STEM Education is becoming more prominent internationally, with Sino foreign cooperation in publishing the first volume of the "Chinese Education Story" series of books in full English | China | Education
As the first book in the "China Education Story" series, "China Education Story 2023" premiered at the Shanghai Book Fair on the 16th. This all English dataset+case set is published through Sino foreign cooperation, with Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press responsible for domestic publishing and Springer Publishing Group responsible for foreign publishing. In addition to the paper version, the free electronic version of "Global Open Access" is also used to tell the story of Chinese education to scholars, journalists, and the public at home and abroad, and to spread the voice of Chinese education.
The Jiefang Daily Shangguan News reporter learned that the book consists of 12 chapters, with a length of 480 pages and over 240 charts, mainly divided into two parts. Among them, the first part introduces Chinese education by stage and displays the basic situation of Chinese education; The second part compares China's education with representative high-quality education countries in the world, highlighting the unique features of China's education, discussing the similarities and differences between Chinese and foreign education, and sharing successful educational experiences.
"The attention of both China and foreign countries towards Chinese education is gradually focusing, but due to the complexity and diversity of education systems in various countries, research on Chinese education in foreign countries still lacks systematic, reliable, and comprehensive data." As one of the chief editors of the new book, Professor Liu Nianchai, Dean of the School of Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, led a team of dozens of senior professors and young teachers in the college, combined with official Chinese data and verifiable data sources at home and abroad, to write this book, forming the first reading material that introduces the overall situation of Chinese education coverage and outstanding indicator data with leading role in English.
Taking the international comparison of STEM education as an example, "China Education Story 2023" believes that China's outstanding indicators of STEM education rank first in the sample of various countries, achieving world leading results in both secondary and higher education stages, and nurturing a large number of STEM graduates at undergraduate, master's, and doctoral levels. However, the career expectations of Chinese middle school students towards STEM and the proportion of personnel actually engaged in research and development work need to be improved. At present, STEM research and policies in China focus on the use of information technology in secondary schools such as maker education, new media, and artificial intelligence, as well as attracting top students to STEM related majors and career fields during university years.
Based on Chinese characteristics and an international perspective, the first volume of the "Chinese Education Stories" series of books is divided into different sections, and the main conclusions are drawn through vertical and horizontal benchmarking. Among them, in terms of primary education, the number of students covered by primary education in China far exceeds that of any country in the world. In terms of the proportion of fiscal expenditure to GDP, the completeness of infrastructure, gross enrollment rate, completion rate and other indicators, China has already reached the level of most developed countries. However, it still lags behind developed countries in terms of per capita education expenditure and the proportion of teachers holding graduate degrees.
In terms of junior high school, compared with developed countries, the overall teaching level of China's junior high school teacher team is relatively high, and students have outstanding performance in mathematics, science, reading, etc. However, there are still problems such as long learning time and heavy academic burden. In terms of high school education, although China's high school education has disadvantages compared to developed countries in terms of per capita educational resources due to population base and other reasons, it has reached or exceeded the international average level in terms of teacher-student ratio, proportion of teachers with undergraduate or higher degrees, teacher turnover rate, and proportion of schools with internet access.
At the same time, based on international comparison, the objective basic judgment in the field of higher education is that China's undergraduate education has achieved remarkable achievements in scale, quality, efficiency, and other aspects in the past 40 years. Although first-class university construction has made significant progress, the proportion of first-class undergraduate institutions to high-quality undergraduate institutions is still relatively low. Compared with developed countries, although the overall scale of graduate education in China continues to expand and ranks among the top in the world, there is still a significant gap in the proportion of the current workforce who have obtained graduate degrees, and it still needs to be expanded in an orderly manner in the future.
