Schools are the most representative bearers of educational activities,they need to be built in a certain location and their development depends on a certain space.At the same time,school education is constantly shaping new social spaces in the process of development.The primary school was the main body of education in the modern Inner Mongolia region,the category of education that received the most attention and was better run by people at all levels of modern education,and one of the typical carriers in the development of modern education.This paper selects the Inner Mongolia region,which has received little attention in historical educational geography,as the study area,and takes the primary school,a typical carrier of education,as the entry point to explore the process of spatial and temporal distribution and geographical differences of modern school education in Inner Mongolia during the period 1901-1945 from the perspective of historical geography,respectively in terms of region-wide distribution,The study examines the distribution of schooling in Inner Mongolia in the period 1901-1945 from the perspective of historical geography.On the basis of an overview of the history of traditional and modern education in the study area,the development of school education is divided into four time periods and a time period is selected from each of these periods,with data on primary schools,students and teaching staff.The results show that 138 schools were established in the study area in the late Qing Dynasty(1901-1912);756 primary schools were established in 1931;1180 primary schools were established in 1936;and 1,324 primary schools were established in 1939.This is a combination of quantitative analysis and graphs to explore the distribution of schools in different periods of time,thus attempting to recreate the spatial and temporal distribution of primary schools in modern times.The distribution of primary schools is characterised by a small number of schools in the north,east and west,with significant geographical differences between the centre,east and west.At the same time,the development of schooling has significant regional differences within the different administrative divisions of Mongolian banners and counties.Therefore,this paper selects three representative case areas from the east,central and western regions,such as Hulunbuir,Guihua Tumed and Alasha Ejinna Banner,and conducts case studies on the characteristics and density of school distribution within them,and examines the reasons for the formation of regional differences in terms of population structure and changes,education funding sources and traditional culture,in an attempt to examine the reasons for the formation of school education distribution and regional differences in a case-by-case perspective This paper focuses on the causes of geographical differences in schooling.This paper focuses on the distribution of school education and its geographical differences,and for the first time uses first-hand historical materials from the archives and historical records of Alashan left Banner,the Hulunbeier City Archives and the archives of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region,including the original Mongolian and Chinese archives,to analyse the relevant issues and to study the development and characteristics of education in modern Inner Mongolia from a historical-geographical perspective. |