Social and cultural changes and the basis for national education reform ideas - the perspective of developing the western region the background.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 32 Social and cultural changes and the basis for national education reform ideas - the perspective of developing the western region the background Abstract: The Western Region Development for ethnic regions unprecedented social and cultural changes, so that the development of national education face major opportunities and challenges. Need to strengthen national education reform and innovative ideas, innovative development model, a correct attitude toward the national cultural traditions and traditional culture. Keywords:: western development; social and cultural change; national education; innovation; basic idea of “Tenth Five-Year” period, we are committed to the National Educational Science Planning, State Key issues “Great Western Development and China’s minority education reform and development research.” In 2002, we have all walks of life, especially the western provinces of the dozens of colleagues to cooperate in the more extensive field survey, based on a preliminary cross-disciplinary analysis. This article talk about our preliminary study, the formation of a number of awareness, in particular socio-cultural change and the basis for national education reform ideas in order to attract valuable comments. 1 Western Development to make an unprecedented national education facing the development of the major opportunities and challenges. In the western region is not only inhabited by more than 50 ethnic minorities, national minorities whose population accounts for 78% of the total population, but also includes the five major ethnic autonomous regions, More than seven ethnic provinces, 20 autonomous prefectures and 49 autonomous counties. Clearly, the western development regions and ethnic minorities is also a large-scale development. Today’s western development, is in a knowledge-based economy began to take shape, through science and education, human power is growing