A Research On Public School Layout Adjustment In British Columbia Of Canada In21st Century

Since the21st century, under the background of economic recession and shortage of education funds,British Columbia province of Canada organize local school districts to carry out a large-scale school layout adjustment in order to improve the education efficiency, maintaining and enhancing the quality of education in public schools. The reform has brought a series of positive effects on public education. For example, the education budget balance of local school districts have been achieved effectively, the student’s academic performance has also been increased. At the same time, however, the school layout adjustment also triggered a wide range of discussion、controversy and opposition among the stakeholders. The school layout adjustment of British Columbia is similar to China’s21st century adjustment in terms of time, cause, meaning and so on. The research of the whole process will offer useful comparison and enlightment to China’s school consolidation.The thesis studys the whole process of the reform from a comparative perspective, the thesis is divided into five parts:Part one mainly introduces the British Columbia school closure historical background, it includes the exploratory phase, vigorous development phase and stagnation phase.Part two focuses on the factors affecting the British Columbia school closure in the early21st century, the development process of the school layout adjustment and relative stakeholders of the school closure.Part three introduces the achievement and problem of British Columbia school layout adjustment, summarizing the academic performance of students of British Columbia in Canada and international performance assessment and the results of the satisfaction survey in public school.Part four takes the school layout adjustment of Vancouver school district as a typical case, analyzing the specific and detailed procedures of the school layout adjustment in Vancouver school district from the micro-level.Part five summarizes the characteristics of school layout adjustment in British Columbia, and proposes some suggestions to the domestic school layout adjustment in rural areas.