Education: Great Leap Forward Flashcards
What qualifications did teachers need?
Political qualifications and practical abilities.
What subjects were taught? What was the curriculum like?
Manual labour was introduced to prepare students to expand China’s economic power. ‘Half work - half study’ curriculum was introduced.
The min-pan school principal was extended to secondary schools.
The ministry of higher education was banned.
What teaching methods were used?
Vocational education was used for agricultural purposes.
How many schools were there by 1960? How many students had access to education?
30,000 schools with 2.9 million students attending.
Why did school attendance decline during the GLF?
Students had to work on backyard furnaces.
How did education in urban areas differ from rural areas differ from rural areas?
Rural - vocational education for agricultural techniques.
Urban - elite school system was developed from kindergarten to university. Key point schools gained the highest funding.
