Building a Pattern of Mutual Benefit and Symbiosis:A New Approach to Collectivized School-Running in Basic Education
It is an important policy-related goal of collectivized school-running to build a mutually beneficial and symbiotic pattern,help member schools to boost their internal vitality,improve their autonomy in school-running,and promote their coordinated development.However,a review of the current relationship between member schools in an educational group based on the theory of symbiosis shows that some areas have not achieved satisfactory results in collectivized school-running.For example,the educational groups have not yet truly established a pattern of co-construction and sharing,win-win cooperation,or mutual benefit and symbiosis,and have problems to varying degrees,such as agglomeration without unity,unity without change,and lack of symbiosis.These problems result from the following:The educational groups have a too large or too small scale as a symbiotic unit;in the mode of symbiosis,the leadership system,the decision-making mechanism and the resource-sharing mechanism cannot cater to the needs for school-running;and in the factors related to the symbiotic environment,the construction of the quality assessment system is relatively stagnant.To stimulate high-quality member schools to guide and assist weak member schools,develop more high-quality member schools,and achieve the mutual benefit and symbiosis of member schools,educational groups need to take key measures,including innovating on their governance system and mechanism,improving the overall regional planning and top-level design for collectivized school-running,consummating their leadership system and rules of procedure,and exploring a member school-bundled evaluation mechanism where an educational group is viewed as a unit.
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