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NCELA Resource Collection Bibliography
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The Politics of Bilingual Education in the People's Republic of China since 1949. | |
| AN: | BE021561 |
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| TI: | The Politics of Bilingual Education in the People's Republic of China since 1949. |
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| YR: | 2001 |
| AU: | Zhou, Minglang |
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| SN: | Colorado Univ., Boulder. |
| SO: | Bilingual Research Journal; v25 n1-2 Win-Spr 2001 |
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| PT: | 080; 142 |
| AV: | National Clearinghouse for the English Language Acquisition and Language Instruction Educational Programs, 2121 K St., NW, Suite 260, Washington, DC 20037. Tel: 202-467-0867, 800-321-6223(Toll Free); Fax: 202-4674283, 800-531-9347(Toll Free). Web site: http://www.ncela.gwu.edu. |
| NT: | 22 p. Document downloaded from the Internet. |
| OL: | http://brj.asu.edu/v2512/articles/art8.html |
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Bilingual Education History Politics of Education Educational Policy Foreign Countries Government School Relationship Language Minorities Language of Instruction Policy Analysis |
| ID: | *China; Chinese Communist Party |
| AB: | The constant struggle between accommodationism and integrationism within the Chinese Communist Party divides its minorities policy and the Chinese government's language policy into three stages since 1949. The first pluralistic stage (1949-1957) recognized minorities' language rights, established infrastructures for minority education, and developed prototypes of bilingual education. The Chinese-monopolistic stage (1958-1977) unified language policies for Chinese and minority languages, promoted Chinese over minority languages in education, and reduced bilingual education to the minimal. The second pluralistic stage (1978-present) has legislated for bilingual education, revived it, and significantly developed it, but also faced its dilemmas. The Chinese experience represents, only from one perspective, the limitation of minorities' rights to and choices of education in their native languages worldwide. (Contains 48 references.) (Author) |
| SC: | Education Research; History, Legislation, and Policy |