Rural Boarding Middle School Left-behind Children Education Problem And School-based Strategy Research

Different from day pupils, boarders at schools are offered accommodation, which means that the school management is responsible for both their study and daily life. The establishment of boarding schools in rural areas is a rational choice to cope with the education of the left-behind children in rural areas, which can effectively solve a series of problems caused by the absence of parents, the weakening of family education environment and the absence of monitoring functions. It can improve the education quality of the rural areas and promote the development of the education cause in rural areas.The left-behind children always remains a prominent problem in the western part of China. However, it is also serious in Jiangsu province, located in the eastern coastal area. Although Jiangsu province is playing a leading role in social and economic development of the country, it fails to balance the development of the northern and southern part as well as the urban and rural areas, which leads to the long history and large scale of the rural labor output. In this way, the left-behind children problem becomes extremely severe. With the number of the left-behind children in the northern part of Jiangsu increasing year by year, the establisement of boarding schools and the proper management of education has caught great attention. The rural schools in the northern part of Jiangsu province have attached great importance to the care of the left-behind children. But how about the living conditions of those left-behind children in the boarding schools? What kind of influence will the boarding schools exert on the development of the left-behind children? How will the curriculum, the teaching activities and the school management system play the dual functions of supervision and education? These problems have not been explored with in-depth investigation and research. In this thesis, questionnaires and interviews are conducted on the left-behind children in rural boarding schools in Huai’an. Advice is provided in terms of education management and school development so as to create a healthy environment for the growth of the left-behind children.The thesis consists of six parts. The first part is the introduction, which includes an overview of the background, the significance of the study, the literature review, the research ideas and methods, the innovation in this study and the definition of some key terms. The second part illustrates the positive and negative functions of education in rural boarding schools. The third part discusses the theoretical framework of this study: education fairness theory, the theroy of multi-factored education, the theory of school-based management and the theory of life education. The fourth part investigates the present situation of the left-behind children based on some data from the perpectives of school management system, educational content, education subjects and extracurricular activity. The fifth part analyzes the reasons that lead to the problem of left-behind children education in rural boarding schools. And in the last part, the author puts forward the instructive strategy in left-behind children education from the aspects of educational concept, management system, curriculum instruction, quality of teachers, mental health education and family education.