Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The fate of rural children is critical to China's future. Providing quality education could mean the difference between millions growing up in a cycle of poverty and exploitation and a new generation of capable citizens who help solve these problems.

Project Message

Before RCEF, I didn't know there are so many people out there who care about rural schools. I am very happy that I got in contact with you. You gave me new motivation and ideas to improve teaching.
- Zhang Haitao, Principal, Dayang Primary School

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Diane Geng,
Co-Founder, Co-Executive Director
PO Box 92424
Rochester, New York 14692-0424
United States
8613718019332
Email:

Project Sponsor

Center for Global Engagement, Northwestern Univ

Organisation

Rural China Education Foundation PO Box 92424 Rochester, NY 14692-0424 United States 585-672-4938 http://www.ruralchina.org

Learn more about Rural China Education Foundation and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in China and can also be found under Education.

For more information about China, read the Human Development Report on China or the Wikipedia entry for China.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on January 25, 2012.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on April 23, 2008.

Latest Update from the Field

Shining Example at Rural Education Conference

By Diane Geng - Executive Director, January 25, 2012 02:42 PM

Teacher Sun spoke at this national conference.

Over the past several months, RCEF has been busy promoting service learning teaching methodology amongst teachers and NGOs that work with rural children. Service learning is an educational approach that cultivates civic responsibility by integrating academic learning and personal growth with meaningful service to the community. In a typical service-learning project, students identify problems that they are concerned about in their community, research the problems and potential solutions, create and implement a plan for addressing the problem, and reflect on their learning and action throughout the process.

A new RCEF handbook on service learning presents this teaching methodology in detail along with practical examples of how RCEF teachers have applied it in rural China. Over 200 copies were distributed to participants at a national conference on rural education in December 2011 in Guangzhou, China. A RCEF teacher with over 15 years experience teaching in village schools in northern China gave a well-received presentation about the service learning projects she and RCEF developed with classes of fourth- and fifth-grade children in rural Shanxi Province. Her story was so moving that a reporter from a national education magazine profiled her and these teaching methods for a cover feature story that will come out in their February 2012 edition! 

Teacher Sun and her students on a field trip.

Links:

• Article published in Solutions Journal
• Annual Report 2011

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