Neglected Part of Education Sustainability: Social Work Intervention on the Quality of Extracurricular Life of Migrant Workers’ Children

Huiyuan Qiang, Lin Liu and Fengzhi Ma
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Huiyuan Qiang: School of Marxism, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 211106, China
Lin Liu: School of Marxism, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 211106, China
Fengzhi Ma: Department of Sociology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 5, 1-14

Abstract: The extracurricular life and education of migrant children are significant to the formation of personality and values, but it has been ignored for a long time. The aim of this study is to obtain evidence supporting the theoretical argument that social work intervention in extracurricular education can have a positive impact on migrant children’s learning ability, social adaptability, personality, and interest shaping. From the perspective of practice, including participatory observation and case study method, this paper analyzes the situation of 71 migrant children in order to improve their extracurricular life quality by social work intervention. In the short term, project members have generally developed good study habits. In the long term, the academic performance is generally excellent, which is beneficial to the development of school teaching tasks. The project has an obvious beneficial impact on the academic learning ability and mental health of migrant workers’ children, especially the ability of social adaptation and the shaping of personality interests. The project helps to strengthen the sustainability of migrant children’s education.

Keywords: social work; extracurricular life; migrant workers; children; sustainability of education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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