Living On The Margin

"To sympathize with the weak and pay close attention to the weak" is the call of society fairness and the need of structuring the bright society. It's very important to study the students in rural weak middle school while Education equity is conspicuous day by day. Comparing with other schools, the weak school 's social resources and the students' credits are poor. Therefore, it's on the lowest rung, which is unfavorable to students. Students in the rural weak middle school are real weak because there is spatial difference between the urban and the rural in the binary social structure. Living on the edge, they are discriminated and misunderstood by others. And few researchers pay attention to them. L middle school is a rural weak middle school in S county of Nanning. The author lived in the school for more than one month, collected materials by interviewing, observing, collecting objects and so on. This study chooses a girl student named QIN Chunyun as the case in order to present students'existence condition and intrinsic world in rural weak middle school. This dissertation includes four parts: The first part includes the contents of the study, the characteristics and value of narrative inquiry, how the authors began with the study, how to chose the case, and how to rethink about the ethics of study. In the second part, the author interviewed teachers, students and their parents. On the standing point of the object's view, this dissertation demonstrates the conditions of learning and social status and self-reflection of the students in a rural weak middle school. In the third part, the dissertation narrates QIN Chunyun's family life and her study life in L middle school and her inner world. It reveals the unfairness in weak schools, and how the " disadvantage psychology " becomes more serious while some she studies in the rural weak middle school. In the fourth part, the dissertation discusses the relations between the students in a rural weak middle school and education equity. Rural weak middle school has bad influence on students because of its poor equipment, poor study ambience of students, poor qualities of teachers, and discrimination of the society. The rural weak middle school has become a " special factory " to produce disadvantaged groups.