Forums > Study > research in China I wish it would be that "easy". I am really worried because of the visa. If this wouldn´t be such a huge problem, I would just go there. I would book a flight and just go there and ask the schools by myself and if I need to go to an office, I would just go there. The chance would be bigger that they allow me doing research than just sending emails. But even if my friend invites me, I can stay 90 days, but what happens after 90 days? I would like to have more time, to be more integrated, to get more informations and to maybe restructure my sample.
I don´t know, I am still super frustrated, because I right now I still don´t know how to handle it (more than 50 emails by now...)
Forums > Study > research in China so as my major is sociology my intenton is to look at teachers´s ageny and how they act in classroom (seen as a social field). I don´t know how familiar you with sociology, but I will make use of Pierre Bourdieu and Anthony Giddens. Socialization isn´t the "main" topic, but of course, it will be part of it, because socialization also takes part in the classroom. It is about interaction, different methods, how students learn and how teachers motivate them to learn and then look into different schools and how they (maybe or maybe not) handle it different. I want to have a look at different ages, to see how the process can be seen at what differences at different ages I can see. I chose moral education, because it is an important topic for the idenity of student and it is interesting how they learn about.
Obviousely, these are just some words about my topic and I already did a lot of research and I know a lot of chinese schools and how they teach and I already have been one year at a chinese school. So I have an idea, I have an impression, I have theories and so on and so on, but how it really differs (or if it differs) I will only see when I am able to observe classes and interview teachers. It isn´t at all a political topic, but of course, I need to know the contect of tje subject and so on, but I will not make the political content to a topic during my interviews.
I hope this gave you an insight, because most of the time people misunderstand me or think my topic is an illusion and I am stupid that I want to do it. But I know what I do, I know the risks, how sensitive it is and that teacher maybe don´t say anything, because they are not allowed. :)
But as if I am not able to get the visa, I maybe will not be able to even go to China.
And, minorities is very interesting, because I lived in a small village near Pu'er. I really would like to go to the countryside and go to more rural areas and have an insight in the school situations and then compare it with a "bigger" city.
Forums > Study > research in China yes, my friend from pu'er already called the office of foreign affairs, his friend works at the pu'er college. So it doesn´t matter if email or personal contact, the people in pu'er just can´t help me. I didn´t think that it would be so difficult to get the visa for more than three months, I really thought that it wouldn´t be that difficult to geht some help. But, I will ask for the language school and I also asked my german professor. And I don´t know, maybe it will work out. Others also handled it, so I also need a way to handle it.
Thank you!
Forums > Study > research in China yes, of course, I need to be careful how I tell others about my project and what it is about. But fun fact, I never sent anyone any of my proposals or anything else. Because my first sentences are always just introducing, where I am from, what I am doing and that I want to do research at chinese schools, but not my specific topic. (not like 'to go like a bull at a gate') Because the first steps were to get in contact with the person and then go deeper. I always mentioned that i could send my research plan or anything else. But as I said, no one ever answered me.
Forums > Study > research in China I wouldn´t do that anyway, so if I would try to do it with a language study visa I would ask my friend if there are any in Pu'er. Because otherwise I wouldn´t have a good time in China, just too risky.
But for that, I will wait if kurtosis knows if his friend got the permission for his research or if he knows how he handled it.
I don´t want to do research without permission anyway, so some schools already know what I want to do, because my friends asked them. And the schools said that they can´t decide it. But I guess, the best option still is, when I am there and ask for the permission (as still no one answered me), my friend in Pu'er even made a phone call to the office of foreign affairs in Pu'er, asked if they could help me. But there is still no way.
