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Changing Paradigm in China Education and Its Characteristics

Kim Dug-Sam 1

1대진대학교

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ABSTRACT

In this paper, China’s educational system has gone through three big changes in a long time of history. What changed was not just an education. Society and education went through shifts responding to each other. Educational change from confucius’s idea induced change of education paradigm and this change influenced not only education, but also external direction of education like politics, economy, and society. I assumed three historical paradigmatic shifts in educational system in China which had big influences on the foundation of Chinese education, such as the introduction of Confucian Thoughts, the introduction of Civil Examination System in Sui Dynasty, and lastly the introduction of western educational system in the late Qing Dynasty. The biggest and recent shift among the changes was educational paradigm shift caused by transfer of Western education. It was also one of the many changes China had been forced to confront unvoluntarily. It was done for many other complicated factors such as the greed of western imperialistic countries, spreading of Christianity and missionary education, domestic resistance against long feudal reigning of Qing Dynasty, and lastly the intellect’s eagerness for new knowledge and new ways of thinking. In this paper, I explained the changes and characteristics of the educational paradigm based on past research. The China’s educational paradigm has several features. In the text, examined five characteristics of the educational paradigm. Educational Paradigm shifts occurred along with the changes in society. The educational paradigm shifts as society’s demands and the role of traditional education differ. Changes and characteristics in the educational paradigm also apply to modern education.

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