Education Science ›› 2023, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (2): 27-33.

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Equality and Excellence:System Optimization of Education Streaming System in China

Cheng Hongyan, Pan Xiaofang   

  1. School of Education, Central China Normal University, Wuhan Hubei 430079, China
  • Online:2023-03-15 Published:2023-04-28

Abstract:

The educational streaming system is a basic system for talent selection and social differentiation. Worldwide educational streaming system has presented five types:elitism,competition,curricular,liberalism and egalitarianism in the dimension of decreasing elitist tendency and increasing egalitarian tendency. China’s educational streaming system belongs to the East Asian type of competitive education,which emphasizes elitism,authority dominance,competence ability-based and achievement-oriented,which belongs to the“academic-late streaming”model of forced streaming. At present,China’s education educational streaming system is facing three difficulties:the first is the failure to effectively improve the disadvantaged position of disadvantaged groups in educational streaming;the second is the tendency for the selection mechanism of educational institutions to lead to excessive competition in education;and the third is the lack of a “ soft streaming” mechanism to keep the educational system moderately flexible. To build an equal and excellent education diversion system, it is necessary to achieve a deep coupling of institutional justice and social efficiency in value appeals, and to coordinate the balance between national will and individual needs in practice.

Key words: educational streaming system, educational system, institutional justice, educational equity

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