Education: 1950's Flashcards
What different types of schools did the CCP introduce? What were min-pan schools?
Min-pan was a ‘run by the people’ primary school, which would be financially supported and managed by the local village.
Winter schools were introduced and provided short courses for adult peasants. 42 million peasants attended winter schools in the winter of 1951-52.
What was pinyin? When was it introduced? How did it help to improve literacy in China?
It created a new standardised alphabet. It was introduced in 1955.
Instead of symbols, the letters were words in Mandarin (the main language) and allowed them to be pronounced phonetically. This greatly improved communication.
How did the literacy rate improve in the 1950s?
Between 1949-57 the number of primary school students improved from 26 million to 64 million.
What percentage of the budget was spent on education?
6.4%
How many more people attended university?
University enrolments almost quadrupled from 117,000 to 441,000.
How did subjects and teaching change at university?
Higher education was based off of the Soviet Union’s education system - a separate ministry of education was set up in November 1952 to co-ordinate teaching plans, materials and textbooks.
Between 1952-58, 600 Russians taught in Chinese collages and universities, by 1959 38,000 Chinese students had been trained in Russian schools.
Who benefited most from these changes? What changes were not made?
Requirements for education both the children of the old bourgeoisie and the new privileged class - children of the party officials.
