Students Setting out to Alleviate "Poverty of Spirit" in Rural China Found Themselves Transformed: Self-Organized Volunteerism among University Students for Rural Development

Autor/in	Geng, Diane
Titel	Students Setting out to Alleviate "Poverty of Spirit" in Rural China Found Themselves Transformed: Self-Organized Volunteerism among University Students for Rural Development
Quelle	In: Chinese Education and Society, 41 (2008) 3, S.72-84 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1061-1932
DOI	10.2753/CED1061-1932410308
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Rural Development; Student Volunteers; Rural Education; Poverty; College Students; Higher Education; Agricultural Production; Rural Areas; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Rural environment; Development; Ländliches Milieu; Entwicklung; Ländliche Erwachsenenbildung; Armut; Collegestudent; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Agriculture; Production; Landwirtschaft; Produktion; Agrarproduktion; Landwirtschaftliche Produktion; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum
Abstract	Most university students in China have their sights firmly set on future job and study opportunities in urban cities and abroad. However, a network of student volunteers felt compelled to join the cause of rural development and villager empowerment, reminiscent of efforts promoted forty years ago by Chairman Mao who sent "educated youth" down to the countryside to learn from the villagers. Diane Geng joined a volunteer brigade in Shandong province. She reports here on some of the motivations and methods and the impact of their efforts for "rural reconstruction." (Contains 2 notes.) (As Provided).
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