笔者近几年承担了政府、世界银行、亚洲开发银行和美国福特基金会的西部少数民族教育研究的项目期间,在西部偏远贫困少数民族地区作了大量的教育人类学的田野工作,发现当前我国西部偏远贫困农村地区少数民族基础教育有着三个主要问题:“义务教育不义务”加重了低收入人群的负担 In recent years, I undertook a large number of field work in educational anthropology in the remote areas of poverty and ethnic minorities in western China during the project of education and research on western ethnic minorities in the government, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the Ford Foundation in the United States. The basic education for ethnic minorities in remote and poor rural areas of the west has three major problems: “the obligation of compulsory education” aggravates the burden of low-income people