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Investigational Study On Japan's Aid To Basic Education In Africa Within The Framework Of The Poverty Reduction Strategy

Posted on:2011-03-11Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:C XiongFull Text:PDF
GTID:1116360305499221Subject:Comparative Education
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Nowadays, nearly 1/5 world population lives under poverty line; most of them live in African countries. Poverty brings war, terror, commotion, crime, pandemic, pollution to human which seriously threaten world's peace and development. Therefore, reducing poverty has always been an important global task for human since the middle of 20th century. Human society and developed countries have tried variety of ways to help developed countries with reducing poverty. Till UN released the conception of "Humanistic Poverty" in 1990, people started to stress the poverty problem on "what" and "what can do" instead of "what they have" in order to forecast "what can they get" and "how can they get". This conception also meant that global society was no longer focus on providing certain stuff; they started to focus on raising "Humanistic Poverty" to achieve essential development which was a change for principles. This change also made huge effects on global education aid. Humanistic sustainable development became the key idea of global education aid instead of traditional aid and then basic education became more and more important. African basic education development is fall behind other places because of its long-term poverty. Almost half dropout kids are in African countries, its low-quality education is a universally recognized problem for global society. According to the necessary and urgency of reducing poverty, the popularization and developing of African basic education has its certain and important strategically relevance.1) Japan is a typical developed country, it has the world no 2 highest GDP for a long term, and its per capita GDP is higher than U.S.A.2) As the only one big aid supplying country, the performance of Japanese geographic, cultural features in basic education, policy making, and practice experience could be a sample for china to follow.3) Japan's aid for foreign countries has a long term, wide geographic range, great efforts and various diversification because it's willingness for WW2's crime compensation and consideration of its own resources, the international status of strategy for Japan itself. Japan's significant features of its guiding principles, theories in the development and evolution of the international situation, especially its huge aid for non-basic education are the ideal model of our research.4) As the poorest continent in the world, Africa didn't access to significant economic and social development; oppositely, Africa was caught into the morass of poverty and chaos after it won the war against colonialism. Africa does not have historical issues and contradictions with Japan. So it will be easier for Japan to get admitted by global society through investing in Africa which has significant importance for history of aid for foreign countries.This dissertation analyzed Japanese aid strategy for African basic education through studying articles, comparative analyzing, sample analyzing. This dissertation asked a question which is "What is poverty?" and compared different definition between economics and sociology. It makes us to clearly understand the motivation of Japanese aid for African basic education. Beyond this question, the key is how to reduce poverty. This dissertation also discussed the importance of basic education for reducing poverty from the points of view of human resource theories and human security theories. Further more, it cleared the reason why Japan set basic education as the strategy of its poverty reducing structure. The writer analyzed the poverty reducing efforts through analyzed the strategy that Japan used for its aid for Africa basic education. The final result of this study was Japan achieve its poverty reducing for Africa target through cumulative effect of its input and output and Japan continuously optimized this cumulative effect to get the expected results. Finally, base on the study, according to the current status of china aid for African education, this dissertation listed several recommendations.This dissertation contains ten chapters which could be divided into five parts. The first part is the first chapter which is the abstract; the second part contains the second chapter, the third chapter and the fourth chapter; the third part contains the fifth, the sixth, the seventh chapter; the fourth part contains the eighth, the ninth chapter and the fifth part is the conclusion which is the tenth chapter.The first part is the introduction of this dissertation, it described the reason why writer choose this topic and what is the key question writer set for this dissertation. It also introduced the background information of this topic.The second part is the research principle part,it will be focus on 3w(what---why---how)to start, that is to find out Japan's strategy recognizes of basic education in Africa,the reason for such a strategic recognizes and how to achieve this strategic objectives. The second chapter analyzed the poverty problem from the point of view of economics and sociology. Base on the above analysis, this part researched the motivation principles of Japanese aid for African basic education through analyzing the poverty reducing structural strategy. The third chapter analyzed Japanese aid for African basic education from the point of view of human resources and human security. The fourth chapter analyzed the definition of basic education, the meaning of basic education and KPI of basic education; base on it, this chapter introduced the current status of global aid for basic education.The third part is the research part, including three chapters. The fifth chapter discussed the environment of African basic education with its characteristics and history. The sixth chapter discussed the policy and strategy of Japanese aid for African basic education with the history of Japanese aid fir Africa and the change of ODA. The seventh chapter introduced three samples of Japanese aid for African basic education:Yokohama short-term research course for 6 African countries, School operation upgrading plan for Niger residents, Kenya school math improving plan.The fourth part is the comparison and recommendation part. In the eighth chapter, the writer analyzed the global aid for basic education based on the principles, and then to find out whether the Japanese aid for African basic education workable, to analyzed the result the aid achieved and the problem it has. This chapter evaluated the practice result of Japanese aid for African basic education through introducing the questionnaire to Japanese aid for global basic education from by Kobe University. The ninth chapter is the comparison part which revealed the nature of global education aid through comparing France, USA, Sweden, Netherlands these four countries aid for Africa.The fifth part is the conclusion part. Base on the study, according to the current status of china aid for African education, this dissertation listed several recommendations.
Keywords/Search Tags:International cooperation in education, Basic education, Poverty reduction effects, Japan, Africa
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