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Research On Optimize Distribution Of Basic Education Facilities In Poyang County, Jiangxi Province

Posted on:2014-06-29Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:X HongFull Text:PDF
GTID:1227330482983169Subject:Human Geography
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Education equality is a sign of social democracy and social progress, while achieving education equality or not in basic education stage is an important measure of the level of education equality. In recent years, the country is promoting vigorously the equalization of compulsory education and planning education resources in depth constantly. School consolidation was implemented so as to optimize the allocation of educational resources in 2001. From then on, rural elementary and secondary schools have dropped by half, which caused higher transportation costs for rural students and some social problems such as "school bus accident". School consolidation was attracted attention from Prime Minister Wen Jiabao. In 2012 government work report, Premier Wen Jiabao said that education with high quality and convenient, nearby schools for children are important for the layout of rural elementary and secondary schools.Some solutions had been proposed through investigating the layout of primary and secondary schools. However, most of studies adopted the qualitative analysis method which is very difficult to describe the irrationality in spatial distribution of the middle and primary schools and the differences of many indexes about teaching conditions among the schools. The present research was based on the GIS spatial analysis technology, which was accomplished through investigating reasonable space layout of basic education facilities, and structuring technical route and general framework of basic spatial layout optimization during the new period of rapid industrialization and urbanization in our country. So that, the study may further promote the balance of education, optimize the policy about school consolidation, and enhance the scientific level of decision-making. That is the real purpose and value of the present research.Poyang is located in the northeast of Jiangxi Province, covering 4,125 square kilometers, having 1,520,000 people, which is the county with the biggest population in Jiangxi Province. Poyang county is located in the Poyang Lake Ecological Economic Zone, at the east coast of Poyang Lake. There is a mountain at the northeast, a lake at the southwest. It inclines from northeast to southwest and form low mountains, hills, plains, lakes, and landform types. There is typical significance to study the spatial layout of the educational facilities.The task of basic education, including the number of schools, the layout infrastructure, the proportion of enrolment, construction of teachers in Poyang County developed very well. The proportion of enrolment is more than 99% in primary schools, more than 97% in junior high schools, which provide a good basis for equal service of basic education in Poyang county. During the development of basic education in Poyang county, there were differences of education development among townships because of the differences among regional development of townships and the differences of natural conditions and economic conditions.There are significant regional differences of teachers-students ratio in Poyang County. Teachers-students ratios in central towns are generally higher than that in remote villages and towns, while the ratios in the villages and towns with better economic and social development are generally higher than that with backward economic and social development. The numbers of school are very different among the villages and towns in Poyang County. Quite a lot of schools are located in the two piece band region:1) the south-central Poyang County and 2) the north-central Poyang County. The numbers of schools in the center, south, and northeast of Poyang County are relatively smaller. The numbers of classes per hundred students in the villages and towns of Poyang County are quite different. The change of class numbers reflects the changes in population density and spatial differences of education infrastructure. The student densities in primary schools are relatively similar. However, the student densities of middle schools in central town are much higher than that in other villages and towns because of the existence of secondary boarding school. In order to get the better education resources, many students in the middle schools of remote areas usually move to that of central town. Therefore, the student densities of middle schools in central town are improved in Poyang County.In the present study, we considered carefully the influence factors of GDP, population, land and the level of economic development in Poyang County, utilized 15M remote sensing DEM data, and adopted multi-factorial and multivariate method for analysis, so as to obtain the population and economic data much accurately in Poyang County. The factors in topography, such as slope, aspect, elevation were considered, socio-economic factors including the traffic, and the towns of accessibility after the waters were cut off were also considered in the study. Based on the knowledge and experience of experts, and the factors of population distribution, and the spatial results of population data, we provided more accurate and feasible data for the spatial analysis of the population of middle and primary schools in Poyang County.In the present study, we constructed the process for the evaluation of accessibility and the technique of node hinterland division through using the existing technique of evaluation of accessibility, measured the time cost in primary schools and junior high schools in Poyang County, measured the proportion of time cost of accessibility and the numbers of students in each village and town, analyzed the roles of walking, cycling, transferring modes for going to schools respectively, calculated the accessibility and time cost in primary and high school students to go to school of the three modes respectively. According to the results in accessibility evaluation of the spatial adjacency effect, we found that transferring spent the least time, cycling spent medium, walking spent the most because of the traffic changes and different road types. In the spatial distribution, the durations for the students in primary school to go to schools were similar in the whole county, the accessibility in the south of the country was better than that in the north of the country. However, the durations for the students in junior high school to go to schools were quite different; the accessibility of urban areas and areas along G56, S304 were better. According to the results in regional equity of the effects of going to schools, we found that the accessibility of the areas around Poyang Town and national highway, provincial highway were better, while that of Lianhu Xiang, Shuanggang Zhen, Baishazhou Xiang were worse because of the large areas of water caused traffic inconvenience in the areas. According to the results in regional equity of the numbers of students, we found that they chose the densely inhabited districts for the school sites and built more elementary and middle schools with 10 min-population-ratio than that with more-than-10 min-population-ratio in villages and towns of Poyang County.According to three principles of balance, fairness and overall planning, this study put forward three tasks towards optimize distribution of basic education facilities:1) optimizing rural middle and primary school layout,2) reconstructing the weak schools speedily,3) allocating teacher resources rationally, through combining with the spirit of related documents from the State Council and Jiangxi province and the three stage goals:uniform phase, equilibrium phase and homogeneous phase. Space layout of primary and junior high schools in Poyang County was adjusted and optimized based on the walking time to go to schools:30 min for primary schools,60 min for junior high schools. We also put forward some suggestions to school capacity optimization taking Poyang Zhen as an example, based on the prediction of future population distribution and evolution trend in Poyang County.
Keywords/Search Tags:basic education, school, optimize distribution, spatial balance, Poyang County
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