A Study Of Farmers' Inverstment In Their Children's Higher Education From The Perspective Of Educational Justice

As the "Three Issues of Agriculture" (farmers, the rural areas and agriculture) have been increasingly concerned by the whole nation and society, the educational investment and educational justice of the farmers have become two hot issues. In the background of building a harmonious society, putting the philosophy of scientific development into practice and constructing new socialistic countryside, underprivileged farmers' desire to change the social position of their children by means of higher education is pressing. it is widely believed that knowledge will change one's fate and education will have a life-long influence on personal development.Resorting to normal analysis and empirical methodologies, this thesis attempts to reveal the unfair phenomenon of higher education and probe into the deep-layered cause leading to the unfairness. This paper focuses on the issue of farmers' investment in their children's higher education. Based on a questionnaire survey, a more systematic study on farmers' investment in their children's higher education will be conducted, such as farmers' family economical structure, the act of farmers' investment in the children's higher education, college education cost as well as income in expectation, and criteria for higher education charging.Conclusion is made as follows: first, farmers can not well afford their children's college education, and the unfair phenomenon caused by college cost still exists; second, high investment in farmers childern's higher education and low income from investment are not in accordance with the decisive theory of investment that high cost should be with high income; third, different chances exist of entering the college, choosing their majors and jobs between farmers' children and non-farmers' children. The cause of the unfairness lies in the different income and social status between the city and the countryside. To maximally realize the educational justice in farmers children's higher education, we need to help increase farmers' income in different ways, perfect the system of aiding poor students and the policy of higher education charging, improve the teaching quality and strengthen the guidance of employment after graduation, and constantly improve the investment environment for farmers childern's higher education.