what should we do for the poor area education?

When I was reading the article, the exceptional case about Sara made me think of the western part of China, the very poor area education.

Here is a video about the area, I would like to share.

According to China’s sustainable development strategy report of 2012, there are 128 million poverty populations in China, whose annual income is under 2300yuan RMB (416,760WON) which is the similar amount of Japan’s population and more than two times of South Korea’s population.

From this video, we can see what they got for children education.

Of course, China government has made policies to help them and some enterprise has donated money to build schools for them, which is called hope primary school in Chinese. Some social organizations has called people to donate clothes and books for them, university students spend summer and winter vocations to teach them.

However, except for these basic needs, no one care further more about their education quality. Why? Because having a proper school, have real desks and benches, enough books, pencils and notebooks are already good enough for them? All this stuff, even high technology multimedia, has been taken for granted in our daily education. What do we care for our education? Do students like the teaching method? Does the education promote students to integrated education? Is banking education or problem-posing education good for students?

But do people have this similar concern to these poverty children?

Therefore, my first question is

Does this critical pedagogy suitable for them?

Or   do these children need critical education?

Think about this: what kinds of issues do we talk about under critical pedagogy:

Ideology, racism, sexism, feminism and other social class issues. Do these poverty children care about these social issues? Do these children need this kind of critical pedagogy?

Yes, I think they need critical pedagogy in their education even more than us.

o   The proposer of critical pedagogy Paulo Freire had a poor life when he was young; he said “I didn't understand anything because of my hunger. I wasn't dumb. It wasn't lack of interest. My social condition didn't allow me to have an education. Experience showed me once again the relationship between social class and knowledge" (Freire). This influenced his decision to dedicate his life to improving the lives of the poor. Therefore, I believe that the poor kids need critical education more than us.

However, what kind of critical pedagogy do they need?

Do they care about the social issues that we mentioned before?

I like the sentence in the first article: actual experience is quite different from hypothetical solutions!

I have another video to show:

Their parents working in the city’s construction sites, factories and other dirty and messy places those native citizens don’t like to work at. Their dreams are going to work like their parents.But, they are called "Migrant workers".