Group-Based School-Running Promotes High-Quality and Balanced Development of Education——China's Exploration and Experience

• In Event: Education for Sustainable Development

Proposal

High-quality and balanced development is the core theme of education development in countries around the world, and it is also the ardent expectation of every student and parent for education. China is a country with a large population and a vast territory, but the phenomenon of uneven economic development is serious. There are differences in educational development backgrounds such as educational culture, educational traditions, and educational resources in different regions, resulting in uneven educational development and scarcity of high-quality educational resources. Since the development of education industrialization in the last century, China has begun to explore various paths to promote the high-quality and balanced development of education. Among them, the group-based school has achieved excellent results since its trial implementation at the beginning of this century, and has achieved remarkable results in promoting the high-quality and balanced development of education. There are three main organizational structures in China's group-run schools: one is the establishment of branch campuses by famous schools, the second is entrusted management, and the third is cooperative education.

The main substantive measures of China's group-based school-running model are: ① Nurturing and guiding the group's campuses to build their own campus culture and educational ideas with the advanced educational concepts of famous schools; ② The famous schools select school-level leaders or middle-level cadres to serve as principals or members of the leadership group in the group's campuses 3. Famous schools send outstanding teachers or middle-level cadres to the group branch as middle-level cadres; 4. Famous schools send outstanding teachers to the group branch to serve as subject leaders or subject leaders; seminar.

China's group-based schools have taken various measures to expand the coverage of high-quality educational resources in a short period of time, drive the development of new and weak schools, and meet the public's demand for high-quality and balanced education to a certain extent. However, group-based school-running is still a school-running model that is still in the exploratory stage, and there are certain practical difficulties. ①The governance capacity of education groups does not match the speed of scale expansion; ②The game between resource dilution and anti-dilution; ③The conflict between the homogeneity and individualization of running a school.

Faced with the predicament of running schools in a group, China is also actively exploring new solutions. For example, the group branch is committed to creating school characteristics and eliminating the problem of homogeneous development of education groups. Create a trust-based group culture and build a learning community. While controlling the size of the education group, we should pay more attention to the development of teachers, improve teachers' knowledge and skills, and avoid resource dilution. and many more.

Author

• Chen Chen, Wuhan University