Rural Community Education Practice for Returning Urban Middle Class: A Case Study of Mingguang Village

Zhang Chuanyue

China's Education: Research & Review ›› 2021, Vol. 25 ›› Issue (1) : 88-124.

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China's Education: Research & Review ›› 2021, Vol. 25 ›› Issue (1) : 88-124.

Rural Community Education Practice for Returning Urban Middle Class: A Case Study of Mingguang Village

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A new situation has emerged in the relationship between city and the countryside. The countryside has become a yearning for urban people who treat returning to hometown as a kind of fashion. This paper takes Mingguang village in C City of Sichuan Province as a case of rural community education study,and draws on anthropological field survey methods, and comprehensively uses interviews, ethnography,narrative research and other methods to observe and record the changes that have occurred since the construction of a new village from 2015 to 2017. This paper introduces the field of community life from a spatial perspective,discusses what happens in this community,and introduces formal and informal education activities separately. The aim of this research is to return to social life itself to re-understand the nature of community education,explore how the community living environment stimulates the internal learning motivation of various subjects. It is found that the development of village publicity promotes community integration,the physical public space of the village and the activities it carries greatly enrich the daily life of the original village,and the open public space of the multi-culture provides a huge space and opportunity for the mutual integration of the daily life of the new and old villagers. Besides,community education is an important method to encourage residents to participate in community life,promote community identity and build a community.

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rural community / community education / public life / qualitative study

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Zhang Chuanyue. Rural Community Education Practice for Returning Urban Middle Class: A Case Study of Mingguang Village[J]. China's Education: Research & Review, 2021, 25(1): 88-124
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