The Study Of The Procedural Fairness Of Rural School Layout And Adjustment

Rural compulsory education exists lots of unfair phenomena and some of therelated people’s benefit lost in some areas during rural school layout and adjustment.There are some kinds of interest-related subjects in rural school layout and adjustment.The principal-agent relationship was developed by information asymmetry. Differentinterest requirement come from the interest-related subjects are result in the principal-agent problem. Rural school layout and adjustment should promote rural educationfairness and the improvement of education quality as an education policy and shouldprotect the interests of the public as a public decision-making. The procedural justiceof rural school layout and adjustment can play a role in promoting two aspects above.Five key elements of the procedural justice of rural school layout and adjustmentconsist of participation of guarantee, owning the information ability, an equal say ininterest requirement, the government’s neutrality and policy feedback and supervision.The qualitative data from students, parents, teachers, schools, educationadministrative department provides the basis for the analysis about the proceduraljustice of rural school layout and adjustment. About participation of guarantee，therewere less chance in participation， the high cost in participation，low willing inparticipation, weak in democratic consciousness and so on. About owning theinformation ability, there were having no chance to use the ability, the influence ofthe direct demands of interests, conformity the rational existing side by side. Aboutan equal say in interest requirement, among students, there were the anxiety of peerinteraction, to adapt to the transition of the new school, the highlighting of learningpressure, the identity learning environment, time is occupied by taking the school bus,conflicts of interest between parents and children, the tendency of students drop outand so on. Among parents, there were the expensive fare, multiple-child family’shelpless, the influence of the distance between home and school on views on theconsolidation of school. Among teachers, there were the distance between home andschool becoming farther, taking more work, passive mobilization. Among villagerpeople, the consolidation bring them lonesome, stories of rural schoolswas handed down from age to age, the point they pay attention to is from the identitymixed villager and parent. For central primary school, there were school becomingeasy to manage, reducing spending, improving education quality, improving theshortage of teachers. For administrative department for education, there wereefficient use of resource, the supplementary of education funding, improvingeducation quality, worrying about the school bus accident. About the government’sneutrality, there were economic interests, non-implement of public interest, theimplementation and dead of the guidance of education value. About the policyfeedback and supervision, there were the feedback come from the headmaster about the shutdown of school bus, the feedback come from theadministrative department for education about young children facing merging school,no timely feedback come from the administrative department about school bus fee.The administrative department for education should pay heavy regulations in schoolconsolidations, set multiple standards about school consolidations, care for vulnerablegroups, develop school bus rules. The interest-related people should developparticipation willingness and information ability, think about short-term and long-terminterest.