Research on the Cultivation of Rural Left-behind Children's Cultural Competence in China

The problems of left-behind children relate to many aspects including education, culture, health, psychology and law, among which the cultural competence of left-behind children has an important affect on their socialization, which effects the accomplishment and social state of them when they grow up. This paper investigated the status of left-behind children’s cultural competence, and analyzed the factors leading low cultural competence of left-behind children from the perspectives of family’s cultural capital and education equity, and proposed corresponding measures to cultivate the cultural competence of left-behind children, including constructing the idea of educational equity to eliminate education discrimination by improving the cultural capital of families for left-behind children.