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Small class teaching forms a part of the national curriculum and instruction reform system and is a bottom-up educational reform. It can help enrich the achievements of instruction reform and accumulate the experience of how to promote equity of education. For more than 16 years, small class education has been developing in the cities of the Yangtze River Delta Region, such as Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Nanjing then spreading into the other coastal cities and economically developed areas and eventually into the less developed areas. Education policies, the population birth rate, the rapid development of urbanization, and other factors lead to pressure on existing educational resources. Paying attention to the “natural” small class in rural areas and giving support to the “active” small class in developed cities are two of the most important measures for the sustainable development of small class education. Home-based theoretical research on these developments is an important priority.
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Dong, B., Lv, L. (2017). The Development of Research on Small Class Teaching in China. In: Maclean, R. (eds) Life in Schools and Classrooms. Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, vol 38. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3654-5_5
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