State Schooling and Ethnic Identity - The Politics of a Tibetan Neidi Secondary School in China

Informationen zum Autor By Zhiyong Zhu Klappentext State Schooling and Ethnic Identity examines the influence of state schooling on Tibetan students' ethnic identity. Zhiyong Zhu has developed a case study of Changzhou Tibetan Middle School after a preferential educational policy was put in place by the Chinese government in the early 1980s. By examining and analyzing student diaries, Zhu has developed a theoretical model for the construction of ethnic identity. Zusammenfassung Presents the schooling context for Tibetan students who migrated from Tibet Autonomous Region to Neidi temporarily for special educational support to Tibet by the State government. This work shows that the ethnic identity constructed by Tibetan students has! to a large extent! meet the state government's political and economic interests. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Schooling and Ethnic Identity Chapter 3 Tibetan Education and Tibetan Neidi Secondary Schools Chapter 4 The Schooling Context of Ethnic Identity Construction Chapter 5 Tibetan Student Narratives: School Life and Ethnic Identity Chapter 6 Asserted or Assigned Tibetan Identity: Discussion and Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Zhiyong Zhu
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2007
• EAN: 9780739115398
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-1539-8
• No. of pages: 357
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Emerging Perspectives on Educa; Emerging Perspectives on Education in China
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries