Articles:
Project Hope and the Hope School System in China: A Re-evaluation
Chengzhi Wang
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- Title:
- Project Hope and the Hope School System in China: A Re-evaluation
- Author(s):
- Wang, Chengzhi
- Date:
- 1999
- Type:
- Articles
- Department:
- Libraries and Information Services
- Volume:
- 7
- Permanent URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:14519
- Book/Journal Title:
- Education Policy Analysis Archives
- Abstract:
- I investigate the creation, development, contributions and limits of Project Hope, a huge government-endorsed education project seeking non-governmental contributions to overcome educational inadequacy in poverty-stricken rural communities in transitional China. By reexamining the composition of sponsored students, the locations of Hope Primary Schools and non-educational orientations for building and expanding schools, I argue that Project Hope and its Hope School system have not contributed to educational access, equality, equity, efficiency and quality as it should have. Poverty-reduction-oriented curriculum requirements in Hope Primary Schools are theoretically misleading and realistically problematic.
- Subject(s):
- Elementary education
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