Behind before they Begin: The Challenge of Early Childhood Education in Rural China
Behind before they Begin: The Challenge of Early Childhood Education in Rural China
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DOI：
10.1177/183693911203700107
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发表时间：
2012-03
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
R. Luo;Linxiu Zhang;Chengfang Liu;Qiran Zhao;Yaojiang Shi;S. Rozelle;Brian Sharbono
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作者：
R. Luo;Linxiu Zhang;Chengfang Liu;Qiran Zhao;Yaojiang Shi;S. Rozelle;Brian Sharbono
本文的主要目标是分析可能影响中国农村儿童进入正规学校系统之前的教育准备的因素（学前班的可及性、出勤率和质量）。本文利用对中国三省六县82所幼儿园和492户家庭的调查数据，对中国农村幼儿教育服务的性质和4 ~ 5岁儿童的教育准备情况进行了研究。我们提出的证据表明，幼儿教育服务严重不足。我们发现，中国的农村儿童得分低得多的标准化测试的教育准备比他们的城市同行，超过一半的农村儿童在我们的样本是“没有准备好”继续到下一个层次的正规教育，可能是由于幼儿教育的质量差，在幼儿教育的参与率低。
THE MAIN GOAL OF THIS paper is to analyse factors (accessibility, attendance rates and quality of preschools) that may be affecting the educational readiness of China's rural children before they enter the formal school system. Using data from a survey of 82 preschools and 492 households in six counties in three provinces of China, this paper documents the nature of early childhood education (ECE) services and the educational readiness of children aged four to five years in rural China. We present evidence that ECE services are seriously deficient. We show that China's rural children score much lower on standardised tests of educational readiness than their urban counterparts and that more than one half of the rural children in our sample are ‘not ready’ to continue on to the next level of formal education, possibly owing to the poor quality of early childhood education and low participation rates in early childhood education.