The Study of Rural Migrant Children's Education Problems

Abstract

China have seen the most unprecedented economic growth in the human history. If it wasnt the continuous flow of labor, the migrant workers, migrated from the rural areas to urban areas that keep the economy productive, China would not be able to maintain such a high growth rate economically. However, these labor migrations are restricted by the dual system inside Chinas society. Although these migrate workers work in the cities, but they are still treated as rural peasants. This laid many restrictions to these migrate worker, and their own economic conditions, that made them decide to left their children in rural areas. Therefore, alongside the rising of the migrate workers, another socially vulnerable class in the Chinese society also rises the children of the migrate workers.. The main content of this work is to study the causes of the education problem of the children of migrate workers, which includes a qualitative study using economic theories and education theories to analyse the causes of education problems theoretically. Then this work also used a qualitative method by using data collected by national bureau of statistic and other researchers in this field to get a more realistic reflection on the current situation of migrate workers childrens education. All in all, the education problem of migrate workers children matters because it affects the overall quality of education and mental conditions that Chinas new generation of migrate workers would have, and the quality of labor would be the vital means that Chinas economy would have to rely on for continuous growth.