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Learning to love the motherland

Educating Tibetans in China

Bibliographic Data

ID8123780
AuthorsCatriona Ba (corresponding author), Catriona Bass
Year2005
Volume34
Issue4
Pages433-449
Publication date2005-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Moral Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0305-7240 • E-ISSN: 1465-3877
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03057240500410194
OpenAlexW1989974002
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited7

A major goal of education for Tibetans, as for all China's ‘minority nationalities’, has been to encourage patriotism towards China and to foster a sense of nationhood. This paper considers the ways in which this priority has conditioned the schooling of Tibetans since 1950. Although this priority is unchanging, the paper looks at how it varies in degree and content as political leaders or policies change. An analysis of the primary curriculum reveals the process whereby Tibetan ethnicity is recreated through selective rendering of elements of Tibetan culture, history and religion to reposition it in the Chinese national context. It argues that while in central China the ideological content of the curriculum may have diminished with economic development, in Tibet, as in other border regions, the particular blend of patriotic and moral education is likely to continue as long as the Chinese state feels threatened by outside cultural and political influences

China · Context (archaeology · Curriculum · Ethnic group · Ideology · Patriotism · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law

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Unique citing works10
Citations per year0,53
Citation span2007 - 2026 (20)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 10
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