当前,我国正处于社会转型时期,经济体制的全面改革必然触及幼儿园办园体制的改革,原有的幼儿教育供给体系有相当一部分已解体,而新的替代性供给体系尚未建立或正处于探索之中。例如,曾作为城镇办园主力军的集体办园(主要是各级各类企事业单位和社区〈街道〉办园)纷纷从母体中剥离出来,而迅猛发展的个体办园又凸现了现行行政管理制度上的种种滞后;近些年来,农村幼教事业持续滑坡,举步维艰,而社会对教育公平性的疾声呼吁和对教育的社会公共服务性质的深刻认识,引发许多有识之士对现有的政府提供的极为有限的幼儿教育财政投入去向作了全面而深入的思考。客观地讲,我国现有的幼儿教育资源是稀缺资源。众所周知,资源的稀缺性是经济学得以建立的前提,因此,对于当前我国幼儿教育的资源供给、效用最大化之类涉及社会转型期国家系列基本制度调整和建设的问题就有了一个从经济学角度分析的可能乃至于必要。为此,本刊特邀对此有深入而独到研究的北京师范大学教育学院国际与比较教育研究所曾晓东博士就社会转型期幼儿教育事业发展和制度建设等问题作系统的经济学分析,并分期刊登她的有关研究论文。热切期待大家的关注。 At present, our country is in the period of social transformation. The comprehensive reform of the economic system will inevitably touch upon the reform of the park-run system in kindergartens. A considerable part of the original supply system for early childhood education has already been dissolved and the new alternative supply system has not yet been established or is being explored in. For example, the collective-owned parks (mainly various types of enterprises, institutions and communities at all levels) that used to be the main force in town-run parks have been spun off from their mothers, and the rapidly growing individual-run park highlights the current administration In recent years, the preschool education in rural areas has been in decline and struggled hard. However, the social appeal for education equity and the profound understanding of the nature of public service for education have led many people of insight toward the existing Government provided a very limited funding for early childhood education to make a comprehensive and in-depth thinking. Objectively speaking, China’s existing resources for early childhood education are scarce resources. As we all know, the scarcity of resources is a prerequisite for the establishment of economics, therefore, for the current supply of preschool education in China, to maximize the effectiveness of such issues related to the basic social system of social transition countries to adjust and build a problem from the economics Analysis of the angle may be necessary. To this end, this article invited to this in-depth and unique study of Beijing Normal University Institute of Education International and Comparative Education Dr. Zeng Xiaodong social transition in early childhood education and institutional development and other issues for systematic economic analysis and staging Published her related research paper. Eagerly looking forward to everyone’s attention.