Research on the Differentiation of Accompanied Study in Rural Family from the Perspective of Educational Competition
The wave of accompanied study that has emerged in the context of rural economic differentiation can be analyzed from the perspective of educational competition.Accompanied study is a typical educational competitive behavior characterized by parental energy investment in the form of parent-child relationship cultivation.Based on field research of 27 family cases,this study found that the practice of accompanied study varies because of different family conditions.For women in upper-class families,it manifests as high-quality companionship and cultivation of children's subjectivity,while in middle-class families,it manifests as low-quality companionship and insufficient intrinsic motivation in children.The practice of elderly relatives accompanied study in left-behind families at the lower stratum is characterized by the absence of familial companionship and developmental challenges for children.The differentiation of accompanied study practices in rural families at county level further exacerbates the widening gap in the effectiveness of family educational competition,with organized participation in children's academic studies,social risk mitigation,and the cultivation of individual subjectivity as pathways.This trend propels the educational differentiation of rural children educational access and farmer differentiation,and the transition of the driving force of educational inequality in China from institutional to hierarchical levels.