Cultural Changes In The Cultural Reproduction And Education Choice

In this study, according to the case study of the Dai monk-students in Meng Han high school which is a special minority group in southwest of China, using the theory of cultural reproduction as study paradigm, on the one hand, I attempt to carry out this particular cultural groups a more detailed analysis, on the other hand, I try to reveal interaction of state and locality, tradition and modern in a community.I study the object on the broad background. First of all, I investigate and analyze the economic and cultural situation of the community. Meng Han district in Yunnan Province is a multi-cultural society. The communication and integration between different cultures, especially the effect of Han Chinese mainstream culture, have a significant impact on the traditional culture of Dai people. The economy of the Dai community is rapidly developing, traditional rice production gradually quit, rubber industry and tourism industry are prosperous. Dai culture is changing, and people's attitude and behavior is changing.Secondly, this article focuses on the different social structure and cultural system in Meng Han, and how the operation of the social structure produced the Dai monk-students. It exists two sets of community-based cultural system, that is, the official culture system and the folk culture system. The important institution of the folk culture system is Buddhist temples. I analyzed why the temple education become the tradition of Dai society and described the change of the temple education from the 50's last century. The main organization of the official culture system is schools. This paper gave a systematic description of the development of the school education in Meng Han. The phenomenon of Dai monk-students is the result of a compromise between these two cultural systems. Selection of individuals is subjected to the cultural structure in a sense.Third, this paper discusses the status quo, the existed issues and the causes of problem of the Dai monk-students according to the field work. The traditional culture of the Dai people in Meng Han strict changes enormously. The religion belief of Dai people weakens, the numbers of monks lessen, the quality of monks is in constant decline, and monks have lower status. I think more changes are results of foreign pressure. In school, I found there are fuzzy ideology, low academic achievement, and anti-school culture which exist in Dai monk-students group. The school education reproduces the main stream culture by taking the measures of nationalization, ex-localization and unification. But the Dai monk-students resisted that. After they graduate, few Dai monk-students can enter the mainstream society by higher schooling. And there are various constraints in the temple system. Most of the Dai monk-students eventually return to traditional community. These outcomes are caused by the social structure, community, schools and themselves.Rapid changes in society, the collision between traditional culture and modern culture, indigenous culture and foreign culture, national culture and local culture happens to such special group in the field of cultural reproduction. Both the temple education and school education have the necessity of co-existence. However, it seems to be a kind of expedient, because there is a problem which can not be avoided.Both the quality and the quantity of the monks in Buddhist temple are in the sharp decline. In school, although there are many students, the educational effect is not good. Dai monk-students put a negative attitude on the temple education and the school education, especially for school education there are different degrees of resistance. In the final chapter, this paper focuses on the problem of school education, and put forward some suggestions.In order to promote harmonious development of nationality, community and country, the author want to build a common culture. the premise is that government should pay attention to culture concern ,with a focus on the concept of cultural diversity, and efforts should be made to enhance the local bottom-up cultural consciousness capacity. On this basis, I try to build a operational mode between communities and schools.Finally, the author reflects on theory of cultural reproduction and research methods based on the actual analysis.