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Liu Haimin

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Xue Lin

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March, 2025

Pursuing the Light of Educational Rationality (Volume I)

Author: Liu Haimin

Translator: Xue Lin

ISBN: 978-1-967368-02-0

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This book is published in its Original Edition with the title:

《追寻教育理性的光芒》上册
By Liu Haimin(柳海民)

Copyright © Changchun Northeast Normal University Press Company Limited, 2023

English Edition © Hill Publishing Group Inc.

Arranged through Beijing YGYM Culture Communication Co., Ltd

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Author’s Introduction

The author Liu Haimin is from Yongji, Jilin Province, and holds a Ph.D. in Education. He is a nationally renowned teaching master, a cross-century outstanding talent recognized by the Ministry of Education, and a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Education, Northeast Normal University. He has served as the Dean of the College of Education Science at Northeast Normal University, Assistant to the President and Director of Academic Affairs, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Vice-President, and Director of the Preschool Principal Training Center of the School of Education. His primary research areas include fundamental educational theories, teacher education, educational reform, and educational policy.

He has led the development of China’s “Professional Standards for Preschool Principals” and the “School Operation Quality Evaluation Standards” in the “Guidelines for the Quality Evaluation of Compulsory Education.” He has also participated in the development of the “Professional Standards for Middle School Teachers” and the “National Standards for Teaching Quality in Education.” As the leader of the national key discipline in educational principles and a national-level teaching team, he has hosted national excellent courses and national-level open video courses. He serves as the chief expert for the “Marxism Project” key textbook “Principles of Education” by the Ministry of Education, the chief expert of the National Basic Education Quality Monitoring Collaborative Innovation Center under the national “2011 Plan,” and the leader of the major national social science fund project “Research on the Paths and Countermeasures for High-Quality Development of Education in New Era in China.” He has published more than 40 monographs and textbooks and over 200 academic papers, receiving more than 50 awards, including national teaching achievement awards, excellent research achievements in higher education institutions from the Ministry of Education, national educational science research excellence awards, and national ordinary higher education excellent textbook awards.

The translator Xue Lin is an assistant professor and master supervisor at the School of Foreign Studies, University of Science and Technology Beijing. She holds a Ph.D. in linguistics. She has published 2 monographs and 2 textbooks and nearly 10 academic papers.

CONTENTS

    Part I Inquiring into the Way and Analyzing Principles: Fundamental Theory of Education

    Fundamental Theory of Quality-oriented Education
    Cross-century Cultural Transformation and the Remodel of Education in the New Era
    A Brief Discussion on the Priority of Education Development
    Individual Cognitive Development and Education Process: Reflections on the Philosophical Foundations of the Educational Pro
    cess
    A Brief Discussion on the Connotations of Individual Comprehensive Development and the Basic Characteristics
    Education as the Superstructure of Society
    Significant Achievements: Innovation and Development of Fundamental Theories of Education
    The Third Path of Basic Theoretical Research on Education: Constructing Medium-range Theories
    On the Originality of Education Theory
    Verifying the Prescribed Solutions of Modern Educational Equations: An Exploration of the Application of Complexity Theory in
    Education
    Originality of Education Theory: Attribution of Deficiencies and the Solutions
    Part II Understanding the Future by Observing the Past: Exploration of Basic Education Development

    High Quality: An Epochal Shift in the Pathway to the Development of China’s Basic Education
    Thirty Years of Compulsory Education in China: Achievements, Value, and Prospects
    Reasonable Development: New Thoughts of Enhancing the Quality of Basic Education in China
    Thirty Years of Basic Education Reform: Theoretical Innovation and Practical Breakthroughs
    Turning Point of Basic Education Development in Rural Areas: From Expansion to Enhancement
    Balanced Development of Compulsory Education in the Ontological Domain
    Respect-based Education: The Fundamental Concepts of Basic Education in the Twenty-first Century
    Balance and Constraints: Choice and Reference for Educational Equity