China's National Minority Education: Culture, State, Schooling and Development

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Author: Ger Postiglione

ISBN-10: 0815322232

ISBN-13: 9780815322238

Category: Ethnic & Minority Studies

This volume focuses on policies and practices in the education of China's national minorities with the purpose of assessing the goals and impact of state sponsored education for China's non-Han people's. The essays in the four sections of this book examine cultural challenges to state schooling, the extent of educational provision in minority areas, the perspectives of Tibetan and Uyghur minorities toward state education, along with providing case studies of four national minorities. The book...

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This volume focuses on policies and practices in the education of China's national minorities with the purpose of assessing the goals and impact of state sponsored education for China's non-Han people's. The essays in the four sections of this book examine cultural challenges to state schooling, the extent of educational provision in minority areas, the perspectives of Tibetan and Uyghur minorities toward state education, along with providing case studies of four national minorities. The book makes the point that despite the authoritarian character of China's state schooling, diversity reigns.

Series Editor's Forward1Introduction: State Schooling and Ethnicity in China3ICultural Challenges to State Schooling: Religion and Language212Religion and the Education of China's Minorities233Making Muslims in China: Education, Islamicization and Representation554Writing Cultural Boundaries: National Minority Language Policy, Literacy Planning, and Bilingual Education95IIEducational Disparities: Literacy Levels and Access to Higher Education1315National Minority Education in China: A Nationwide Survey Across Counties1336Expanding Access to Higher Education for China's National Minorities: Policies of Preferential Admissions173IIICase Studies of Ethnic Minority Schooling: The Yi, Tai, Tibetan and Monguor2117Folk Theories of Success: Where Han Aren't Always the Best2138Teaching Backwardness or Equality: Chinese State Education Among the Tai in Sipsong Panna2439The Development of Modern School-Based Tibetan Language Education in the PRC28110Education among the Minhe Monguo341Chinese Glossary385Selected Reference Material389Contributors409Index413