A Study on the Efficacy of Supplementary Educational Initiatives in Elementary Schools in Economically Disadvantaged Regions: A Case Study of Sishui Elementary School

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10.2991/978-2-38476-475-4_63How to use a DOI?

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teaching activity evaluation; cultural hegemony deconstruction; educational power reconstruction; local curriculum development

Abstract

This study employs Sishui Primary School in Hele Town, Wanning City, Hainan Province as a case study, utilizing Paulo Freire’s critical theory of “banking education” and Henry Giroux’s theoretical framework of “education as a political practice.” Through qualitative research methods, it conducts multi-subject discourse analysis and deconstructs power relations based on interview data to examine the ideological implications of volunteer teaching activities within educational poverty alleviation initiatives. Key findings reveal three principal dimensions: Firstly, while introducing innovative pedagogical approaches, volunteer teaching inadvertently reinforces urban-centered educational hegemony; Secondly, collaborative networks established with village committees essentially function as conduits for local power structures to permeate the educational domain; Thirdly, the short-term volunteer teaching model obscures structural contradictions in urban-rural educational resource distribution through a “charity narrative.” The study contends that reconstructing volunteer teaching logic necessitates interventions across three dimensions: dismantling cultural hegemony, empowering local educational autonomy, and enhancing multi-stakeholder capabilities. This transformation is essential to achieving a paradigm shift from “resource input” towards “educational liberation.”

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AU  - Hoyi Shen
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/11/11
TI  - A Study on the Efficacy of Supplementary Educational Initiatives in Elementary Schools in Economically Disadvantaged Regions: A Case Study of Sishui Elementary School
BT  - Proceedings of the 2025 10th International Conference on Modern Management, Education and Social Sciences (MMET 2025)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 560
EP  - 571
SN  - 2352-5398
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