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Gatekeeping the arts : national policy, student perception and the art and design entrance examination in China

With the development of higher education in China, the educational policy and strategy has been changed from ‘jingyingshi jiaoyu’ [elite education] to ‘dazhonghua jiaoyu’ [mass education] over the last decade. Since the end of twentieth century, there has been a significant phenomenon of the rapidly increased applicants for art and design undergraduate studies, which has been called ‘ArtStudy Fervour’ [yi kao re]. Envisaging the increasing number of applicants, the art examination, generally known as a pre-sessional test of the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE) [gaokao], plays the role of a ‘filter’ to select the ‘appropriate’ students to start their art and design undergraduate studies.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:680149
Date January 2015
CreatorsJian, Leng
PublisherBirmingham City University
Source SetsEthos UK
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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