On Education Equality In Learning Society

Education equality is an important aspect of education democratization. It is the direction for educational reforms in many courtries. Furthermore, it has been an educational dream persued by socialist China for many years. In China, many scholars have studied the subject and put forward a lot of different opinions. Their studies are concerned with both the theories and practices of education equality, but there is a common shortcoming, that is, they pose the solutions of education uneqality within the schooling field. They are also confined to adopt educational equity or efficiency. So they can' t offer practical and effective solutions to deal with the conditions of educational unequality in China. The practice of education in China comes into trouble, as well as the theories.The author of the thesis breaks through the limitation of past studies, and reviews the subject of education equality in a view of pan-education. Guided by the idea of life-long education, the author integrates education equality with life-long education and learning society, and demonstrates the probability of the education equality under the background of learning society. The author hopes that the paper will give us some enlightments and help us walk out of the difficult conditions of educational practice and theory in China.As far as the individual is concerned, the superficial meaning of education equality is that everyone has equal access to school; the profound meaning is that everyone can equally achieve success in school studying. Education equality has immense influence and significance to world education development: The concept mainly orientates to change the state of education of the social stratum in adverse condition; Education equality transfers from having access to school equally to achieving success in school studying equally, which reverses the responsibility between educational institutions and students; The realization of this transformation requires society reforms, as well as education reforms.On these grounds, the author draws a conclusion that learning society willbe conducive to the realization of education equality.In essence, learning society is a desirable society in which both the individuals and the society can achieve harmonious development through learner' s continuous studying. Concretely, learning society is a rich society, which can provide replete materials for everyone to accept life-long education; learning society is a "human" society, concerning with the development of the individual, which secures the realization of educational equality; Learning society is a new type of society guided by the idea of life-long education, which conducts the practice of education equality; learning society is a society in which the system of life-long education will be established, which secures all of the social members' educational opportunity eqally.Facing the unequal educational phenomena in China, the author points out the solution is to build learning society .And the author gives her suggestions from four aspects: the shift of the view of values, to better the behavors of the goverments and the education administrative branches, the reforms of education itself and the reforms of other aspects of the society.