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摘要：In my research, I think the most important factor, which would affect the validity and reliability of the evidence, is that the respondents would distort the truth. During the interviews the truth sometimes is possible to be distorted or simply misrepresented.

titutes in providing training for the primary teachers that will uphold the basic knowledge and skills hence their effectiveness and vocational status?

5. What is the role of users in relation to their trust and confidence in primary teachers’ vocational knowledge/skill and their ability to work as members of a professionalized occupation?
1.5 Significance of the study
This study is conducted to find out how the main four actors affect professionalization of primary-school teachers in China, where only a few earlier researches could be found to analyse this professional process. Therefore, exploring this professionalization on the local level in China would contribute to addressing the problem in local primary schools’ educational activities and improving the professional level of this occupation and also be helpful to other scholars who would conduct similar studies in this area.
1.6 Scope of the study
It is well known that China is the country with the largest population, and doing a nationwide investigation and research is so huge and complex that I would not choose it for my research. So I have to narrow down my study and just historically focus the professionalization of primary-school teachers on the local level. Jiangyin, as a small city in Jiangsu Province, is selected for the study to illustrate the occupational development of primary teaching on the local level.
According to the actor-based model , the study focus on the four main actors : state, training institution, practicing professionals and users. And these actors in the study are very closely related to the activities of primary schools in Jiangyin.
In addition, China is the biggest socialist state and accordingly most of the primary schools are public and managed by the state. Therefore, the primary schools and teachers being studied in the study are state-run.

In the analysis of how the four actors effect the process of professionalization of primary teaching occupation, I focus on the interactions of these four actors.
1.7 Limitation of the study
In the study, I select four primary schools in Jiangyin, and the four actors related to these primary schools’ educational activities basically function in the implement process of the education policies, not like others such as formulation of the policies. Therefore, the analysis and findings are limited within the implement process.
The relative lack of documents about school history and development is unavoidable because of the nonstandard and inefficient administration system of school early in 1980s. And the development of primary teaching occupation that is studied is from 1980 to 2008, that is the limitation of time.
Additionally, interview is important for this small-sized study. Although I design four types of questionnaire and also plan to cross-check the information, there are inevitable weakness caused by the misunderstanding of the people interviewed.
1.8 Organization of the Study
The thesis is separated into six chapters.
Background, research problem statement, significance, scope, limitation and organization, aims and research questions related the study have been provided in the Chapter one: Introduction;
The following chapter, Chapter two: conceptual framework, reviews the existing theories related to the development of primary teaching occupation and define the
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