China’s education response to COVID-19: A perspective of policy analysis

Abstract

This study explores how China’s education responses to COVID-19 from a perspective of policy analysis. Specifically, it involves building an educational policy system for COVID-19 to examine educational governance framework, school management and teaching, policies for teachers during the epidemic. The education policy during the epidemic has achieved positive results. Those results aim to ensure the physical and mental health of teachers and students, ensure the supply of epidemic prevention materials and educational resources, ensure the quality of students' learning, and enhance the application ability of teachers' teaching technology. The process of policy changes and effects of policy implementation have been examined to analyze how China’s education responses to COVID-19. The characteristics and experience of China's education policy in response to the epidemic concentrate on forming a governance system under the centralized and unified leadership of the Communist Party of China, building a pattern in which families and schools cooperate closely to promote the smooth development of education and teaching, transforming from an emergency substitute during the crisis into an important motivation to promote the transformation of education paradigm, and paying great attention to remote and poor areas and disadvantaged student groups.

Keywords:

• Education in COVID-19
• China’s education policy
• policy analysis
• China’s education

Acknowledgement

Eryong Xue serves as the first author in this study; Jian Li serves as the corresponding author and co-first author in this study; Tingzhou, Li serves as co-corresponding author in this study.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Additional information

Funding

Funded by the International Joint Research Project of Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University.

Notes on contributors

Eryong Xue

Eryong Xue, Professor, China Institute of Education Policy, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.

Jian Li

Jian Li, Assistant professor, China Institute of Education Policy, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.

Tingzhou Li

Tingzhou Li, Associate researcher, National Institute of Educational Policy Research, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.

Weiwei Shang

Weiwei Shang, Lecture, School of Marxism, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.