A Study On China's Educational Research System In Recent Century

Officially,China's educational research system was started in the later part of the Qing Dynasty and has become a prominent part in China's education in recent century.Many theoretical problems and practical confusions are derived for vacancy on this field,therefore,examination on the system has great theoretical value and practical significance.A nation's educational research system or a district's educational research system is attributable to the highly-increased demand for education research from government and society.Later Qing Dynasty,with the thought of saving the nation from doom and ensuring its survival and thirst for talents,the demand for education research was stimulated,thus,the field of education research was formally explored.1905,the establishment of education ministry and its subsidiary bodies marked the rudiment of China's educational research system,of which its framework included two parts:educational research institute system and educational research administration system,whose value orientation set educational research system as one part of educational administration system.1912-1948 was a period China's educational research system underwent two phases:fall into a pattern(1912-1936)and paralysed or half standstill(1937-1948).Further divided,this period contained three phases:unstable rudiment(1912-1916);spreading and built framework(1917-1936);paralysation or half standstill (1937-1948).The whole first half of 20^thcentury China's educational research model and system took on three features:the alternative appearance of academic domination and administrative domination;system's attendance for regulations of academic comments and preservation for authority of academy;comparatively explicit ethic orientation of ensureing academic research freedom.From 1949 to 1976,China's system of education and research was brought into the reconstruction phase with ensuring the supply of education and research as its driving force.Despite of the inconsistency between the subjects and objects of the system of education and research from time to time,the once disordered situation of the field of the educational research,the institutionalized construction of teaching and research organizations of and research organizations of the educational institutions and the completion of the two one-phase projects had laid a foundation for the development of the system of education and research after the reform and opening-up policy.Major issues in the field of education and research in this period is the intensification and upgrade of executive-led study.From 1977 till now,Chinese system of education and research was gradually brought to standardization and perfection.With the implement of the education and science planning system as its driving force,the establishment of national,provincial and municipal educational,scientific planning group had basically been completed,the construction of the system of major educational and scientific research institutions launched,the market mechanisms introduced,the topics scientifically systematized and the education and scientific research management system of education innovated and improved.Of course,no matter how fine the operating instruction of education and science planning issues,it is only a technical problem.The innovation and improvement of a specific area of research is always affected by the environment of the whole system of academic research.System of education and research has plural properties as scientific,educational,administrative,and cultural and so forth, all of which if are not taken into consideration,the system will step into dilemma,including the implicitness of the system's breadth,the elasticity of the regulation's yardstick and imbalance of the system's supplying structure.As a specific social structure, educational research should be based on scientific spirit and humanism as its ethic norms.Actually,the functional location of China's contemporary system of education and research is deficient in ethic value.This deficiency falls into two aspects:deficiency in scientific spirit and humanism,and absence of subjectivity,closely,out of which"educational flaws"and"teaching flaws"more often than not take place.For example,the alienation of teacher's professional ethic value system leads"education deficiency".From actual condition, ethic codes of contemporary system of education and administration are confronted with three big challenges,including problems concerning systematization of education and research finance, location of government-run institutes of education and research, as well as systematization of research on high and primary school teacher.However,I believe there is a probability in the reform and innovation of China's contemporary system of education and research.Though reform and innovation may trace back to old models, it can be conformed that there are still alternative methods and paths for rational change and reform.Thinking further,I hold that contemporary China's system of education and research should benefit the nurturing of a new system with scientific and ethic spirit.It also should stick to its ethic orientation,discern its ethic relation,and appropriate ethic measure.Meanwhile,it should still make accordance to the framework of the development of education and science,and meet the need of social progress.Based on issues involving marginalization of analysis on educational research system,problems aroused by shortage of educational research fund,the yet-to-be sound transformation system of educational research achievement,as well as the theoretical problems and development strategies of this area,this dissertation employs the methodology of systematical analysis to come to the point.Its duration is about one century from 1905 to 2005,and its conducting space covers the whole China.There are five chapters in this dissertation.Chapter One, introduction,gives a panoramic view of topic foundation,research frame,and comments on existing research.To begin with analysis on reasons that it was given birth in the end of Qing Dynasty and its basic features on rudimentary phase,Chapter Two,the originating and shaping of China's system of education and research, studies its early form's developing process and main activities, ending in dissecting models of China's educational research and features of its system.On reestablishment and improvement of China's system of education and research,Chapter three consists of two sections.The first section,presenting guarantee of supply and demand--reestablishment of China's educational research system, emphases the drastic change of its environment and important projects of this phase,as well as explains research on administrative guidance and strengthening process of conference system.Concerning the improvement of China's system of education and research,the second section steps near standardization, dissecting the motivating system,infrastructure building, innovating system and other issues of this period.Titled by properties and dilemma of China's educational research system,Chapter Four evaluates properties,which are plural,that lead in dilemma.Chapter Five,ethical analysis on China's system of education and research,deals with ethical requirements and regulations of the system,ethical judgement of its functional location,and ethical system of China's contemporary administrative system of science and research of education.Chapter Six--reform and innovation of China's system of education and research in contemporary times--starts with the probability of these undertakes,hence work out the way and method of reform and innovation.This dissertation is distinct by innovation in two aspects:the first is theoretical innovation,with which the origin and development of China's system of education and research,features of its framework,and its properties are systematically observed; the second is the broadening research area of this field,which conducts a logical research on evolution of China's system of education and research and analyses it ethics,thus fill the vacancy on this field and extend the studying insight on curriculum teaching theory and educational research system.