Exploration of National Basic Education—Reflection on Localization of Framework for Improving Student Outcomes Policy

Abstract

School improvement is an important way to enhance the resilience of schools and to ensure education quality. FISO (Framework for Improving Student Outcomes) is a unified policy framework for school improvement and effectiveness research in basic education in Victoria in Australia. Improvement cycle and improvement model are the main elements, and has achieved a certain degree of success in its implementation. With the gradual advancement of education reform, difficulties and barriers in ethnic minority basic education in China are emerging.

Based on the effective practical experience of FISO project, and its combination with the current situation and dilemmas of ethnic minority basic education in both countries, this paper attempts to construct a new framework to provide innovations and insights for the promotion of ethnic minority basic education in China, under guidance of policy improvement model and the theory of “Four Stages of Policy Borrowing in Education”. Chinese schools can optimise ethnic minority basic education schools in four areas: teaching and curriculum, leadership and management, community participation, and learning atmosphere.