OLD and shabby classrooms, broken windows and four or five students to a desk. Theresa Odishaw’s heart sank when she saw the big hole an earthquake had left in the roof. The penetrating cold and dust of the Qinghai P...OLD and shabby classrooms, broken windows and four or five students to a desk. Theresa Odishaw’s heart sank when she saw the big hole an earthquake had left in the roof. The penetrating cold and dust of the Qinghai Plateau intruded into the classroom, stinging the thinly-clad students’skin. Theresa,president of Soong Ching Ling Foundation(SCLF)of Canada,and her colleague Marian Leung,vice president of the organization,were visiting Qiying Middle School at Guyuan County, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. The Qiying Middle School was the only middle school serving an展开更多
Through funding from the Canadian International Development Agency’s(CIDA)China Program,the University of Regina(UofR),Canada,implemented two major development projects with the Educational Institute of Jilin provinc...Through funding from the Canadian International Development Agency’s(CIDA)China Program,the University of Regina(UofR),Canada,implemented two major development projects with the Educational Institute of Jilin province(EIJP)from 1990 to 2001.This paper re-examines this historic cooperation.The paper argues that prevailing theories of sustainable development which had been percolating in education faculties of Canadian universities in the 1990s allowed the UofR/EIJP program to transcend a simple international aid paradigm and to focus on the mutual benefit of the partners.At the same time,we observe that despite the enormous goodwill and institutional learning achieved through the UofR/EIJP program the project failed to live up to its significant potential.The paper concludes with some practical measures that institutions might implement to ensure important cooperative projects can build robust international capacity sustainable for the long term.展开更多
文摘OLD and shabby classrooms, broken windows and four or five students to a desk. Theresa Odishaw’s heart sank when she saw the big hole an earthquake had left in the roof. The penetrating cold and dust of the Qinghai Plateau intruded into the classroom, stinging the thinly-clad students’skin. Theresa,president of Soong Ching Ling Foundation(SCLF)of Canada,and her colleague Marian Leung,vice president of the organization,were visiting Qiying Middle School at Guyuan County, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. The Qiying Middle School was the only middle school serving an
文摘Through funding from the Canadian International Development Agency’s(CIDA)China Program,the University of Regina(UofR),Canada,implemented two major development projects with the Educational Institute of Jilin province(EIJP)from 1990 to 2001.This paper re-examines this historic cooperation.The paper argues that prevailing theories of sustainable development which had been percolating in education faculties of Canadian universities in the 1990s allowed the UofR/EIJP program to transcend a simple international aid paradigm and to focus on the mutual benefit of the partners.At the same time,we observe that despite the enormous goodwill and institutional learning achieved through the UofR/EIJP program the project failed to live up to its significant potential.The paper concludes with some practical measures that institutions might implement to ensure important cooperative projects can build robust international capacity sustainable for the long term.
