ABSTRACT
This chapter first reviews the extant literature on rural migrant workers’ class consciousness formation in urban China and social theories on class consciousness construction in multiple contexts with an emphasis on the influence of schooling. This chapter also explains why and how this book applies the class perspective and Freirean framework to explore the class consciousness construction in childhood and the influence of the schooling process in shaping rural migrant children’s consciousness development. Finally, this chapter introduces the current study with research questions, research methods, and the structure of this book.
