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Development of What, for What, and for Whom?

Deweyan Perspectives on Education for Minority Nationalities in Western China

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This chapter examines educational development among the minority nationalities of Western China, including Baoan, Dongxiang, Hui, Kazak, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Salar, Tajik, Tatar, Tibetan, Tu, Uygur, Uzbek, Xibe, and Yughur nationalities. The introductory section of the chapter surveys a range of understandings of development and quality in education and the assumptions underlying them and debates on education of non-dominant groups in general, and proceeds to the more particular issue of minority education and development, internationally, and in China.

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Bahry, S.A. (2016). Development of What, for What, and for Whom?. In: Lee, J.CK., Yu, Z., Huang, X., Law, E.HF. (eds) Educational Development in Western China. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-232-5_3

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