{"title":"Right or Duty: Reinterpretation of the Nature of the Right to Education in the Compulsory Education Stage","authors":"Shen Suping, Chen Zijian","doi":"10.1080/10611932.2019.1667698","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract With respect to the rights and duties of citizens to receive an education, as provided under the Constitution and the Education Law of China, academic circles have proposed three interpretations: the combined right and duty viewpoint, the right viewpoint, and the duty viewpoint. Through analysis of the course of the emergence, development, and evolution of the Constitution of New China and relevant articles of the Compulsory Education Law, this article argues that the understanding of citizens’ right to education in the compulsory education stage should uphold the combined right and duty viewpoint, regarding the right to education as the right to the starting point and the process of education, and the duty to receive an education as an outcome- and goal-oriented duty.","PeriodicalId":39911,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Education and Society","volume":"25 1","pages":"231 - 248"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Chinese Education and Society","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10611932.2019.1667698","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract With respect to the rights and duties of citizens to receive an education, as provided under the Constitution and the Education Law of China, academic circles have proposed three interpretations: the combined right and duty viewpoint, the right viewpoint, and the duty viewpoint. Through analysis of the course of the emergence, development, and evolution of the Constitution of New China and relevant articles of the Compulsory Education Law, this article argues that the understanding of citizens’ right to education in the compulsory education stage should uphold the combined right and duty viewpoint, regarding the right to education as the right to the starting point and the process of education, and the duty to receive an education as an outcome- and goal-oriented duty.
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How is China"s vast population being educated in the home, the school, and the workplace? Chinese Education and Society is essential for insight into the latest Chinese thinking on educational policy and practice, educational reform and development, pedagogical theory and methods, colleges and universities, schools and families, as well as the education for diverse social groups across gender and youth, urban and rural, mainstream and minorities. It features unabridged translations of the most important articles in the field from Chinese sources, including scholarly journals and collections of articles published in book form. It also provides refereed research on specific themes.