Research On The Reading Environment Of Left-Behind Children In Chongqing

The left-behind children can’t live together with their parents, who need to flow to other areas for life. The left-behind children stay in rural domicile themselves, which will seriously affect the reading environment of the left-behind children, especially the home reading environment.In this paper, the physical and spiritual factors of the family, school and social are analyzed. The physical reading environment mainly includes reading material, reading place and reading time, in addition, the spiritual reading environment contains the reading habits of parents or teachers, the attitude of the left-behind children’s reading and reading activities. Questionnaires, interview tables and observation tables are designed to comprehend the current status of the reading environment of left-behind children in Chongqing.There are some differences in reading environment between the left-behind children and non-left-behind children, in particular, the home reading environment. Responsibility of guardianship will be replaced when parents go to cities to work, which leads to the reading environment of left-behind children in significantly worse than that of non-left-behind children. The school reading environment of the left-behind children and non-left-behind children is very poor, and the social reading environment is almost blank. Based on these findings, measures are proposed to improve the reading environment of left-behind children, from the three perspectives of the family, school, social.87 tabs,65 refs...