The Research On City Migrant Laborers’ Children’s School Adaptation

In recent years, with the increase of the number of migrant laborers’ children, the problem of their education has also aroused public attention. Although the country has promulgated a series of laws and regulations to protect the migrant laborers’ children’s rights to education, the situation of children’s adaptation in school has become a new research perspective. This research mainly uses the self-made questionnaire to make a survey about the situation of migrant laborers’ children’s school adaptation and compare the differences of different demographic variables in school adaptation. By investigating the ordinary public school students’ adaptation situation, this research means to know the actual situation of migrant laborers’ children’s school adaptation and discusses the three factors that influence migrant laborers’ children’s school adaptation from the individual factors, family environment and school environment. According to these findings, this research puts forward some education suggestions.The preliminary findings of this research are as follows:1. This research makes migrant laborers’ children’s school adaptation questionnaire consists of academic adaptation, peer relationship, the relationship between teachers and students, and school attitudes and school activities adaptation. The self-made questionnaire has good reliability and validity, and satisfies the basic demands of questionnaire compiled. So this questionnaire can be used as a measurement tool for migrant laborers’ children’s school adaptation.2. The situation of migrant laborers’ children’s school adaptation is basically satisfying, but students’ school adaptation bad than other four aspects of adaptation.3. Migrant laborers’ children’s school adaptation has significant differences on variables such as gender, grade, academic performance, ranking, and the only-child or not. Specifically:(1) the score of girls in school adaptation and each dimension are higher than boys;(2) the school adaptation scores of students from the second grade is significantly higher than the first, third grade students’. The scores of students form the second grade on the relationship between teachers and students as well as the activity scores are significantly higher than that of the first, third grade students. The scores of the third grade students’ on school attitude dimension are significantly lower than the first and second grade students;(3)The scores of top students in school adaptation and five dimensions including academic adaptation, peer relationship, the relationship between teachers and students, and school attitudes and school activities adaptation are significantly higher than medium and the bottom students’.(4) The scores of non-only-child students in academic adaptation and the relationship between teachers and students are significantly lower than the only-child students.4. Compared with public school students, the scores of migrant laborers’ children on school adaptation and on each dimension are lower than theirs, but the situation of both public students and migrant laborers’ children from the third grades is not ideal.5. By exploring the influencing factors of migrant laborers’ children’s school adaptation, this research finds that students’ individual character plays a main role and it can explain the variation rate of 51.2% of students’ adaptation. Followed by the school environment on the influence of migrant laborers’ children’s school adaptation, it can explain the variation rate of 5.9% of students’ adaptation. Students’ family environment atmosphere of migrant laborers’ children can only explain 0.7% of the students’ school adaptation.In spite of this, the school still can be able to play a role in promoting the migrant laborers’ children’s school adaptation. The school should guide their students to adjust their attitudes, pay more attention to students’ development in many aspects, form a good relationship between teachers and students and make a warm and harmonious atmosphere to help students better adapt school.