Kingdon의 정책흐름 모형을 활용한 중국 ‘쌍감(双减)’ 정책의 정책의제설정 및 정책결정과정 분석

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the policy formation process of the ‘Double Reduction’ Policy (DRP) based on Kingdon’s multiple streams model. As a result of the study, the problems stream refers to the problem of inequity in education, heavy homework burden and overheated extracurricular education destroying the educational order, leading to social problems and becoming a national issue. In order to solve these problems, the government and educational experts discussed, revised, and reunited countermeasures and previous policies and created policy alternatives. The politics stream is the core variable, which solves the academic burden problem in the education reform process through factors such as national emotions and changes in national educational development concepts. The educational development concept of “strengthening moral education and cultivating people” and maintaining educational equity have strongly impacted on the derivation, development, and transformation of policies to reduce student burden. A significant opportunity to create a “policy window” by combining the above three streams was realized through the combination of national ‘Two Sessions’ in 2021 and the opening of the 19th meeting of the comprehensively deepening reform Committee on May 21, 2021. The policy intention to reform school education and regulating off after-school educational training was raised as a policy agenda, and the DRP was eventually formed.