The Implementation of Inclusive Education in Beijing

The education implementation process in China remains uncharted by researchers. The Implementation of Inclusive Education in Beijing: Exorcizing the Haunting Specter of Meritocracy puts forth a general theory on China's education programs, encompassing policy processes, actions, and interactions and grounded on the views of street-level bureaucrats in China. Kai Yu investigates these processes and presents teachers' reflections on the change process, as well as implementation stories from four Beijing schools. He reports on their attitudes, their beliefs, and their pedagogical practices for implementing the innovative education program. Yu argues that the imperatives of meritocratic ideology have undermined the detracking policy and its practice. The strength of a program of change rests not so much on the power of the ideas, purposes, and values as on the reinterpretation of the implementers based on their personal understandings of institution and practice.

Kai Yu is associate professor of education and public policy at Beijing Normal University.

Chapter One: The Haunting Specter
Chapter Two: Key Issues Chapter Three: The Policy
Chapter Four: Implementation Stories: Four Cases
Chapter Five: The Implementers
Chapter Six: Cross-case Analysis
Chapter Seven: Inclusive Education in a Market Society: Remaking Meritocracy with Chinese Characteristics