Early Childhood Education in the People's Republic of China

Notes

• F. Schurenam , Ideology and Organisation in Communist China , rev. ed. ( Berkeley : University of California Press , 1968 ); also see R. F. Price, Education in Communist China (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970).
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• Nigel Grant , Soviet Education ( London : Penguin , 1964 ).
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• A description of the educational system has been given in a recent Australian publication, the figures differing slightly from mine. See W. F. Connell , F. H. Christie , P. W. Jones , R. Lawson , eds., China at School ( Sydney : Ian Novak , 1974 ). The figures given should be compared with 1949 estimates-Primary: 24 million; High School: 800,000; and 1950 entrants into Higher Education: 35,000. See B. M. Richman, Industrial Society in Communist China (New York: Random House, 1969), Chapter 3. Comparisons with pre-liberation preschool provision is impossible due to lack of both 1949 statistics and current figures.
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• Society for Research in Child Development, Newsletter , Fall 1974 .
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• Jean Piaget , Play, Dreams and Imitation in Childhood ( London : Heineman , 1951 ); The Moral Judgment of Children (London: Rout-ledge & Kegan Paul, 1960); The Language and Thought of the Child (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1959).
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• J. Wilson et al., An Introduction to Moral Education ( London : Penguin , 1967 ).
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• R. F. Price , What Children Read ( Melbourne : La Trobe University Comparative Education Centre , 1973 ).
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• Group life of this kind is not, of course, peculiar to China but may be seen in most peasant and village based societies. Many Africans comment that they find solitary modes of living, sleeping, eating, and working “ unnatural. ”
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• Newsletter , p. 6 .
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• Ibid. , pp. 5 – 6
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• Ibid. , p. 6 .
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• Ibid. , p. 7 .
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• J. Bowlby , Maternal Care and Mental Health ( Geneva : W.H.O. , 1952 ). I find it very odd that in reporting a visit of nineteen doctors to China in 1972 there is no mention of this problem. See D. Bialestock, “Child Care: China 1972,” The Medical Journal of Australia, November 24, 1973.
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• Ruth Sidel , Women and Child Care in China ( New York : Shelton Press , 1972 ).
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• Newsletter , p. 7 .
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• Ibid. , p. 5 .
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