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Songdi Wang; Jiexiu Chen; Lu Zhou – European Journal of Education, 2024
The Chinese government has implemented a series of special admission policies in recent years to promote higher education equity. One of the key approaches is the 'Rural Students Quota Plan', which requires elite universities to enrol a certain number of rural students from disadvantaged social and economic backgrounds each year. This study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Youth, Colleges, Emotional Problems
Gao, Xuwen; Liang, Wenquan; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Song, Ran – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023
About 11% of the Chinese population are rural-urban migrants with a rural hukou that severely restricts their children's access to urban schools. As a result, 69 million children are left behind in rural areas. We use two regression-discontinuity designs - based on school enrollment age cutoffs and a 2014 policy change that more severely…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Migrant Children, Migrants, Parent Child Relationship
Liu, Jingwei – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Through multiple educational reforms, China has pursued developing well-rounded learners with solid content knowledge, higher-order thinking skills, and the ability to transfer knowledge to real-world problem spaces. The imbalance of learning resources between urban and rural China, however, has caused disadvantages for learners in rural China to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Rural Youth, Public Schools
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Jie Wang; Yunpeng Wu; Jianfen Wu; Yu Gong; Yali Dong; Li Li; Heyue Fang – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
This study examined the effect of dialogic reading intervention on improving the theory of mind of rural Chinese children. A 12-week-randomized controlled trial design with two intervention groups, i.e. school practice intervention (SPI), parent-involved intervention (PII), and one control group with traditional reading intervention (TRI) that…
Descriptors: Young Children, Rural Youth, Theory of Mind, Parent Participation
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Yu Li; Bo Gao – European Journal of Education, 2024
In the late 1990s, an extensive consolidation of schools in rural China led to the amalgamation of numerous primary and secondary schools into urban schools or their discontinuation. The study aimed to investigate whether China's school consolidation movement has influenced the educational attainment of rural students. The data are sourced from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Consolidated Schools, Educational Change
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Chen, Yuanyuan; Huo, Yongquan – Youth & Society, 2023
This study explored the relationship between social interaction anxiety (SIA) and problematic smartphone use (PSU) among Chinese adolescents. Further, the roles of online basic psychological needs satisfaction (online BPNS), nature connectedness (NC), and related differences between urban and rural adolescents were examined. We recruited 840…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Interpersonal Relationship, Anxiety
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Dong, Feiran – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2020
In this paper, I made a historical and philosophical reflection on the social scientific categorization of "rural children" (nongcun ertong) in contemporary Chinese discourses of educational equality. The empowerment discourse about them as an educationally marginalized group based on scientific inquiry into their problems reflects a new…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Philosophy, Equal Education, Rural Youth
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Clothey, Rebecca; Otkur, Arafat; Morrison, Jeaná – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2018
This paper examines how rural origin combines with ethnicity as a factor in higher education access among one ethnic group, the Uyghur, a Muslim minority who mostly reside in China's northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. As one of China's 55 officially recognized minority groups, many of whom reside in rural areas, Uyghurs make an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Youth, Muslims, Minority Group Students
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Hao, Jun; Hsueh, Yeh – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2018
Unintentional injury has been a leading threat to Chinese children. Children's risk-taking is influenced by their evaluation of risky behavior and related safety knowledge, which also vary considerably by child and family characteristics. In light of the Health Belief Model, the current study (1) proposes and tests a tripartite relation among…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Student Behavior, Risk
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Jiang, Lei; Liao, Mingyue; Ying, Ronghua – Best Evidence in Chinese Education, 2020
Objective: To explore the relationship between loneliness, self-efficacy, and satisfaction with life of Left-behind middle school students in China. Methods: A cluster random sampling method was used to study students from Left-behind middle schools in Binhai County of Jiangsu Province. The loneliness scale, general self-efficacy scale, and…
Descriptors: Correlation, Psychological Patterns, Self Efficacy, Life Satisfaction
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Wang, Weijian – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2019
This article uses a queer lens in an intersectional analysis of students' schooling experiences in rural China. I argue that a queer perspective has been largely neglected and issues related to sexuality have not been carefully investigated in Chinese educational contexts. Drawing on queer theory and an intersectional framework, I re-interpret one…
Descriptors: Rural Youth, Educational Experience, Rural Education, Homosexuality
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Wang, Shutao; Mao, Yaqing – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2018
Using propensity score matching method, this study examined the effect of boarding on campus on left-behind children (LBC)'s sense of school belonging and their academic achievement. The condition of boarding schools was also examined closely in this study. Data were collected from 6,638 students from 74 rural boarding schools in 11 provinces in…
Descriptors: Probability, Academic Achievement, Boarding Schools, Foreign Countries
Zhi-xin, Yang; Yu-qi, Zheng – Online Submission, 2012
The present study is aiming to exploring the behavior status of rural left-behind children in China. In a case-control study, we used Rutter Children's Behavior Questionnaire for teacher to measure behavior status of children in left-behind group and control group. Furthermore, we also compared behavior status of children in different age groups…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Youth, Child Behavior, Behavior Problems
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Ma, Wanhua – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2012
Some researchers in China believe that the rural poor's earlier disadvantaged education experiences stopped them to get into the leading research universities. In my research, I find equal access to leading research universities relates with many issues, the gross enrollment rate disparity among provinces, the change of enrollment policies, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Universities, Rural Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
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Helwig, Charles C.; Yang, Shaogang; Tan, Dingliang; Liu, Chunqiong; Shao, Tiffany – Child Development, 2011
This research applied social domain theory to illuminate reasoning about the perceived legitimacy and limits of group decision making (majority rule) among adolescents from urban and rural China (N = 160). Study 1 revealed that adolescents from both urban and rural China judged group decision making as acceptable for both social conventional and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Decision Making, Evaluative Thinking, Logical Thinking
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