Educational Equality Among China's Minorities

Access to Majority Language and Educational Outcomes: South Asian Background Students in Postcolonial Hong Kong

“…There is evidence of lower investment in minority education in China (Bass, 1998;Postiglione, 1992) compounded by inappropriate curriculum and shortages of qualified language teachers (Postiglione, 2000;Postiglione, Jiao, & Manlaji, 2007;Postiglione, Zhu, & Jiao, 2004;Tsung, 1999). Teachers have lower expectations of minority background children (Hansen, 1999;Kwong & Xiao, 1989;Lee, 2001;White, 1998), and there is also resistance from minority groups to an education that is perceived to devalue and exclude culture, language, and tradition (Hansen, 1999;Johnson & Chhetri, 2000;Zhou, 2000). There are differences, however, with specific minority groups in China: Ethnic Koreans demonstrate positive attitudes toward Chinese language studies (Gao, 2009), but Tibetans show the opposite (Zhou, 2000).…”

Massive Open Online Courses and Educational Equality in China: A Qualitative Inquiry

“…Scholars reveal that people with various disabilities in China are much more illiterate than the general population (Epstein, 1992;Rong & Shi, 2001). Likewise, minorities are reported to have higher illiteracy rates than Han, the largest ethnic group in China (Kwong & Xiao, 1989). Even worse, recent years have seen an increase in educational costs (Chen, 2013) Inequalities in the current Chinese educational system have brought about unequal educational access for students.…”

Marching is for soldiers: Russian-born Buriat children in a Chinese bilingual school

“…Bao (1994), to analyze ethnic identity, conducted interviews at schools in Inner Mongolia. Likewise, Gerald Postiglione (1999), as well as Julia Kwong and Hong Xiao (1989) have also examined minority schooling in China, while Judith Liu, Heidi Ross and Donald Kelly (2000) have explored and encouraged significant ethnographic studies of education in China. Yet few scholars have gained access to minority classrooms in China.…”