Practice And Thinking On The Government's Role In Providing Public Service And Its Mode Of Management During The Modernization Process Of Urban Education

Providing public service is the chief function and a key feature of a contemporary government. The Shanghai municipal government has set goals to realize the modernization of education by 2010, and the municipal government of Luwan district has established goals to become the first in Shanghai to realize such modernization. To basically realize the modernization of education in urban areas is a gradual but complicated process and a systematic project. However, such realization depends on the extent to which the government provides good educational public service, and in essence, depends on the political and economic development of the society as well as the establishment of a public-service-type government in that society.The modernization of education in urban areas is the goal of a government when it seeks to provide educational public service, and education is the most important of all the social public service provided by the government. Therefore, to realise the modernization of education in urban areas, from the perspective of providing public service, is to make sure that the various public educational services provided in urban areas is of high standard, top quality, great efficiency, wide coverage, as well as individuality and sustainability, so that all citizens can enjoy satisfactory education. On the background of the goal -"to basically realize the modernization of education"established in recent years, and supported by related theories on public goods and public service management, this paper cites Luwan District in Shanghai as an example to provide an analysis and a summary of the role of a government when it provides public service during the process of urban education modernization. It discusses what kinds of basic public service are needed during the modernization of education, as well as values brought to the government during this process. It studies the effectiveness and practicability of the existing educational public services in Luwan District, and how these can benefit from success achieved by educational public service abroad. The paper also envisions an ideal model for urban education modernization focusing on the role-setting of the government and improving its administrative level according to law. It offers the writer's thinking on the issue of providing multiple options to meet life-long educational needs and the input and output of educational public services. It also gives suggestions on how to solve potential problems.