{"id":407,"date":"2014-04-21T21:02:22","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T02:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/perkins\/?page_id=407"},"modified":"2014-04-22T19:12:36","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T00:12:36","slug":"2007-fieldschool-in-guangxi-china","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/perkins\/2007-fieldschool-in-guangxi-china\/","title":{"rendered":"2007 Fieldschool in Guangxi, China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.727272033691406px\">In the summer of 2007, the Vanderbilt Center for Community Studies spearheaded a <\/span><a title=\"HOD field schools\" href=\"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/perkins\/projects\/fieldschools\/\" target=\"_blank\">fieldschool program<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12.727272033691406px\"> centered on community research and action in Guangxi Autonomous Region of southern China. Both undergraduate and graduate students participated in the 2007 China Fieldschool, the first of its kind in East Asia comprised of Vanderbilt students and Chinese collaborators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Research groups addressed needs in the rapidly growing, industrial city of Liuzhou in Guangxi.\u00a0 In the semester immediately prior to travel, participants enrolled in a Human and Organizational Development course titled Community Health, Education and Change in China.\u00a0 The course educated students in the social, cultural, economic and political aspects of the Guangxi Province, while preparing each group for summer work in Guangxi.<\/p>\n<p>The Guangxi Autonomous region in southern China, which borders Vietnam, is an area steeped in history, beauty and a rich culture. However, it largely has missed out on the rapid economic growth along China\u2019s increasingly affluent coast.<\/p>\n<p>The 2007 China Fieldschool focused on socio-cultural, health promotion, economic, educational and urban\/regional planning aspects of community development.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more about the 2007 China Fieldschool:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/peabody.vanderbilt.edu\/docs\/pdf\/hod\/cda\/ChinaFieldSchool-Introduction.pdf\">Introduction<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/peabody.vanderbilt.edu\/docs\/pdf\/hod\/cda\/ChinaFieldSchool-EnglishLanguageProject.pdf\">English Language Project<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/peabody.vanderbilt.edu\/docs\/pdf\/hod\/cda\/ChinaFieldSchool-HealthPromotionProject.pdf\">Health Promotion Project<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/peabody.vanderbilt.edu\/docs\/pdf\/hod\/cda\/ChinaFieldSchool-RuralProject.pdf\">Rural Project<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/peabody.vanderbilt.edu\/docs\/pdf\/hod\/cda\/ChinaFieldSchool-UrbanProject.pdf\">Urban Project<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/peabody.vanderbilt.edu\/docs\/pdf\/hod\/cda\/ChinaUrbanNeeds-Measure.pdf\">Urban Needs Measure<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the summer of 2007, the Vanderbilt Center for Community Studies spearheaded a fieldschool program centered on community research and action in Guangxi Autonomous Region of southern China. Both undergraduate and graduate students participated in the 2007 China Fieldschool, the first of its kind in East Asia comprised of Vanderbilt students and Chinese collaborators. Research&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/perkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/perkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/perkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/perkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/perkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/perkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/perkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/407\/revisions\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/perkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/perkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}