Mainstreaming or Maintaining

Ethnic Minorities and Their Education in Southwest China

Wei Wang

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781032882642
• eBook ISBN: 9781040193488
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Education Teaching Methods
• Index: Social Sciences

The book explores how ethnic minority culture is integrated into school practices inside and outside classrooms in Southwest China.

The author investigates the challenges in teaching and administration teachers have encountered in Chinese ethnic minority regions, specifically problems faced by teachers in ethnic Dai and ethnic Tujia; and how pre-service teachers are trained in current teacher education programmes in ethnic minority regions. Drawing on the theoretical frameworks of multicultural education and internal orientalism, the author contextualises multicultural education by analysing Chinese academic debates on the subject as well as investigating how political, social and cultural forces influence education for ethnic minorities in Southwest China.

The book will appeal to scholars and graduate students in the fields of education, cultural studies, China studies and ethnic studies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• Acknowledgements
• List of acronyms and abbreviations
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Ethnic minorities and their education in China
• 3 How did Chinese scholars discuss on ethnic minority education?
• 4 How do ethnic minority cultures manifest in mainstream schooling? the Xishuangbanna and Qianjiang case
• 5 How do teacher education institutions train future teachers for ethnic minority education?
• 6 Conclusion and final remark: Towards an alternative of intercultural education
• Appendix 1: Informed consent
• Appendix 2: Interview guides
• Appendix 3: Coding process (analysis of interviews conducted in Xishuangbanna and Qianjiang)
• Appendix 4: List of interviews translated and quoted in each chapter
• Index