China's National Minority Education: Culture, Schooling, and Development (Reference Books in International Education (Garland Publishing))

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, and 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. Introduction: state schooling and ethnicity in China / Gerard A. Postiglione Religion and the education of China's minorities / Colin Mackerras Making Muslims in China: education, Islamicization and representation / Dru Gladney Writing cultural boundaries: national minority language policy, literacy planning, and bilingual education / Regie Stites National minority education in China: a nationwide survey across counties / Jacques Lamontagne Expanding access to higher education for China's national minorities: policies of preferential admissions / Barry Sautman Folk theories of success: where Han aren't always the best / Stevan Harrell and Ma Erzi (Mgebbu Lunze) Teaching backwardness or equality: Chinese state education among the Tai in Sipsong Panna / Mette Halskov Hansen The development of modern school-based Tibetan language education in the PRC / Janet L. Upton Education among the Minhe Monguo / Zhu Yongzhong and Kevin Stuart In general, the minorities of China are much more committed to religious belief than are the Han people.