The Fairness of Family Education: Challenges and Strategies

This chapter examines the fairness of family education. Family fertility is the combination of reproduction and care, birth is only the first step, education is the most important. At the beginning of the reform and opening up, education competition did not form because most families had similar economic conditions and regional education levels do not vary much. Education is mainly achieved through public education investment, and the family education burden is small. With the improvement of the level of economic development and the promotion of education urbanization, education competition is becoming increasingly fierce, and schools are no longer the sole undertaker of education subjects, and families and the market have become the key complementary forces of education competition. Family education has different connotations in different historical backgrounds, mainly embodied in the equal distribution of educational resources, equal access to educational opportunities, the fairness of educational achievements, and the influence of policies and social culture. The historical experience of family education equity in China is mainly divided into several stages: the early exploration of educational reform, the exploration of educational equity after the founding of New China, the development of educational equity since the reform and opening up, and the characteristics of family education equity in the new era. Face different challenges of family education, we should set up a problem awareness, explore the new era of China’s family education equity path.

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Authors and Affiliations

1. China Institute of Education Policy, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China Eryong Xue
2. Institute of International and Comparative Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China Jian Li

1. Eryong Xue