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On the differences between Chinese and foreign education

Through the comparison of Chinese and foreign education, this paper analyzes the differences between Chinese and foreign education from four aspects: classroom discipline, classroom teaching form, examination system and teacher's role orientation.

Keywords: Chinese and foreign education; Educational differences

I saw this news on the Internet: Beijing Agricultural Exhibition Hall, the opening ceremony of the third Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Youth Science Festival. The leaders spoke enthusiastically on the rostrum, but the following situation was completely different: China students stood in a neat row, buried their heads in the sun and listened carefully; Students from other APEC countries chat in groups of three or five, and some even sit on the floor.

An overseas student from China said: It is a habit that we have developed since childhood to observe assembly discipline in assembly occasions. ? A student from New Zealand said: The Youth Science Festival is originally an exchange activity, so people can't help talking, and students' feelings should be considered. Since the speech is very long, you should give us a seat. In our country, it is rare to give such a long speech unless it is a special lecture. ?

Another story is also very thorough: a school has such a question: between two and three in the afternoon, when will the hour hand and the minute hand meet? The China children present immediately calculated the pen column, while the American children in the same class easily dialed their watches and quickly reached a conclusion. This shows that there is a considerable gap between China children and foreign children in practical ability. What killed their imagination and creativity? Professor Yang Zhenning once said: This is mainly a matter of educational concept, and there is something wrong with the educational system. ?

These two examples reflect the collision between thoughts and thinking, and the difference between China education and foreign education. This article tells from the following aspects:

First, classroom discipline.

Classroom discipline is a rule that must be observed in the classroom and a guarantee for the smooth progress of teaching activities. Indeed, without certain discipline, it is impossible to conduct classroom teaching. Imagine if someone is coming and going in class, it will be a mess. What deserves our reflection is how to treat classroom discipline. What kind of classroom discipline is good and what kind is not. A teacher once vividly compared a class with good classroom discipline: when I was in class, I could hear a needle fall to the ground? . Although this statement is somewhat exaggerated, it is enough to prove that the classroom is quite quiet. If the teacher doesn't lecture, there will be no other sound. Compared with the education in China, the United States and Japan, the education in China attaches importance to commonness and ignores the cultivation of individuality. In China, classroom discipline is orderly and quiet. Sit up straight in class, put your hands flat on the desk, keep your eyes on the teacher, behave appropriately, and students' behavior is strictly controlled. The task of students is to listen and take notes. Teachers in China think this is good classroom discipline. Uniformity can be seen everywhere in teaching, such as one voice answering questions and giving standard answers. Some teachers also ask students to do a composition test before the exam in order to unify their thinking. Even if students occasionally have original opinions, teachers often take textbooks as the judging standard, so students can only follow the rules and dare not cross the line. Indeed, this boring and rigid teaching atmosphere deprives students of the opportunity to express themselves freely and inhibits their internal creative motivation.

Compared with China, American and Japanese students have relaxed classroom discipline and abundant spare time. American classroom discipline can even be used? What a mess. To describe. Most of their primary and middle school students spend their spare time in relatively relaxed and freely chosen recreational activities. In this relaxed and free educational atmosphere, students dare to think, speak and do, their personalities develop freely, their talents are fully displayed and their creativity is cultivated. In recent years, Japan has set the development direction of education as: let children have it? Survivability? And then what? Relaxed and comfortable? . In order to achieve this goal, Japanese schools pay attention to developing loose and affluent educational activities in a loose and affluent educational environment, and at the same time cultivate students' viability. Primary and middle school students in China spend their time in various assignments designed by teachers and parents, whether in class or after class. It is this kind of care that makes children lose their individuality, limit their free space, block their free dreams and inhibit their imagination and innovation.

Second, the form of classroom teaching

In China, the class is a collective, and the group is a unit, which is fixed. Moreover, centralized and unified teaching has limited time, and the whole form is too monotonous and boring. It may be possible for middle schools, but it is not suitable for primary schools. The characteristics of children's innocence, liveliness and exuberance are somewhat suppressed by this cold classroom organization. In class, the classroom discipline is orderly and quiet as a court. Students should sit up straight, put their hands flat, look directly at each other, and strictly control their words and deeds. An American teacher once commented on China Kindergarten: Too strict management makes Oriental Kindergarten look more like a military camp? So much emphasis is placed on discipline and code of conduct that children's creativity is destroyed. ? In foreign countries, classes are collective, but each group is not fixed, which can change frequently with different teaching contents, and it is not necessarily centralized and unified teaching, but completes classroom tasks in an orderly manner. This teaching form is vivid, interesting, artistic and diverse, which can arouse students' enthusiasm and make them participate in classroom teaching. Moreover, practical courses in foreign classrooms are also a remarkable feature. For example, cooking class, the classroom is located in the kitchen; The auto repair course is held next to the car, and there are few courses that talk about book theory without practice. This is just the opposite of classroom organization in China. First, there are theoretical classes in the classroom, but there are few practical classes. Foreign classroom education institutions are flexible and innovative, pay attention to the cultivation of individuality, are good at combining classroom education with practical creation, tap children's creativity, and cultivate students' sense of collective honor and team spirit invisibly.

Third, the examination system

China is the home of examinations in the world and the birthplace of examination system. In ancient China, the examination system, represented by the imperial examination system, played an active role in selecting, using and educating talents. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, China's examination system, especially the imperial examination system, has gradually become rigid, which has become a shackle that imprisons education and binds talents. The evaluation standard of examination is actually determined by the concept of education. That is, what kind of teaching content should be emphasized and what kind of ability should be cultivated determines what kind of evaluation criteria we adopt to measure it. In foreign countries, exams are only a test tool for learning effect. In China, the examination is mainly used as a screening tool, and failing the admission line means being eliminated by the current education system. Chinese and foreign students need to take all kinds of exams, but the methods are different. Most foreign school exams adopt the scoring system, while our country's school exams are used to the hundred-point system, which is considered to be highly differentiated, and the difference of one point can be clearly seen. The main purpose of students' examination is to enter a higher school and get employment. In foreign countries, the purpose of examination is to encourage innovative thinking. There is no standard answer except math. As long as you give a reasonable explanation and get a reasonable reason for an answer, you can get a high score even if the answer is incorrect or imperfect. Assessing students' ability and innovation level is the only purpose of foreign education. For example, foreign essay questions are generally not sure about their own lives, because children's experiences are very simple, and writing such articles will only make students? Fabricate facts? . Topics are generally informative and can arouse students' interest in this field. These topics fully reflect the knowledge and interest of the composition, and can also arouse children's thirst for knowledge. However, the composition questions assigned by domestic teachers are all about their own lives, and students are also trained to describe the movements, demeanor and language of the characters. Students feel sad and uninterested as soon as they write their compositions.

As can be seen from the above examples, China's education is still based on exam-oriented education, paying attention to coping with exams, taking exam scores as a means, selecting a few people from the majority as the sole purpose, and unilaterally pursuing further education. Foreign education, on the other hand, attaches importance to basic education aimed at promoting students' physical and mental development, improving national ideological and moral, scientific culture, labor technology and physical and mental quality, focusing on ability training and quality education, and attaching importance to applying what they have learned to their future life, study and work. Because of this difference, there are great differences in the ability of self-taught students: foreign students' social adaptability and practical ability are far stronger than their peers in China, and China students' test scores and memory ability are far higher than those of foreign students.

Fourth, the teacher? Role positioning?

What role do teachers always play in classroom teaching in China? Yan? Image? Poor teaching, lazy teachers? The stricter the teacher is, the more he can control the students, and the more prestige he will have, so that the students can obey their own orders and successfully complete the teaching content. There is even a phenomenon that students can hide as far as they can when they see teachers and mice. Isn't this the teacher's sorrow? In the eyes of students, the teacher is an absolute authority, and there is almost no room for discussion. Obedience is the standard of good students, and students' autonomy and independence are ruthlessly obliterated. Giving and receiving education is widely adopted in China, which basically takes book knowledge as the content, classroom teaching as the position and teacher activities as the center, and teaches book knowledge to students through teachers' lectures and students' listening. From family to school, from school to family, this traditional giving and receiving education has really cultivated children's obedient habits and played a certain role in inheriting fine traditions, mastering knowledge and standardizing behavior. Foreign teachers play three roles in class. One is? A tour guide? Teachers rarely teach knowledge by the book, but ask students questions and provide the main information for students to complete themselves. And second? Instructor? Guide, remind and correct students at any time in study and practice, so that students can not deviate from the established learning goals and tasks in study and practice, and can also consciously coordinate the development of moral, intellectual, physical and operational abilities; Three is? Friends? In classroom teaching, teachers and students are always equal. Teachers and students can discuss problems or disputes with each other and keep their own opinions. Teachers respect students and safeguard their personality and dignity. There are few cases of corporal punishment and scolding students. Foreign teachers and students are very harmonious, even a little loose, and there are few restrictions on students. In contrast, the teacher-student relationship in China is rather dull, rigid and tense. ?

Looking at the differences between Chinese and foreign education, we should have a clearer understanding of China's education. There are indeed many unsatisfactory places in our education. ? How to combine the advantages of Chinese and foreign education to create an educational system and form that can better meet the needs of today's world development? This is a problem that we should seriously consider. Knowledge economy depends on innovation, but? Innovation depends on talents, especially young talents? . How to ignite the fire of wisdom hidden in young people's minds and make it start a prairie fire on the land of China and get rich one by one? Dreams, creative thinking, inventions? How to innovate China's education in combination with reality is worthy of our deep thinking.

Author: School of Life Sciences, Shaoxing University of Arts and Sciences

About the author: Zhang Jialing (1987-), female, Han nationality, born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, is a 2005 undergraduate of School of Life Sciences, Shaoxing University, majoring in science education.

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