Pathways for Forging a Sense of Community for the Chinese Nation in Primary and Secondary School Education

Abstract

Primary and secondary school education holds dual implications in forging a sense of community for the Chinese nation. Primary and secondary school education is not only the main battlefield for the normalization of education for identification with the community of the Chinese nation, but also an important field for promoting interactions, exchanges and intermingling between ethnic groups. This means that creating mechanisms for the normalization of promotional education for forging a sense of community for the Chinese nation within educational practices at primary and secondary schools is particularly important. Therefore, models for primary and secondary school education should be continuously restructured and improved by perfecting work for moral education, restructuring education and teaching systems, building mutually embedded educational fields, applying innovative educational thinking, and other pathways, to better adapt to the requirements for cultivating a sense of community for the Chinese nation among primary and secondary school students in the new era, and cause school education to become an important promotional force for the construction of the community of the Chinese nation.

Keywords:

• Exchanges and integration between ethnic groups
• forging a sense of community for the Chinese nation
• interactions
• mutual embedding
• primary and secondary school education

Acknowledgments

“Studies of Ethnic Identification and National Identification in School Education in Ethnic Regions from the Perspective of Pluralistic Unity” (多元一体视角下民族地区学校教育中的族群认同与国家认同研究 Duoyuan yiti shijiao xia minzu diqu xuexiao jiaoyu zhong de zuqun rentong yu guojia rentong yanjiu) (19AMZ012), a key project of the National Social Science Fund of China.

Notes

1 The "Eight Upholds" refers to the following principles: (1) Upholding the leadership of the Communist Party of China. (2) Upholding the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics. (3) Upholding the safeguarding of the unity of the motherland. (4) Upholding the equality of all ethnic groups. (5) Upholding and improving the system of regional ethnic autonomy. (6) Upholding the common unity, struggle, and shared prosperity and development of all ethnic groups. (7) Upholding the ideological foundation of the Chinese nation as a community. (8) Upholding the rule of law.

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Notes on contributors

Tongkai Yuan

Tongkai Yuan is a professor at Nankai University, Tianjin.

Chaoliang Feng

Chaoliang Feng is a doctoral student at Nankai University, Tianjin.