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Moralities and Contradictories in the Educational Aid for Tibet: Contesting the Multi-Layered Saviour Complex
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Yang, Miaoyan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
Since 2015, China has established a 'Group Form of Educational Aid for Tibet' programme to dispatch ethnic Han majority teachers from inland cities to teach in Tibetan schools for a short period of time. Through the programme, the state aims to offer the gift of educational development to this highland area with a concentrated Tibetan minority…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Asians, Program Descriptions, Educational Development
The Importance of Language Vocabulary and Language Usage for Sociocultural Adjustment among Indonesian Adolescents from Three Bilingual Ethnic Groups
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Sari, Betty Tjipta; Chasiotis, Athanasios; van de Vijver, Fons J. R.; Bender, Michael – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
We investigated how the knowledge and usage of two languages relate to sociocultural adjustment in bilingual adolescent samples from three ethnic groups in Indonesia (214 Javanese, 108 Toraja, and 195 Chinese adolescents; 272 females; M[subscript age] = 14.33 years). We tested a model specifying that the vocabulary knowledge of each language…
Descriptors: Asians, Ethnic Groups, Language Usage, Sociocultural Patterns
The Kakyo: Chinese in Japan.
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Maher, John C. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1995
Discusses the role of the Chinese language and people in Japan, focusing on the historical impact of the Chinese language and culture on Japan, Chinese schools in Japan, and local Chinese immigrant communities. (20 references) (MDM)
Descriptors: Asian History, Bilingual Education, Chinese, Chinese Culture