Conceptualizing Concept-Added Policy Chain: Ideas and Implications

Abstract

This chapter proposes and explores the initial political analytical tool of the concept-added policy chain to investigate the education policy landscape with Chinese characteristics, contextually. The proposed idea of concept-added policy chain is identified as three major analytical stages including the retrospective review stage, synthetical review stage, and prospective analysis stage. Specifically, the retrospective review stage involves the historical review of the comprehensive education policy, specifically; The synthetical review stage concentrates on the reflective review and summary the rewards from the historical development and process; The prospective analysis stage focuses on the insightful forecasting the trends that merged in reality. All these three analytical stages contribute to constructing the proposal educational political tool of the concept-added policy chain to explore the education policy landscape at Macro-level, sustainably.