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Front. Educ.
Sec. Language, Culture and Diversity
Volume 9 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2024.1394840
This article is part of the Research Topic Educational Policies and Practices in Emerging Multicultural Contexts View all 6 articles

The Internal Structure of China's Policy Texts on Inclusive Preschool Education From a Grounded Theory Perspective

Provisionally accepted
Shi Guihong Shi Guihong 1Chunyan Wang Chunyan Wang 2*
  • 1 Yancheng Teachers University, Yancheng, Jiangsu, China
  • 2 Chengdu Normal University, Chengdu, China

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    Providing education that satisfies the people and strengthening the inclusive development of preschool education has been an unchanged policy of the Party and the state for the development of preschool education in China since 2010.This article uses Nvivo 12plus qualitative analysis software and content analysis method of lexical measurement as research tools to comprehensively analyze the internal structure of China's inclusive preschool education policy texts from 2010 to 2022 from three dimensions: policy objectives, policy measures, and policy guarantees. It is found that the policy objectives always revolve around the construction of a high-quality preschool education public service system that covers urban and rural areas, has a reasonable layout, and is public welfare inclusive; The policy measures mainly involve the layout and planning of preschool education structure, the supply of inclusive resources, the guarantee of preschool education funds, the construction of teaching staff, the improvement of childcare quality, and the improvement of regulatory system; Policy guarantees strengthen the leadership of the Party and the implementation of responsibilities by governments at all levels. In the future, policy development will pay more attention to achieving the goal of satisfying the people in preschool education, focusing on implementing policy measures for inclusive childcare integration, and strengthening the responsibility implementation and supervision accountability of governments at all levels.

    Keywords: inclusive preschool education, policy objectives, Policy measures, Policy guarantee, grounded theory

    Received: 02 Mar 2024; Accepted: 13 May 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Guihong and Wang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Chunyan Wang, Chengdu Normal University, Chengdu, China

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