriented, draws a picture of the future development of Shanghai education from
the view of national and global strategies. It proposes strategic objectives,
development guidelines, and a series of reform initiatives.
The core concept proposed by the Plan is, “ for every student’s lifelong
development”, which emphasizes that students’ learning is not only for present
achievement, but for acquiring capability to adapt to social changes, lifelong
learning, and sustained development.
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For every student’s lifelong development
Prospects of Shanghai Education
Development
Broaden horizons and study greatly on important background issues
related to the future development of Shanghai educational reform
Multi-perspective study of the strategic context
1. Knowledge society
2. Innovative age
3. Informationization
4. Internationalization
5. The development of Shanghai
6. International competition
Educational reform
and development
follow the trend of world development and plan the reform and development of
Shanghai’s education in a broader perspective
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For every student’s lifelong development
Prospects of Shanghai Education
Development
The Plan integrates the spirit of the national Outline with Shanghai’s
present reality
Main features of the Plan
1
Propose the core
concept of “ for every
student’s lifelong
development.
８ Plan 10 key development
programs for 2010-2020
initiated by current
government ; put key
tasks into effect.
７ Comply with the
development of worldly
information technology to
realize educational
modernization with
informationization.
2
Concept
育人
聚焦
人的发展
注重
公平均衡
体系
Program
Human development
卓越
The Plan
Informati‐
率先
完善
onization
保障措施
突出
改革
Equity
改革创新
实施
Reform
信息化
开放
项目推动
６ Expand the opening up of education to
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公平
System
Construct a new lifelong
learning system according with
the core concept to embody the
advancement of Shanghai’s
educational development.
promote the development of educational
internationalization matching with the
international metropolis.
3
Plan key tasks based on
human development
which is the essential
function of all kinds of
education.
to educational
４ Adhere
equity, which will be
embodied in concrete
system and policy
measures.
５ Reform to promote educational
development powerfully and the
innovation of system mechanism;
take the lead in national strategy.
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For every student’s lifelong development
Prospects of Shanghai Education
Development
The Plan implements the spirit of the national Outline and seeks to
be concise, specific, and featured
The statement of the guideline
• Promote equity
• Pursue excellence
• Propel innovation
• Support
development
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• Set educational equity as the basic principle.
• Set excellent development as the value to pursue.
工作方针
• Set reform
and innovation as a powerful impetus.
的提炼完善
• Set supporting development as an important
direction.
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Education in Shanghai:
For every student’s lifelong development
Strive to unleash everyone’s potential and improve the development
of education and human resource to reach the world class level
Overall objectives
Features of the overall objectives:
4
Form a
new education
layout of
balanced,
coordinated
and
sustainable
development
1
Form a new
education system of
lifelong-learning
2
4
symbols
3
Form a new
education pattern of
diversity and
expansion
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Form a
new
education
model of
unleashing
students’
potential
First, correspond to the strategic objectives of national
education reform and development.
Second, embody the prospects of education reform
and development with Shanghai’s characteristics.
 Shanghai is equipped with the foundation and conditions for
achieving education modernization by 2020.
 Shanghai will take the lead in building a learning society for every
citizen.
 It is practical for Shanghai to set “strive to unleash everyone’s
potential” as one of the overall objectives.
 Further improving the future development of Shanghai’s education
and human resources to reach the world class level is essential for
accelerating the modernization of an international metropolis and
developing national power.
Third, highlight four featured strategic objectives of
educational development.
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Prospects of Shanghai Education
Development
The indicators of Shanghai’s education development seek to reflect
Shanghai’s characteristics
Main indicators of the development of education and human resource
2009
2012
2015
2020
No.
Indicators
1
The gross enrollment ratio of pre-school education （%）
95.5
97.0
98.0
99.0
2
The gross enrollment ratio of compulsory education (%)
99.5
99.7
99.9
99.9
3
The gross enrollment ratio of compulsory education for
disabled students (%)
95.5
96.5
97.5
99.0
4
The gross enrollment ratio of senior high school
education（%）
90.0
95.0
97.0
99.0
5
The number of college students in 10 thousand people
4318
5100
5140
5200
Internationalization indicator
6
The rate of oversea students in common higher
education institutes（%）
6.2
9.0
11.0
15.0
Quality indicator
7
The rate of full-time compulsory education teachers
with bachelor degree or above（%）
69.9
80.0
85.0
95.0
Informationization indicator
8
The rate of access to net in primary school（%）
82.4
94.0
96.0
100.0
Human resource
development indicators
9
average schooling years per capita of newly increased
labor force (years)
13.8
14.5
14.7
15
10
The rate of population with sub-degree and above at the
age of 25 to 64 （%）
24.0
29.0
35.0
47.0
Development indicators
Equity indicators
Development indicators
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Prospects of Shanghai Education
Development
Pre-school education: implement pleasurable enlightenment
education to help children grow up healthily and happily
“3 insistings” on the centre stage of pre-school education
Insist on
scientificity
Insist on the combination of
child-care and teaching
 detect early, diagnosis
early and intervene early
 form the network of
community in early
education
 develop various and creative preschool educational activities based
on children’s lives through games
as the basic approach.
 strengthen the research of preschool education science
Insist on public benefit
 strengthen government’s responsibility
 encourage social forces to engage in
developing pre-school education actively
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 set up the subvention system for preschoolaged children in poor families
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Prospects of Shanghai Education
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Compulsory education: enable all children to receive high quality
education equally
Pursuit of excellence based on equity
Focus on the learning needs
of all students
Improve the quality of each school
 bridge the gap among different schools
 concentrate on the equity of process based on
the equity of opportunity
 reform school evaluation systems and
encourage schools at each level to make
evident progression
 improve the overall quality of education for all
students with a focus on less advance students
 create conditions for small-size class teaching.
Deepen curriculum and
instruction reform
Equity
Excellence
Equality
 strengthen the connotation construction of
public junior secondary school
Alleviate excessive academic
burdens
 attach importance to basic knowledge and skills for
living and life
 reduce total class hours and excessive
course requirements
 develop students’ hobbies, creative and independent
thinking, and the capability of cooperation and
communication
 establish an accountability system
monitoring, reporting and publicizing
academic burden of primary and secondary
school students.
 cultivate students, emphasize their physical
exercises, healthy living habits.
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Education in Shanghai:
For every student’s lifelong development
Senior secondary education: prepare knowledge and capability for
students’ growth and success
The improvement of learning capability and the development of
individualization with diversity
Diversity
High quality
 develop school-based curriculum and
 focus on basic knowledge and ability
innovate education model
 highlight humanities, social science and
 promote the mutual penetration between
arts education
general education and vocational education
 strengthen inquiry-based learning and
experimental practice
 develop comprehensive senior secondary
 improve students’ improve students'
school integrated with vocational education
designing and hands-on abilities
Emphasis on independent Characteristics-oriented
learning, individualized development and innovative ability
 form an unique educational concept and
human environment; form a group of
characteristic senior secondary schools with
unique educational methods, discipline
advantages and creative activities and the like
 high quality schools play an exemplary and
leading role in characteristic schooling
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Selectivity
 propel elective course prevailing in
senior secondary schools and extend the
credit system gradually
 create new approaches to learning and
developing for advanced students
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Education in Shanghai:
For every student’s lifelong development
Prospects of Shanghai Education
Development
The fundamental advantage of Shanghai’s basic public education
service is the ideal institutional environment
Value orientation: strive for everyone’s access to a fair and excellent basic
public education service
Everyone has an equal access to a
standard basic public education service
Everyone has an equal opportunity to choose and
receive education that meets his/her own needs
• Guarantee basic rights
• Equal opportunities for everyone
• Achieve basic standards
• Realize fair and ordered choice‐
making
• Realize the goal of equity and excellence
• Safeguard social fairness and justice
• Possibility of receiving education that meets people’s own needs
Prospects
• No disadvantaged people lose opportunities for economic reasons.
• Provide basic conditions for the maintaining of learning
• Form an educational concept supported by the whole society
There are more concerns and help for disadvantaged
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• Care towards every student
• Individualized attention to each student to unleash his/her potential to the maximum
• Initiate inclusive education in which hobbies and talents are developed
Everyone is treated equally when receiving education
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Education in Shanghai:
For every student’s lifelong development
Conclusion
Education reform is a significant issue of common concern all over the world
and every country has valuable experience in their own reform and
development of education.
It is exciting that Shanghai’s education achieved outstanding results in PISA,
while at the same time, it also stimulates us to think and reflect upon our
education more deeply.
The important tasks of the reform and development of Shanghai’s education
system now focus on the trend of world education development and draw
lessons from the beneficial experience of other countries' educational
development. Through the discussion with Austrian government authorities
and educational peers, we expect to further strengthen educational
exchange and cooperation and promote the sound development of
education on both sides.
Thank you!
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