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School Inbeded In Village

Posted on:2007-06-30Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:H C SiFull Text:PDF
GTID:1117360185462469Subject:History of education
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This research is a case study of educational changes in a village called Ren. With the methods of oral history and field study, it introduces the advantages of anthropology fieldwork into educational history study. Based on abundance of first-hand data, such as oral records, official files, census data, national economy statistics and etc, the research narrates the course of educational changes in a small community and provides a picture of educational transformation in it.Through historical study and fieldwork, the research has following five findings.First of all, it finds that the real lives of school and education in Ren Village evolve under space and time. They are under the great tension of two powers, i.e. tradition and the real outside world. Within a time-space coordinate, the research focuses on the transformation of education and school in a socioeconomic context. It tries to link history to present by studying orally remained cducational heritage among common people and situations nowadays. History exerts a subtle influence on the present time through tradition, and various factors of present-world are gambling and interchanging with each other. The above two powers both dominate the change and transformation of the village together.Secondly, the village school is not just an extending state-force, but is actually in tensity between local folklore and outer world (such as state, politics, etc.) The rural school continues tradition in many aspects and demonstrates a local appearance. Even nowadays it is still located in a strained web with various powers, i.e. between locality and Occidentalism, history and real-world, rural way and urban style, state and region.Thirdly, in village community, schools gradually occupy almost all time-space of the children in village and have a greater influence on their life-history. They thus colonize outside life in the village, and challenge and even shrink the existing space of folk norms. The process of schooling for village ch ldren is a competition between school and folk norms to retain priority.Forth, the research probes into the function of village schools as a social-ladder in rural communities and the impact of schooling and folk norms upon village emigrants. Such issues have seldom been inves igated in educational and social research in China so far. Through historical study and case exploration, this research produces its convictive viewpoint.Fifth, village schools develop along the interaction among state, region and village. History of small places has shacows of both the past and outer-world. Especially after the 1980s, withdrawing of state forces from the village provides a comparatively open political and social space for the civilian. r such context, state, region, village and its school interact with gambling, and as a result form a(?)mage of school transformation.
Keywords/Search Tags:village, rural education, rural school, primary school in village, educational history, oral history, case study
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