Comparison between Chinese and American Family Education 中美家庭教育对比.docVIP

Comparison between Chinese and American Family Education Abstract Family education is related to a persons life. Nowadays, social development needs high qualified talents and good family education is the key point to the high qualified talents. Because of the different social systems, culture backgrounds, education aims and so on, family education for the children are different in many aspects between China and America. This article will compare Chinese with American families in differences in educational aims, content and teaching method, whats more, analyze some reasons for these differences. Key words: children, parents, family education，Chinese ,American 1. Introduction Geert Hofstede, a master engaging in cultural studies, defines the word culture as collective mental programming possessed by people in the same environment. This program differs since people have different ways of thinking which derive from diverse educational background and work. From this, the significance of education in cultural differences can be seen. In additions, children are the hope of nation and family education is the earliest lesson children took. So it’s important to compare our family education with others and develop it. 2. Main different of family education First, there exists great difference in educational conception and purpose between Chinese and American families. Chinese parents produce a great impact on children’s future. They often design a future for children, no matter they like it or not. The largest parental expectation to children is that they work hard and try to be promising. And parents would like to spare their no efforts to provide children with a more favorable growing environment——for they believe that everything theyve done deserves if children get a better future. And during this process of giving, good marks are gradually considered as the only mission and goal on the path of development. At the same time, they ignore their children’s extraordinary abi