Minority Education Development Research

The most important task in China's education is to development basic education in the whole nation by the end of 20 century.Development basic education is the key point of raising the qualification of the whole people in China.To raise minority nationalities' qualification is the important part of raising the qualification of the whole Chinese people.Only by raising the minority nationalities' qualification,thus we can raise the qualification of the whole Chinese people indeed and we can realize the prosperity and stability of our country.Therefore,that we take on the study of reaching basic education in minority areas has very important realistic value.In order to adapt to this tendency,Ⅰchoose "Education Development in Ethnic Minority Areas-as Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province as an example" as my studying object.And from cultural angle and the way of case study,by aiming at the deeper cause that lead to the obstacles in reaching basic education,thus we can found the right way that can be operated in educational practice.This essay is divided into three parts except the introduction.The introduction simply introduces the cause of choosing this subject,the theoretical base and the train of thought in writing.The first part mainly introduces the general survey of Yao'an country,the history of development basic education of Yao'an country,the achievements, experiences and lessons which achieves in the process of reaching compulsory education in Yao'an county.The author thinks that the main experiences and lessons are to deepen the whole society's understanding on basic education,increase the support of government,insist on setting up schools in various forms,push on the teaching form of dual language:Yi language and Han language and flexibly control the students' time in schools and so on.The second part mainly analyses today's problems of development basic education in Yao'an country.The author thinks the main problems are as follows: People don't realize the importance of development basic education;The conditions of schools are very poor;It is difficult for the female Yi students to go to schools,The quality and quantity of teachers in Yao'an country are both poor;The whole educational quality in Yao'an country tends to below etc.The author not only exposes these problems,but also from the cultural angle,analyses the deeper causes that cause these problems. The third part uses Public Management,Economics of Education,the experience of educational anthropology for reference,from the angle of enhancing endogenous change and exogenous change,tries to find a right countermeasure to solve the difficulties in the process of development basic education in the western nationality areas.The main measures are as follows:we should increase educational outlay of the national government and provincial government,use various methods to raise money,enhance the supports geared to the needs of nationality areas,carry out the policy of migration,change the concepts of minority people,deepen their understanding on development basic education,make the education in the western areas strongly fit the situation of western areas,insist on setting up schools in various forms and enhance the dual language education etc.