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The Ultimate Expectation of Distance Support Education: Improving the Quality of Rural Education

Received: 6 April 2021     Accepted: 7 May 2021     Published: 1 June 2021
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At present, there are still some problems in many remote rural primary schools, such as the shortage of high-quality teacher resources, single curriculum structure and content, and lagging educational information. Under the background of "Internet Plus Education", the development of information technology has greatly promoted the vigorous rise of informal education, and education has gradually entered the information age. At the same time, the gradual popularization of network technology also provided a brand-new opportunity for the development of rural education, and distance support education came into being and developed rapidly. In this study, the Distance Support Education Project of A University was taken as a case, and the data are collected through in-depth interviews with principals and teachers from remote rural primary schools and volunteers from distance support education projects. Based on the analysis of the existing curriculum structure and content of rural primary schools and the interview data, this study attempts to summarize the three types of curriculum that currently exist in distance support education: Assisted courses, Enhanced courses, and Extended courses, and explore a relatively ideal teaching curriculum model to achieve the ultimate expectation of distance support education. Namely, the fundamental purpose of distance support education is not to provide direct assistance to rural schools or rural students, but to find the direction for the independent development of rural schools, to realize the "symbiotic" development of rural schools, rural students, and volunteers from college, thus hoping to truly improve the quality of rural education.

Published in Education Journal (Volume 10, Issue 3)
DOI 10.11648/j.edu.20211003.11
Page(s) 74-77
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Keywords

Rural Education, Rural Primary School, Distance Support Education, Curriculum Form, Symbiotic Development

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  • School of Education Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China

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