Neglected Part of Education Sustainability: Social Work Intervention on the Quality of Extracurricular Life of Migrant Workers’ Children

Lin Liu,Fengzhi Ma,Huiyuan Qiang

doi:10.3390/su14052486

Abstract

The extracurricular life and education of migrant children are significant to the formation of personality and values, but it has been ignored for a long time. The aim of this study is to obtain evidence supporting the theoretical argument that social work intervention in extracurricular education can have a positive impact on migrant children’s learning ability, social adaptability, personality, and interest shaping. From the perspective of practice, including participatory observation and case study method, this paper analyzes the situation of 71 migrant children in order to improve their extracurricular life quality by social work intervention. In the short term, project members have generally developed good study habits. In the long term, the academic performance is generally excellent, which is beneficial to the development of school teaching tasks. The project has an obvious beneficial impact on the academic learning ability and mental health of migrant workers’ children, especially the ability of social adaptation and the shaping of personality interests. The project helps to strengthen the sustainability of migrant children’s education.

Highlights

In China, since the 1990s, a large number of migrant workers have poured into cities and become the main force in urban construction and development
This paper focuses on the area of extracurricular life that has been neglected for a long time, trying to understand the situation of migrant workers’ children after school, and find out the internal and external causes of the monotonous and boring extracurricular life, so as to intervene and improve in a targeted manner
With full consideration of the background of the social work intervention and service in the Young Eagle Flying (YEF) project, we have set the goal of social work intervention and based on this, we have formulated the theme of each service activity

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Introduction

In China, since the 1990s, a large number of migrant workers have poured into cities and become the main force in urban construction and development. In cities with a large number of rural immigrants, such as Beijing and Shanghai, through the epidemiological survey of COVID-19 published by the government, we can distinguish whether a specific individual is a local urban resident or a rural immigrant. Affected by factors such as the household registration system, the social security system, and the needs of enterprises, most migrant workers, compared with the urban population, belong to urban industrial workers, but belong to the disadvantaged group in employment competition. Migrants from rural to urban areas have attracted a great deal of attention in sustainability research [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8].

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