At present, the de facto basic education in China refers to all forms of education before junior high school (including junior high school). In a narrow sense, it refers to nine-year compulsory education. In a broad sense, it should also include family education (abbreviated as tutor) and necessary social life knowledge education. Some people classify high school education as basic education, but this type of education has not been popularized in China at present, so in fact, high school education is not basic education. With the development of China, it is estimated that by 2020, high school education will be basically popularized.
The so-called independent value of basic education means that basic education has its own independent value in the whole education system and is not attached to other types and levels of education. Establishing such basic education values is a very important conceptual basis for promoting the transformation of basic education from "exam-oriented education" to "quality education".
At present, the phenomenon of "exam-oriented education" exists so tenaciously in schools, and key schools are becoming more and more popular. One of the important reasons is that the independent value of basic education has not been fully recognized, and the value of basic education is only attached to higher education. Whether it can provide more and better students for higher education or schools is the standard to measure its value. This is actually giving up the independent value of basic education.
Therefore, it denies the most fundamental significance of basic education. So, what is the independent value of basic education? In this regard, the Compulsory Education Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) stipulates: "Compulsory education must implement the national education policy and strive to improve the quality of education, so that children and adolescents can develop in an all-round way in terms of morality, intelligence and physique, and lay the foundation for improving the quality of the whole nation and cultivating talents with ideals, morality, culture and discipline for socialist construction."
The Outline of Education Reform and Development in China clearly points out that "basic education is the basic project to improve the quality of the people". This clearly tells us that the value of basic education is mainly manifested in two aspects:
First, the fundamental goal of basic education is to improve the quality of the whole Chinese nation, and its object and focus are all the people, not some people, let alone a few people;
Second, the function of basic education is to lay the foundation for improving the quality of the whole nation. It emphasizes the cultivation of basic quality, not the cultivation of majors or some specialized talents.
Therefore, the teaching content, curriculum system, teaching ideas and thoughts, teaching methods and evaluation of basic education must obey such a basic value goal.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-basic education