中美小学生教育情况对比分析

A Comparative Analysis of Primary School Education in China and the United States

在当代中国,教育是人民群众最关心、最直接、最现实的问题之一。随着教育发展过程中出现的种种问题,以及与社会和经济发展的协调性矛盾等,教育问题也逐渐成为广泛关注的研究热点。小学教育是义务教育的基础,是孩子们系统教育的启蒙关键期,我国小学教育的情况处于什么水平,在学校和家庭教育中存在哪些问题,有哪些优势和不足,我们通过从学生、家长、老师的不同视角,采用问卷调查、文献调研、教育实践等方式,对中美小学生教育情况进行对比,分析小学教育在文化理念、课业内容、安全教育、品德教育、法律法规、课外辅导等方面的实践差异以及可能的原因,希望能引起广大家长和教育部门有益的思考。

Currently, education has been one of the most concerned and realistic topics for Chinese people. With the emergence of various problems in the process of Education and the contradictions in coordination with social and economic development, education has become the hot research focused intensively. Since the primary-school education is the fundamental initiation stage in the systematic study for children, we should pay more attention on the educational situation and problems and be aware of our advantages and disadvantages both in school and family education realities. We com-pare the school education between China and the United States by questionnaire, literature survey and participation from students, teachers, and parents’ perspectives to analyze the deference between cultural concepts, schoolwork, safety, morality, regulations and instructions education, as well as the possible reasons, which may arouse the children’ parents and education departments much more considerations and thinking.