Investigate the Motive and Learning Needs of Those Studying at the Charitable Classrooms in Binh Duong Province, Viet Nam

Abstract

A country only attains civilization when its social security is taken care of and implemented thoroughly. Accordingly, children are the primary concern of the world and of humanity. When the political and social situation becomes more complex and turbulent, Islamic State (IS) insurgents have been training, poisoning and using children as a tool for their unethical purpose, education becomes more and more important and urgent to help people away from misleading behavior and thinking, especially education of children and disadvantaged people. At present, there are many charities, social activists, educational policy makers, organizations, businesses and unions interested in this issue. In addition, mobilizing and recommending social protection policies for migrants, educational policy for poor students has become a serious problem for our society in general and Binh Duong province in particular. Accordingly, listening to those viewpoints so as to know their demands is an important factor contributing to solving these issues. Hence, we decided to investigate the motive and the learning needs of children and adults at charitable classrooms. This paper takes 544 students' surveys at the representative samples in the areas of developing industrial parks and immigration workers such as Di An, Thuan An Town, and Thu Dau Mot City, studying at charitable classrooms organized and managed by Binh Duong Government. It is to study the motive and learning needs, especially to clarify the view that these learners come to class for gift receiving from charities. The result of "receiving gifts" occupied 1.5%; the desire of going to school, attending a college, and studying at better school was high. It accounted for 65.1%, 83.3%, 84.6% respectively. The children and adults concerned with English (74.8%), whereas the life skills category was rather low (7.5%).