Household Perspectives on School Attendance in Rural Tibet

Autor/inn/en	Postiglione, Gerard; Jiao, Ben; Gyatso, Sonam
Titel	Household Perspectives on School Attendance in Rural Tibet
Quelle	In: Educational Review, 58 (2006) 3, S.317-337 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1911
Schlagwörter	Enrollment Trends; Family (Sociological Unit); Attendance Patterns; Homework; Dropout Rate; Rural Education; Foreign Countries; Access to Education; Comparative Analysis; Tuition; Sino Tibetan Languages; Language of Instruction; Labor Force; Developing Nations; Poverty; Ethnic Groups; Educational Indicators; Educational Policy; Community Surveys; Social Capital; Elementary Secondary Education; Child Labor; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Familie; Hausaufgabe; Ländliche Erwachsenenbildung; Ausland; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Unterweisung; Unterricht; Teaching language; Unterrichtssprache; Labour force; Arbeitskraft; Erwerbsbevölkerung; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Armut; Ethnie; Educational indicato; Bildungsindikator; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Sozialkapital; Child labour; Kinderarbeit
Abstract	This study explores household perspectives on school access at the village level in rural Tibet. Data from two rural areas are compared. This paper argues that despite abolition of all school fees, the use of Tibetan as a medium of instruction, the provision of boarding schools, and other incentives, dropout rates in rural areas remain high. This is largely due to the opportunity costs associated with removing a child from the household labor force. Beyond acquiring basic literacy, rural households seem less willing to make the sacrifices involved without receiving direct economic return through access to non-farm labor jobs after graduation. Nevertheless, there are other factors at work. Moreover, villages in different parts of Tibet are far from homogeneous with respect to the factors that affect school attendance. (Contains 13 notes and 5 tables.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10