"March 2020"--Table of contents page. "This report was researched and written by members of the China team at Human Rights Watch. The report was edited by Sophie Richardson, China director"--Page 91. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Summary -- Recommendations -- Methodology -- Erosion of Tibetan as medium of instruction in primary schools -- "Bilingual kindergartens" -- "Ethic mingling" -- Protests and resistance -- Appendices.
Summary:
The Chinese government's education policy in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) is significantly reducing the access of ethnic Tibetans to education in their mother tongue. Although the policy claims to promote bilingual education, it is in practice, leading to the gradual replacement of Tibetan by Chinese as the medium of instruction in primary schools throughout the region, except for classes studying Tibetan as a language. This report details how state polices now mean that more primary schools and even kindergartens use Chinese as the teaching language for Tibetan students, and documents the impact on Tibetan families and children. Since the policies were introduced, Tibetans have staged protests against them, and written documents by students, scholars, and others attest to continuing concern about the direction of China's education policies for Tibetans. Human Rights Watch urges the Chinese government to ensure that all Tibetan children can learn in and use Tibetan, to end policies that erode access to mother tongue education, and to end repression of peaceful activism in support of language rights.
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