Investigating Regional Disparities of Preschool Education Development with Cluster Analysis in Mainland China

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• 作者：Xiumin Hong ; Li Luo ; Fangfang Cui
• 关键词：preschool education ; regional disparities ; cluster analysis
• 刊名：International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：May 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：7
• 期：1
• 页码：67-80
• 全文大小：427KB
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• 作者单位：Xiumin Hong (1)
  Li Luo (2)
  Fangfang Cui (3)
  
  1. Department of Early Childhood Education at Beijing Normal University, Beijing Normal University, No. 19, Xin Jie Kou Wai Street, Beijing, PRC, 100875
  2. University of Florida, China
  3. Center for Deaf Children, China Rehabilitation Research, China
  
• 刊物类别：Childhood Education; Educational Policy and Politics;
• 刊物主题：Childhood Education; Educational Policy and Politics;
• 出版者：Springer Singapore
• ISSN：2288-6729

文摘

The unbalanced development of preschool education in different regions severely hinders the process of universalizing preschool education in Mainland China. Using the method of cluster analysis, this paper examined the extent to which the development of preschool education varied in different regions, on the basis of the gross preschool enrollment rate, student-to-teacher ratio, percentage of preschool teachers with a college diploma or above, and per-child preschool education spending index in the year of 2011. This paper suggested 31 provinces in Mainland China be divided into three developmental tiers according to their developmental status of preschool education, and explored each tier鈥檚 characteristics in their development of preschool education. One significant finding was that the regional disparities in the development of preschool education correlated with the regional economic disparities in Mainland China. Key words preschool education regional disparities cluster analysis