Hope for Girls’ Education in Poverty-Stricken Areas: The School-Running Experience and Process of Huaping Girls’ High School in Yunnan, China
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Aug 30, 2020
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As a measure to eradicate poverty, education has become the choice of more and more countries in the world. The development of girls’ education is an important means to break the intergenerational transmission of poverty. In the practice of poverty alleviation through supporting education, the Chinese government strives to solve the problem of poverty by developing education for girls. In this process, the government, enterprises, institutions, and individuals have made tremendous efforts one after another. Teacher Guimei Zhang used her efforts to set up the first high school for girls in Huaping County of Lijiang, the poorest western part of Yunnan Province, China, providing valuable educational opportunities for school-age girls in poverty-stricken areas for free. The school challenges the current education system. Girls can enter the school based on their will without the entrance examination. All students have achieved impressive and outstanding outcomes. This article records in detail the school-running experience, process, and propositions of Huaping Girls’ High School.
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Poverty Alleviation by Supporting Education, Girl Education, Education Opportunity, High School Education, School Management
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Hattie, J.A.C. (1992) Measuring the effects of schooling. Australia Journal of Ed-ucation, 36(1):5-13.
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Niu, Q., & Xu, Li. (2018) Breaking through the shackles of poverty culture on education: Also on poor women and their education status. Contemporary Education Forum, 2:33-45. [Chinese]
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Sen, G. (2014) Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls, UN Chronicle, 4(51). [Chinese]
Tang, Q. (2014) Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and fair quality education and promote life-long learning opportunities for all, United Nations Chronicle, 4(51). [Chi-nese]
Tang, T. (1995) Building water ponds according to local conditions and speeding up the pace of poverty alleviation and prosperity: A preliminary study on the economic development of the ethnically impoverished areas in the moun-tainous areas of Huaping County. Yunnan Politic News, (7):40-41. [Chinese]
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Xu, H., Wang, Y., & Xu, K. (2020) New international trends in educational poverty alleviation. Chinese Education News, 05-08-2020 (5th edition). [Chinese]
Yao, J.J., Rao, J.L., Jiang, T., & Xiong, C. (2020) What role should teachers play in online teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic? Evidence from China. Science Insights Education Frontiers, 5(2):517-524.
Yue, Z.Q., & Yin, K. (2020) Opening or solidifying? The trend of the intergenerational mobility in China since the implementation of the reform and opening-up policy. Science Insights Education Frontiers, 6(1):579-598.
Zhang, G. (2014) The importance of cultivating students’ good study habits. Curriculum Education Research, 3:86. [Chinese]
Zhang, H., & Xing, M. (2020) Research on poverty alleviation ability, endogenous motivation, and educational poverty alleviation policy satisfaction. Education Economy, 36(3):10-17. [Chinese]
Zhang, P.P, & Hu, Y.M. (2019) What role does school play in helping socioeconomically disadvantaged students succeed against the odds? Best Evidence of Chinese Education, 2(2):243-263.
Zhang, Y. (2020) The country’s rural poverty population will be reduced by 11.09 million in 2019. Guangming Daily, 01-24-2020 (03 edition). [Chinese]
Zhao, Z. (2015) Poverty alleviation, starting from the baby (Minsheng Shixian). People’s Daily, 11-13-2020 (17th edi-tion).
Zhu, Y. (2017) On the significance and strategy of popularizing high school education. Shanghai Education Research, (05):24-27. [Chinese]
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Zhu, H. (2020). Hope for Girls’ Education in Poverty-Stricken Areas: The School-Running Experience and Process of Huaping Girls’ High School in Yunnan, China. Science Insights Education Frontiers, 6(2), 653–667. https://doi.org/10.15354/sief.20.or035
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