Suspended Rural Teachers: A Study on the Life Orientation and Mobility Trends of the New Generation of Special-Post Teachers

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Abstract

This study adopted the approach of educational ethnography, through a three-year fieldwork in a rural primary school in eastern Inner Mongolia, and find that It vividly reflects the “complete urbanization” life aspect of contemporary rural young teachers’ livelihood leapfrogging, interpersonal drift and spiritual habitat, and brews their survival form and suspended mentality of “suspending” in both urban and rural circles, which derives the flow trend of this group to concentrate on the city and wait for opportunities.

Author

• Caihong Li, Wuhan University of Technology