教育质量:挪威可以学习中国吗?

Will Norway Learn from China to Improve Education Quality?

在国外人眼里,挪威的生活质量举世之冠,尤其是它出色的经济、慷慨的国家福利以及面向每个人的免费的高等教育。近些年来,挪威表面光鲜的图景开始破碎,特别是教育质量下滑。主要原因在于,二战后挪威的课程传统发生了变化,挪威学习了美国的教育传统。近40年来,挪威教育质量下降,教师的社会地位恶化。政府现行的教育策略是,加强对学术能力较弱的教师的在职培训。这个策略似乎并没有奏效。较好的办法是学习中国,建设一种学习型文化。在中国学习型文化中,父母和祖父母都关心给所爱的孩子以良好的教育,教师职业受到尊重,而这种东亚学习型文化的源头是哲学家孔子。

In foreign people＇s eyes, Norway＇s life quality ranks first in the world, especially its strong economy, generous state welfare, and free higher education accessible to everybody. In recent years, however, cracks start to appear in its seemly perfect image, especially when it comes to education quality. The main reason is that Norway changed its curriculum and learned from American education after WWII. In recent forty years, education quality has been declining and teachers＇ social status has been getting worse. The current educational strategy of the government is to strengthen the training of the teachers of weak academic ability, and yet it seemingly does not work. To address this issue, this paper suggests learning from China to construct a learning culture. In China＇s learning culture, parents and grandparents are all concerned about giving their children good education, and teaching as a profession is respected. This learning culture in East Asia can be traced back to the great Chinese philosopher Confucius.