世界性的政府改革浪潮与公共教育重建运动——国外公立学校改革背景探讨

教育的发展不仅取决于经济和技术的投入,还与基本的制度环境以及在这种制度环境中的政府作用发挥有关。近年来许多国家都在对政府职能进行检讨和反思,试图打破对政府的盲信,建立适应后工业社会和信息时代的后科层制行政模式,这一改革已成为全球性的现象,并形成了不同取向的改革思潮和改革模式。世界范围内发生的公共教育重建运动可以看成是上述政府职能改革的直接反映。这场运动强调学校自主权和家长、学生的选择权,试图通过某种市场化、民营化的形式,来打破公共教育的政府垄断,最终改善公共教育的绩效。

The Worldwide Tide of Governmental Reform and Restructuring Public Schooling:a Discussion on the Background of the Reform of Overseas Public Schools

The development of education not only depends on the economic and technical input,but also has something to do with the basic institutional environment and the role the government plays in such an environment. In recent years,many countries are examining and rethinking the governmental functions,trying to break the blind confidence in the government and establish a post-bureaucratic administrative modes in accordance with the industrial society and information age.Such reforms have become worldwide and thus...