Study On Problem Of Boarding School In Rural Area In China

Rural boarding school is a special school model, which can adapt the characteristics of the rural population living dispersed, solve the difficulties of attending school over long distances and ensure the rural school-age children and adolescents completing compulsory education. The government took the lead in setting up boarding school in minority areas about early 1950s. Since the middle and late 1990s, boarding school has been all over the elementary and secondary schools in rural areas. Now, boarding school has been playing the role of rural compulsory education. In comparison, the administration of boarding school lagging behind its expansion of the scale, however, institutional design about rural boarding school did not synchronize with the boarding rate increasing gradually. In fact, most of our rural boarding schools are doing the same thing. At present, there are much more problems in rural boarding school, such as, the fundamental guarantee system was not perfect; the conditions of running schools were simple and crude; the personnel allocation is simplification; student daily life and learning combined stiffly. Being lack of standardization on school internal management, together with the influence of the exam-oriented education thought, the rural boarding school deprived students' spare time by extending learning time limitlessly, thus the integrity as student's daily life and the normal development of body and mind are threatened, all these will restrict advantages of boarding school education. In order to consolidate our achievements of popularization of compulsory education in rural areas, it's very important for us to strengthen the construction of rural boarding school. Based on the former study and investigation on 30 rural boarding schools, which came from 13 counties in Hubei, Jiangxi, Gansu, Guangdong and Guangxi province, this paper did a comprehensive and in-depth analysis about theoretical basis background, outcome, problems and causes which regard to rural boarding school. And then, combined with the actual rural areas in China, this article proposed many countermeasures to strengthen the construction of boarding school in rural areas.According to the above logic thinking, this paper is divided into seven parts to discuss:The first chapter is an introduction, which mainly included the theme, research objectives and significance of the paper. In addition, this chapter also presented research status of rural boarding school, defined related concepts, selected research methods and determined research ideas.The second part borrowed the socialization theories, education scale economy theory and public goods theory to explain educational function, economical function and public product attributes of rural boarding school, so as to provide theoretical guidance for its developing healthily. The third chapter analyzed policy driving force and anticipated goals of rural boarding school in different historic periods by reviewed its history. This part showed that rural boarding school has been developing along with our country's economic and social development, so, there were different policy goals in different historic periods.The fourth chapter mainly analyzed the basic characteristics of rural boarding school and its development tendency. All these were based on synthesizing questionnaires and interview materials, which details involved scale, regional distribution characteristics,Characteristics of students source, teachers living environment,the school cost structure, facilities and its management situation.Chpater 5 summarized the achievements of rural boarding school's construction and analyzed the mainly existing problems in-depth. Rural boarding school adapted to the special case of China's rural areas, specially to remote and poor areas. Although rural boarding school has made some achievements, there also exist many drawbacks. Therefore, summarized the achievements and problems of rural boarding school would contribute to its construction and narrow the gap between rural ares and cities.Chpater 6 deeply and systematically analyzed the profound reasons behind the current problems of rural boarding school. The low level development of rural economy, the incorrect school idea, the local system of finance expenditure and administration of compulsory education and the not perfect operation mechanism are root cause which impeded rural boarding school to develop healthily.Chapter 7 suggested some countermeasures to solve the present problems.we must build the cost-sharing mechanism among governments at all levels to ensure the funding sources of rural boarding school, Set the standards of internal operation mechanism to guarantee the overall function of rural boarding school, improve the teaching quality to meet demand of high quality education in rural areas. All of these are strong measures to ensure rural boarding school developing sustainably.