 China's
community education refers to education carried out by
the community workers by use of community resources including
libraries, cultural palaces, memorial halls, theaters,
national defense education bases, scientific research
institutes, schools, training centers and schools for
adults. It embodies the rights of community residents
to ling-long education. Various communities  do
their best to improve the cultural quality of their residents,
providing them with the right to life-long study.
China's
community education began in the 1990s. In accordance
with the Action Plan for the Rejuvenation of the 21st Education, the Ministry of Education energetically conducts
community education and, for this purpose, has set up
many experimental areas throughout the country. According
to statistics for 2001, China has set up 110
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 community
education experimentation centers, with the number of
community education centers (or schools) adding up to
796, playing a positive role to the development of community
culture.
The current
community education style of China has an initial form.
Some community organizes senior activities, juvenile activities
and reading club. The community education with the street
office as the center and is called "school without
fence"; some community establishes formal community
institutes, and recruit students. The community institutes
are synthetic community education organizations, which
can satisfy the higher study needs of residents. It includes
higher professional technical education, adult higher
and secondary education, employment training, continuous
education and social living education, and divides into
degree education and non-degree education. At present,
the community institute mainly focuses on vocational education,
such as Beijing Dong Hua Men Community Institute, Shanghai
Changning Community Institute and Shanghai Jinshan Institute. |
