Innovative Education Partnership Model for School Improvement: Studying a Rural-Urban School Continuum Model in China

• In Event: Roundtable Session 26
  In Roundtable Session: International Perspectives on School Improvement

Abstract

This project uses cross-cultural perspective to study an innovative rural and urban school continuum partnership model in China which was designed to promote rural school improvement and to address the unique rural-urban educational inequity issues in China. Sense-making framework and mixed method approaches were applied to the study. Policy context, dynamic mechanism and features of the model were examined and impacts of the model on student learning, teachers’ professional development and school improvement were evaluated from the stakeholders’ view. Finally, useful implications were drawn both scholarly and practically for international communities to develop similar models for school improvement and educational equity.

Authors

• Yumei Han, University of Massachusetts - Boston

• Wenfan Yan, University of Massachusetts - Boston

• Ling Li, Southwest University

• Yuping Han, Southwest University