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Disaster, Civil Society and Education in China: A Case Study of an Independent Non-Government Organization Working in the Aftermath of the Wenchuan Earthquake
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Menefee, Trey; Nordtveit, Bjorn Harald – International Journal of Educational Development, 2012
In May 2008 nearly 90,000 people died in the most powerful earthquake in modern Chinese history. Many were students killed in substandard schools, creating a sensitive disaster zone inside a nation whose civil society organizations are beginning to flourish. This paper examines the education earthquake relief program of an international NGO, and…
Descriptors: Asian Culture, Foreign Countries, Institutional Environment, Natural Disasters