Abstract
The possible effect of the National Plan on the development of special education has not been examined, and there is no published evidence concerning both national and international readership about the realisation of this policy document in China. Given this, we conducted a before–after design study at a 7-year interval including six variables of special education: number of schools, total enrolment, new enrolment, graduates, educational personnel, and full-time teachers. The data were retrieved from the National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBSC). The results indicated two patterns of special education development in China. First, the National Plan has quantitatively affected some special education services (schools, new enrolments, educational personnel, and full-time teachers). Second, the National Plan has possibly resulted into better control of the quality of special education—evidenced by an insignificant increase in total enrolment and graduates at the two compared intervals.
Highlights
The National Plan for Medium and Long-Term Education Reform and Development (2010–2020)(hereafter the National Plan) was issued on July, 2010 [1] and “promulgated to guide and allocate tasks for the development of the education of the decade” and “to promote the scientific development of education and propose the development goal of changing China from the world’s largest education system to one of the world’s best” [2] (p. 39)
This study examines the possible effect of the National Plan on special education development before and after the enforcement of this policy at a 7-year interval through census bureau data retrieved from the National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBSC) database
The data, which were retrieved from the NBSC database, included six variables as measuring indicators for the development of special education
Summary
The National Plan for Medium and Long-Term Education Reform and Development (2010–2020)(hereafter the National Plan) was issued on July, 2010 [1] and “promulgated to guide and allocate tasks for the development of the education of the decade” and “to promote the scientific development of education and propose the development goal of changing China from the world’s largest education system to one of the world’s best” [2] (p. 39). The National Plan for Medium and Long-Term Education Reform and Development (2010–2020). The execution of the National Plan has been challenged by some researchers. Pan [3] compared the planned reforms on this new policy with the past reforms in China—asserting that the education conflict has been the execution of the enforced policies rather than the enforcement of new ones. We wanted to identity the given importance for special education in the National Plan. We used the Automatic Recognition of Multi-Word Terms (http://www.nactem.ac.uk/software/termine/) to identity the c-value [4] for any special education related terms. Four terms were generated based on the analysis of the National Plan
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