Checks And Balances In The Interaction

How to make education more responsive to the development of human and society, especially for the basic education which founding the country's basic qualities, the way of reform is the important issue and major difficulty all over the world. In a sense, the breakthrough of the overall education reform depends on its methodology. In other words, the most crucial determining factor of the education reform is whether it has the appropriate education reform methodology. This dissertation advocates"incrementalism"is the basic education reform methodology of contemporary China, and only truly realizing"checks and balances in the interaction", we can truly realize the incremental reform of basic education, thereby overcoming the radicalism and conservatism tendencies of reform methodology, ultimately easing the problem of"isolation"and"imbalance"of multi-interest groups in contemporary Chinese basic education.Chapter I from"problem"points out that the main problem of basic education in contemporary China is isolation and imbalance of multi- interest groups. In other words, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners which should genuine dialogue and close cooperation each do things in their own way lacking of communications in basic education reform, accordingly the multi- interest groups have bogged down isolation and imbalance all over the reform process from brewing, initiation, implementation to evaluation. Specifically, there have been some ill tendencies in the course of the basic education reform, those are, the researchers close in the practitioners, the practitioners resist the researchers; and the researchers are dependent on the policy-makers, the policy-makers ignore the researchers; and the policy-makers injunct the practitioners, the practitioners are silent to the policy-makers.Chapter II explores the cause of the reform predicament of basic education. Getting to the bottom of it, the two tendencies of radicalism and conservatism are the main origins which work isolation and imbalance of multi-interest groups in education reform. This chapter expounds the two tendencies of reform methodology from their basic standpoints, ideological roots, realistic reasons and limitations.Chapter III attempts to use incrementalism reform methodology to solve the reform predicament, and points out"incrementalism"is people's expectations of contemporary Chinese basic education, and"limited rationality"is its ideological foundation, and indicates the realistic reasons of incrementalism reform of basic education through the responses to the radicalism and conservatism reform tendencies. Based on it, the dissertation said: in China, the rational choice is to use incrementalism reform methodology, if we want to gain the success of basic education reform. However, in the process of using incrementalism reform methodology to ease the reform predicament, the isolation and imbalance of multi-interest groups still haven't been resolved.Chapter IV put forward the core viewpoint-"checks and balances in the interaction", as an effective principle of incrementalism reform methodology in contemporary Chinese basic education. To be brief,"checks and balances in the interaction"is the methodology principle of incrementalism reform. In the process of contemporary Chinese basic education, only truly realizing"checks and balances in the interaction", we can truly realize the incrementalism reform of basic education."Checks and balances in the interaction"can be summarized as follows: in basic education reform process, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners as multi-interest groups are to be balanced through dialogue. Its main features are game, sapiential and rational. And its values are"three helpfulness", those are, helpful to cultivate the abilities to reform of each interest group, helpful to reduce the reform conflicts of multi-interest groups, helpful to constrain the reform hegemony of unilateral-interest group. This chapter mainly expounds the ontology and axiology of"checks and balances in the interaction", from its basic meaning, main features and implications of value.Chapter V emphasizes on the theoretical foundations of"checks and balances in the interaction"--- intercourse rationalism, golden mean and harmony. This chapter studies profoundly their basic meanings, practical significances and limitations.Chapter VI is the methodology part of"checks and balances in the interaction". This chapter systematically discusses the implementation ways of it, those are, the creation process of"practice-based researchers","research-based policy-makers"and"research-based practitioners". In fact, the process is the creation of multi-interest groups and the implementation ways of"checks and balances in the interaction". Essential of"checks and balances in the interaction"is that of the process of multi-interest groups'balance through dialogue, which requires all parties have awareness of conscious dialogue and communication to achieve the balance state, adhering to their own reform positions.