On Quantity Study Of Educational Development Of General Secondary School In New China (1949-1999)

On October 1, 1949, the People's Republic of China was founded, which symbolizes the development of ordinary secondary school education of China entering a brand-new historical developing era. After the foundation of the state, the Central Party Committee started the construction for recovery in education while resuming economic construction. Meanwhile, the country made very big achievements which every index of the general high school had been developed on the quantity level. During the periods of "great leap forward of education" and "the Cultural Revolution", the prosperous scene appeared in the development of ordinary secondary school education on the quantity level, but its quality was destroyed. After reform and opening-up, the country adjusted the policy in educational field. The educational department began to reduce the quantity and stress the quality of education including paying close attention to the development of vocational and technical education, which made the secondary education of our country develop in a right direction.This thesis aims at investigating the overview of educational development of general secondary school from 1949 to 1999 in the quantized perspective. I hope that I can describe the data of every index of educational development of middle school ranging from whole scale, to regional difference, to the difference in urban and rural areas, to the subject of running a school, to sex composition and teacher's academic level, etc. Meanwhile, quality analyze is added. So that I can present the development orbit of secondary school education of 50 years .The thesis is divided into six chapters.Chapter one, I mainly investigate the changes of the number of general secondary schools, the number of students, teachers and other relevant indicators from 1949 to 1999, so that I can describe the overall scale of the analysis.Chapter two, I focus on researching the regional differences of eastern, middle and western areas manifested in educational development of middle school from 1949 to 1999 by investigating the number of general secondary schools and every ten thousand people's numbers of students at school in each province, municipality and autonomous region.Chapter three, I investigate the differences between urban and rural areas in development of general secondary school and analyze the reason why emphasized the development of general secondary school in cities and towns or villages in different historical periods.Chapter four, I mainly study the development of genera] secondary school education in 50 years after founding the state from the subject of running a school. Meanwhile, I analyze the reason why the system of running a school changes in each historical period.Chapter five, I have quantized investigating to woman's education development after the foundation of the state from aspects of the numbers of the schoolgirls and schoolmarms.The last chapter, I investigate the change of teacher's quality over the past 50 years in the latitude of teacher's academic level, which indirectly reflects the track of the development of secondary school education.