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Educational Development and Exploration

Policy Enactment Process: Dilemmas in Enacting “Quality Education” in China

Zhang Jieyu

Abstract


This study analyses the practical issues facing the policy enactment of ‘quality education’ in China. After expounding on the understanding of policy enactment and its process, this study gives a list of issues in the process of “quality education” enactment, such as unclear understanding and fast changes. By presenting these dilemmas, the difficulty of school professionals can be presented and understood clearly, then in the hope to help professionals better exercising the policy with the awareness. It is concluded that in a big country like China, the country-level education policy “quality education” is faced with more complex constraints that other countries may never encounter.

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Policy Enactment; Quality Education; Enactment Constraints

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/ede.v4i3.14297

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