
Educational Policy Borrowing in China
For over a decade, Mainland China has been embarking on an ambitious nation-wide education reform (''New Curriculum Reform'') for its basic education. The reform reflects China’s propensity to borrow selected educational policies from elsewhere, particularly North America and Europe. Chinese scholars have used a local proverb "the West wind has overpowered the East wind" to describe this phenomeno...
For over a decade, Mainland China has been embarking on an ambitious nation-wide education reform (''New Curriculum Reform'') for its basic education. The reform reflects China’s propensity to borrow selected educational policies from elsewhere, particularly North America and Europe. Chinese scholars have used a local proverb "the West wind has overpowered the East wind" to describe this phenomeno...