Education system curriculum
According to the relevant provisions of the Compulsory Education Law promulgated by the government of China, primary education must be popularized throughout the country. All children over the age of six must receive education at school. The period of primary education is six years, and it is generally a full-time ordinary primary school. Courses offered include: ideology and morality, Chinese, mathematics, nature, history, geography, art, music, physical education and so on.
In 2002, there were 1 1. 1.8 million kindergartens in China, with 20,360,200 children (including preschool) and 659,300 kindergarten directors and teachers. There are 456,900 primary schools in China with students1.21.564,38+0.000. The enrollment rate of primary school-age children reached 98.58%, of which 98.53% were girls.
development trends
The development trend of primary education in the world is mainly:
1. Pay more and more attention to the teaching of basic knowledge and improve students' basic academic ability.
2. Adapt to the child's physiological precocity and advance the school age. For example, many countries include the senior classes of early childhood education in the scope of primary education, or allow 5-year-old children to enter school in advance. In addition, a new type of middle school has been established for 3-4 years' education from the end of childhood to the early youth.
3. Gradually reduce the class establishment and increase the number of teachers, which requires higher and higher education level of teachers.
4. The forms and methods of teaching are becoming more and more flexible, paying attention to both unified teaching requirements and individual teaching; Special education has attracted more and more attention.