Reaching the Marginalized Rural Poor:A Study of a Multi-purpose Community Learning Center in Yunnan Province
Given the diverse rural contexts,education for rural transformation has to be linked to the specific learning needs of the rural community for skills and capacities development.A multi-sectoral educational approach that integrates formal,non-formal and informal education is necessary.Community learning center (CLCs),as a bottom-up approach which emphasizes the empowerment of grassroots level,has become popular both in foreign aid programs and in national initiatives.As an extremely poor and agriculture-based province,rural development is vital for Yunnan province.The rationale for selecting Yunnan province also lies in the high ethnic diversity which implies highly diverse learning needs.The case CLC which composes of four pillars:a training center,a library,a development center and a cultural activity center,is designed accordingly to the local environment.The idea of participatory-learning and closer link between school and community seems to resulting in comprehensive benefits to different gender,age and group of rural people.This study,thus,argues that education has to be flexible in delivering model in order to be the vehicle of rural transformation.Also,it is intended to investigate how educational program is planned and implemented as to be vitalized in local conditions.
Wen Zhang
国际会议
Dujiangyan International Forum -UNESCO Chengdu Conference(2011都江堰国际论坛-联合国教科文组织成都会议)
成都
英文
264-275
2011-08-06（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）