Paper short abstract:

The first part of my presentation will discuss different stages of minority educational reforming process, both bilingual and curriculum reforming educational policy will be discussed in detail. Second part of my presentation will discuss why our newly initiated, insightful, innovative, and visionary project proposed by Dr. Professor Chair Rik Pinxten from Ghent University, is urgently needed for studying China’s national minority’s natural science education policy and related legal theories and practises, especially in China’s poverty regions. The debate between Bonnie Johnson (exclusionary policies and practises in Chinese minority education) and Wang CZ / Zhou QH (from state preferential policies to dislocated Tibetan schools) Chen Yangbin’s (Uyghur boarding school) writings all touched important issues for today’s minority education question both for china and for our global world: Existing literature on ethnic minority’s education reform in western language mainly focused on national minority education with identity issues, (Hansen M H C 1999; identity limited in an exclusive old fashion European Nation state sense and framework – issues raised and studies are limited 21st century’s globalisation process requires China’s leaders and global scholars plan and learn from each other, from isolation to constructive dialogue). Finally I will discuss the practical implication of the project: The main fruits of this project should centered to eight aspects: the Ghent University’s educational language policy, especially its both learning and teaching language policy in its science department in early 1930s, one of the beautiful result - was the university's historical Nobel winner scholar from its science department.

Paper long abstract:

Applied Anthropological Research Project on Math, Environmental Science Education in China's Poverty and Border Minority Regions

--- Some Improvement Suggestion and Thoughts

Wu Ga

YASS Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences Kunming Yunnan China

wugamoyass@gmail.com

Visiting Post-Doctor Fellow and Scholar Ghent University Ghent Belgium

Ga.wu@ugent.be

Key words

Multicultural ethnic Country ; minority science education and ethnomathematics Curriculum ; Escaping-poverty in the Countryside of the Poor

Abstract

All these related problems leads the third stage and current minority educational reform for the 21st century, ----the math and science curricula reform project, 数学与自然科学课程改革计划in this new project, suggestedquestions should be addressed are: all reasons related to why either type school did not provide genuine bilingual education; or they did provide in some schools but have not summerized and concluded? the research project should show and try to provide an example of how bilingual education should connect with local native science system curriculum constructing and building efforts, math and science education should reflect local minority wisdom and local culture history and new textbook should list and discuss local minority people's science concepts and special mountain enviomental names and terms, minority schools with extra minority knowledge or native textbooks as reference materials might address issues of educational outcomes.

Reference: Wu Ga: 2001 Issues in Female Minority Higher Education in 21scentury China; Special Report for the Ford Foundation New York and Beijing Office; 伍呷.彝族的经典与族群认同.YI nationality's classics and identity transformation project见:周大鸣编.中国的族群与族群关系[C].南宁:广西民族出版社,2002.291-292.