The "Field Education" of Going Abroad -- Shanghai Foreign Studies University Innovative Training of Regional and National Talents
2022-11-24
In the office of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Uzbekistan, which is about 5000 kilometers away from Shanghai, people often see a Chinese girl who is busy with her colleagues to help the local people. Last November, Ma Zhenhua, a 2021 graduate of Shanghai Foreign Studies University majoring in regional country studies, came here to become a project assistant. She called her organization "Field Office". In Ma Zhenhua's opinion, the "field offices" in Central Asia are called "field offices" because they prefer real "field surveys" to implement projects at the grass-roots level. From seeking sponsorship to communicating with the local government, from the specific design of each project to risk assessment, project monitoring, humanitarian assistance, women's rights, climate change and so on, these grand and abstract concepts and ideas have become a concrete reality step by step in the hands of her colleagues. In 2018, Ma Zhenhua came to Shanghai Foreign Studies University and became the first student of regional country studies (the characteristic postgraduate class of Eurasian civilization studies, hereinafter referred to as the "Eurasian class"). A lot of reading and intensive academic training helped Ma Zhenhua establish a more perfect knowledge structure, and various academic activities, such as field work, greatly broadened her horizon. Ma Zhenhua's affinity with Uzbekistan began with two academic activities in the Eurasian class. In 2019, she and her classmates followed Professor Yang Cheng, the head of the Eurasian class, to Kazakhstan to conduct a month long field survey on the "the Belt and Road". Later, Ma Zhenhua went to Uzbekistan with Miss Yang for a field survey, which made her feel familiar with the country. How to work in the United Nations? In what capacity did it develop there? In which direction should we work? The answers to these outstanding questions have gradually emerged. "After joining the Eurasian class, my goals were refined. I began to think more deeply about what I could do in the future to make the world a better place. Our focus is on Central Asia, and I hope that the knowledge I learned can open up ideas for a development issue in Central Asia and can do some practical projects." Ma Zhenhua recalled. The more grounded "field education" and "field research", also known as "field research", refer to field participation in field research work. It is the practice and application of the basic research methodology from cultural anthropology and archaeology, that is, "direct observation method". "Fieldwork, as its name implies, is the collection and identification of information through the research practice of the 'direct observation method'. Now there are teachers at home and abroad conducting fieldwork in Afghanistan." Jiang Feng, secretary of the Party Committee of Shanghai Foreign Studies University, said that through field research, you can directly contact the Afghan people and also directly talk with Afghan government officials. The reliability of obtaining information is far higher than that of information about Afghanistan transferred secondhand through other foreign media, and even can identify and even affect the information released by these foreign media. "This kind of field ability is mostly obtained through field practice, rather than through book teaching." The teacher Jiang Feng mentioned is Professor Wang Duanyong from the School of International Relations and Public Affairs of Shanghai International Studies University
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