1. Characteristics of formal education
Formal education is mainly to teach subject knowledge and cultivate students' basic skills, such as language, mathematics and science. It usually takes teachers as the center, pays attention to imparting knowledge and mastering subjects, and pursues students to get good grades through standardized examinations. Formal education emphasizes the teaching of content and the standardization of learning.
2. Characteristics of substantive education
Substantive education pays attention to students' all-round development and personality cultivation. It focuses on cultivating students' thinking ability, innovation ability, social ability and emotional ability. Substantive education emphasizes students' individual differences and diversity, encourages students to develop their potential and interests, and cultivates students' critical thinking and problem-solving ability.
3. Different educational goals
The goal of formal education is to enable students to be competent for their jobs and roles in society by imparting knowledge and developing skills. The goal of substantive education is to cultivate people with all-round development and pay attention to the cultivation of students' personality, values and social responsibility.
4. Different teaching methods
Formal education takes teachers as the center, adopts traditional teaching methods, and pays attention to knowledge infusion and exam-oriented training. While substantive education pays attention to students' active participation and learning, advocates heuristic teaching and cooperative learning, and pays attention to practical and experiential learning activities.
5. Different evaluation methods
The evaluation of formal education mainly focuses on the evaluation of students' test scores and academic ability, emphasizing quantitative and standardized evaluation methods. Physical education pays more attention to the evaluation of students' comprehensive quality and personality development, and tends to adopt diversified evaluation methods, such as project assignments, oral reports and exhibitions.
Summary:
There are obvious differences between formal education and substantive education. Formal education focuses on imparting knowledge and skills, focusing on the cultivation of test scores and subject ability; Entity education pays attention to students' all-round development and personality cultivation, and pays attention to the cultivation of students' thinking ability, innovation ability and social ability.
There are also obvious differences between them in educational objectives, teaching methods and evaluation methods. Substantive education pays more attention to students' individual differences and diversity, cultivating students' creativity and problem-solving ability, and their sense of responsibility and values as members of society.