중국의 쌍감(双减) 정책과 교육 문화에 대한 소고 -공공 온라인 교육 플랫폼을 중심으로-

Abstract

This study examines the changes in Chinese compulsory education after the implementation of Double Reduction Policy, an educational reform measure in China, focusing on the use of public online education platform. The goal of Double Reduction policy is as follows. First, to improve the quality of school education in China and standardize the private education institutions. Second, to prevent excessive education expenditures by Chinese parents and ease their economic burden. The causes of China’s implementation of Double Reduction policy are as follows: Excessive competition for entrance exams, Polarization issue of education, Management of education resources and human data at the national level. Under the Double Reduction Policy, a noticeable change in school education is the implementation of after-school service. After-school service includes homework management, club activities and online education. Especially through the public online education platform, it is expected that students will be able to access more diverse educational resources. Teachers will be able to develop their teaching -learning methods and share excellent teachers’ classes between schools. However, the limitations of using online education are also exist. Online education cannot completely replace the offline education for students. Teachers can experience fatigue from competition for the excellent teachers and organizing both online and offline classes. Parents are concerning about the exposure of harmful online contents and poor eyesight because of overusing the smart devices.