e-Pedagogium 2017, 17(4):51-59 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2017.052

Overview of the Development of Special Education in Tibetan Society

Bu Qiong, Miloň Potměšil
Prof. PhDr. PaedDr. Miloň Potměšil, Ph.D., Mgr. Bu Qiong, Ph.D., Institute of Special Education Studies, Faculty of Education, Palacký University in Olomouc, Žižkovo nám. 5, 771 40 Olomouc, Czech Republic, E-mails: milon.potmesil@upol.cz; 120589522@qq.com

The Tibetan nationality is one of the 55 minorities in China. Tibetan people are mainly distributed in the Tibet Autonomous Region, Qinghai Province, Gansu Province, Sichuan Province, Yunnan Province, and other regions, with a total population of about 6.4 million. Education for national minorities has always been an important component of Chinese education, while special education in Tibetan society is an important part of Chinese national education. In recent years, special education has been rapidly developed along with the establishment of special education schools in Tibetan areas, especially since 2000 and the proposal for, and implementation of, educational equality and balanced educational development in China. The paper applies a literature review, observational method, case analysis method, and simple descriptive statistical method to depict the Tibetan people's understanding of special education and the adaptation of different types of disability in Tibetan society before 2000. What is more, it takes the Tibet Autonomous Region and Sichuan Tibetan Region as examples to introduce the development of special education schools among Tibetan people after 2000 and analyze basic information about timetabling and students' skill training in special education schools among Tibetan people. It concludes that there are problems, for instance, that special schools are far from meeting the demand for education for children with special needs, curricula in schools cannot meet the demands for disabled children's localized cultural and life skills, and disabled children's early intervention and disabled teenagers' transition and settlement measures are extremely deficient in special education in Tibetan society.

Keywords: Tibetan nationality, Special Education in Tibetan Society, Development of special education

Published: December 1, 2017  Show citation

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Qiong, B., & Potměšil, M. (2017). Overview of the Development of Special Education in Tibetan Society. e-Pedagogium, 17(4), 51-59. doi: 10.5507/epd.2017.052
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