Abstract
Buddhist temple education and national compulsory education coexisting in the Dai cultural region of Xishuangbanna is a specific phenomenon in China’s educational context. The balance between these two distinct education forms is conducive to the further development of ethnic minority education in this region, so determining how to balance these two forms of education has attracted researchers’ interests. In this study, we analyzed the data collected from interviews with 29 participants based on their views and experiences of these two education forms. The results highlight the collision between these two education forms; the possible reasons for this collision are discussed in this paper. We propose that the co-flourishing of these two forms of education could reasonably promote the sustainable development of ethnic minority education in the Dai cultural region of Xishuangbanna.
Highlights
The conflict between Buddhist temple education (BTE) and the national compulsory education (NCE) is threatening the sustainable development of ethnic minority education in the Dai cultural region of Xishuangbanna, China (Hansen, 1999)
We propose that the co-flourishing of these two forms of education could reasonably promote the sustainable development of ethnic minority education in the Dai cultural region of Xishuangbanna
We found that the conflicts between these two forms of education are mainly reflected in four aspects: the legal sphere, students’ academic performance, the admission age and schedule, and the teaching content
Summary
The conflict between Buddhist temple education (BTE) and the national compulsory education (NCE) is threatening the sustainable development of ethnic minority education in the Dai cultural region of Xishuangbanna, China (Hansen, 1999). Kang ticularity of ethnic minority education in the Dai cultural region of Xishuangbanna lies in the coexistence of the BTE and NCE (Li & Moore, 2014; Zheng, 2011). Since the 1950s, when China’s communist regime set up primary and secondary schools in this area, the coexistence of BTE and national education has continued. Since China began to implement the compulsory education policy in 1986, the conflict between the BTE and the NCE has become increasingly difficult to reconcile. Determining how to balance the relationship between BTE and NCE in this region has become an urgent problem to be solved
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