Listening And Understanding: Tibetan Students' Demand For Education

By interpreting and analyzing the field investigation and the interviewing survey of the educational demand of Tibetan students in Tibetan Middle School and Nationality Middle School of Bdae-chena Autonomous prefecture, this paper reveals several significant problems as follows: First, the Tibetan students have universal active and high demand for school education. Their ultimate purpose of entering the school is to realize their career ideals with the help of education. However, the education demand of the Tibetan students who come from poor families in the remote districts lacks availability in varying degrees because of the students' poor capability of paying for school education. Second, nationality schools' educational aim of merely cultivating talents for higher education conflicts with the Tibetan students' wish to either enter a higher school or find a job in case of failing in the entrance examination. Third, the "silence" of nationality culture in most nationality schools sharply contrasts with the Tibetan students' strong demand for studying Tibetan culture.In view of the above-mentioned problems, the paper puts forward the following suggestions: I. All levels of governments should increase investment in education to make Tibetan students' demand for school education available. II. The nationality schools in Bdae-chena should conduct courses of studying practical techniques to develop an education combining knowledge with technology as well as to prepare students for either continuing school education or taking up occupations. III. The nationality school education in Bdae-chena should take root in nationality culture and promote the spreading and the progress of nationality culture in harmonious cooperation with religious education, thereby open a new way for nationality education to meet the demands of the people and the society.