Author(s)

JingYi Feng

Affiliation(s)

School of Insurance, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing 102206, China.

Corresponding Author

JingYi Feng

ABSTRACT

With the in-depth promotion of the concept of quality education, study tours in my country have developed rapidly, but in practice, the phenomenon of "education inflation" has emerged: the cost of study tours has continued to rise, while the value of education has not increased accordingly, and even problems such as form outweighing content, overpackaging and exaggerated publicity have emerged. This paper first explains the concepts of study tours and education inflation and the relationship between the two, and analyzes its performance characteristics in terms of inflated costs, blind comparisons, uneven quality, and utilitarian evaluation; then analyzes the causes such as market supply and demand imbalance, institutional profit-seeking, and government performance-driven; then through current situation analysis and effect evaluation, it reveals the multiple impacts of education inflation on the quality of study tour education, students' knowledge and practical ability, and educational equity; finally, from the three levels of policy, school and society, comprehensive countermeasures such as building access standards, strengthening supervision, optimizing curriculum design, teacher training and home-school cooperation are proposed. Research shows that only through multi-party collaboration and systematic governance can the vicious cycle of "education inflation" and market expansion in study tours be broken, and study tours can be promoted to return to the essence of education and achieve healthy, balanced and sustainable development.

KEYWORDS

Study tour; Education inflation; Cost-value imbalance; Curriculum design; Education equity; Comprehensive quality training

CITE THIS PAPER

JingYi Feng. Education inflation in study tours. World Journal of Educational Studies.2025, 3(2): 25-42. DOI: https://doi.org/10.61784/wjes3043.

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