The Study Of Private Entrepreneurs' Educational Expectation To Their Children And Action Strategies

Chinese always attach importance to education, and educational expectations of parents affect their children's educational background and social status. With people improving their living, different society class have different income and lifestyle, and different environment, so they have different opinions in the children's education and different educational needs. Private entrepreneur is an important part of a new social class. According to the survey, their children have more opportunities to go to the university. It reflects that they have high educational expectations of children. We would like to ask:what is educational expectation of private entrepreneurs on their children? Why do they have such expectations of education? What action will they take?In this paper, Interviews and participant observation are combined. Through these methods, we will learn the educational expectations of Wenzhou private entrepreneurs, and cover how three dimensions factors of individual, group and society affect the educational expectation. Educational expectations of parents not only values, but also to be shown through action directly or indirectly. So educational expectations will turn into action, and affect children's performance and educational achievement. In the same way, private entrepreneurs also take action to realize reproduction. This paper also finds out their action strategy and difficult in the existing system.The paper is composed of six different chapters. The first chapter is introduction. It introduces the background of the study, the literature, and theoretical framework. The second chapter describes the development of private enterprises in Wenzhou, the characteristics of private entrepreneurs and expectations of their children's education. Chapter 3 covers the three dimensions factors of individual, group and society. It is discussed that how the factors influence the educational expectations. The fourth chapter introduces action strategies of private entrepreneurs in the process of their children access to education. Education has three areas:educational opportunities, educational process, and educational results. Bourdieu proposed three kinds of capitals can change into each other and this paper link it to three dimensions of education. Then illustrate how private entrepreneurs'strategy of use education to reproduction. Chapter five focuses on obstacles they encountered in this exiting system. The last chapter is summary and reflection. It also includes the contributions and shortcomings of this study.