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The "special post program" is of great significance to revitalize rural education and promote the balanced development of urban and rural education. In the past 15 years since the "special post program" began to be implemented, remarkable achievements have been made, but there are still some unstable teachers in the process of implementation. As a former special-post teacher, Xiaojing has experienced the mental process of passively approaching the "post" of the special-post teacher, experiencing it truly, leaving with hesitation, caring for it after leaving the post and having no regrets at the special post. The reasons for her resignation lie in the hardship of the rural living environment, the poor school running conditions of rural schools, the low salary and welfare, the lack of the sense of professional belonging and the pursuit of professional development. As a female special-post teacher, she also faces the real-life problems, such as love and marriage, bearing children and even children' s future education. This case, to a certain extent, reflects the phenomenon that some teachers take the " post " as a career springboard in the implementation of the "special post program". In order to revitalize rural education, it is necessary to improve the school running conditions of rural schools, raise the salary of rural teachers, pay attention to the basic living needs of female special-post teachers, stimulate teachers' achievement motivation, and promote teachers' lifelong learning and development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Education is the fundamental way to block the intergenerational transmission of poverty. As the main force of rural education, rural teachers play a key role in promoting the development of rural education and realizing the revitalization of rural areas. The policy of the construction of the rural teaching staff in China has shown a state of combining point with area, treating both cause and symptoms, guiding action according to circumstances and taking advantage of the situation since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. A series of policies continue to work, and the long-standing problems of rural teachers, such as “being unwilling to go down", “being unwilling to stay" and “poor teaching", have been well solved. At the same time, there are still some prominent problems in the construction of the rural teaching staff, such as the unreasonable number structure, the low salary and welfare, the obstruction of personal and professional development and the low social status, which become the key restriction to the construction of the rural teaching staff. To this end, the rational allocation of teaching staff, the implementation of stepped subsidy and welfare guarantee policies, the establishment of more reasonable job evaluation standards, strengthening the localization of county training and the cooperation of various departments should be the policy orientation to improve the construction of rural teaching staff in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To solve the problem of the construction of the rural teacher team, we should not only pay attention to their social role as 'teachers', but also return to the life ontology of teachers as 'humans'. From the perspective of life quality evaluation, the current poor life quality of rural teachers in China is mainly reflected in the following aspects: rural teachers fall into the dilemma of the self-professional identity under the cover of the group identity; teachers' professional development under the standard of 'policy and expert' has alienated the 'mankind subjectivity' of rural teachers; the rural teachers and the rural society are estranged from each other; and the rural teachers' discourse power is weak. It is suggested that the government and the society should strengthen the humanistic care for rural teachers and improve their quality of life in the following aspects: improving the education legislation and establishing a long-term mechanism to ensure the life quality of rural teachers; reducing the burden of rural teachers and stimulating their self-conscious endogenous motivation; stimulating their social feelings and establishing their dominant position in rural education; protecting their discourse power and making them establish their own identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the new period, although Rural Teacher Support Plan( 2015-2020) and a series of policies have been issued by the State Council to promote the development of rural teachers, yet the rural teachers still face adverse conditions. Based on their advantages and mission, commonweal organizations for education have done a lot in the rural teachers supplement, training, communication and evaluation and their exploration can help rural teachers get out of their predicaments. In the future, we are required to focus on the subjective demands of rural teachers, set up the service mechanism of low gravitational center and localization, perfect the mechanism of argument, supervision and evaluation, and construct multi-subjected administrative environment to promote the development of rural teachers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Taking the administration of the "Special-Post Teachers Plan"in X County, Shanxi Province as an example, the "collaboration and game playing"between local governments is explored from the angle of collaborative innovation. The study finds that the collaborative-administration pattern of the "Special-Post Teachers Plan"hasn’t been carried out in accordance with "collaboration and compliance". First, there exists the overstaffing "collaboration"between the municipal government and the county governments, that is, the compromise between the authoritative system and the effective administration. The organizational control of the central government leads to the problem of "understaffing"in the local governments, as a result, the local governments are forced to make the "collaboration"plan to cheat and fool the superior governments. Secondly, in the multivariate collaborations among the local governments, the self-authority and interests of the human resources and social security bureau, the commission office of public sectors reform and the bureau of Finance have been defied and infringed, the local governments can not comply with the policies and collaborate effectively, and malignant fragmental behaviors have occurred due to the "over-crowded departments to superise the same matter" [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]