A Study on the Allocation of Special Education Resources in China

International Journal of Humanities and Social Science

© 2019 by SSRG - IJHSS Journal

Volume 6 Issue 2

Year of Publication : 2019

Authors : Yuantao Huang, Mei Zhang

10.14445/23942703/IJHSS-V6I2P103

How to Cite?

Yuantao Huang, Mei Zhang, "A Study on the Allocation of Special Education Resources in China," SSRG International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, vol. 6,  no. 2, pp. 14-22, 2019. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23942703/IJHSS-V6I2P103

Abstract:

Education, as a core of a country, is the significant orientation of development. Recently, Chinese society pays more attention to the disabled group, which makes special education become a popular research field. The special education has been emphasised by the National medium and long-term educational reform and development program (2010-2020) and the 13th Five-Year Plan for National Education development. This research applies the multivariate statistical analysis to explore the special education resources allocation in China's thirty-one provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities (not include Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan), which aims to investigate the status of the Chinese special education and provide appropriate proposals for the future. The use of factor analysis carries out the imbalanced resources allocation is not same as the Chinese economy distribution; due to the various status of special education, this paper proposes several suggestions based on the statistical analysis.

Keywords:

China, Special education, Resource allocation, Factor analysis, Cluster analysis.

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