In China, there are great issues that relate to education. These many problems have been shown in movies, documentaries and sometimes if serious enough put on the news. Out all the issues, the obvious problems show clearly. They are child labour, rural education, and undertrained teachers and that most high schools are exam centred. Child labour is when the children of a family have to work in areas where it is unsuitable for their age. They have to do this in order to earn for their family. The undertrained teachers are a problem found throughout Cultural China. Students are not taught properly and don’t learn as much as they should’ve in the city. The last issue listed is that high schools are exam based. The high schools are just a ground where you prepare for exams for three years.
The first issue is about undertrained teachers which still occurs today. In the film, this issue was reflected when Ms Wei, the teacher, gets her first job at a rural primary school. The reason why it interests me personally is because how the school was willing to hire a person that was only at the age of thirteen. Undertrained teachers occurs because in China, there is no sort of registration to be a teacher. The employers or the principals simply assumed that the teachers were trained. But in many cases, teachers did not receive any pre-service preparation. But now, the issue is not as serious as it was before. The government of China has taken notice of the issue. As a result, the government has been trying to think of solutions to this major problem. A possible way to improve this situation is to fund the poor teachers with programs to help them. Once they pass the stage of being able to teach properly, they are given permission to teach at sch...
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...Australian education system is better than the China education system. Comparing every factor that China is better at and is worse at and the factors remain that Australia has more positives than negatives. But in China, it is better to be in the first-word areas than to be in third-world areas. However, this could be fixed if more jobs and higher wages were paid and given to employees.
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In “Père du Halde: The Chinese Educational System”, (Document 3), Pere du Halde talks about the Chinese Education system. In the document, he says, “That boys should not learn is an improper thing; for if they do not learn in youth, what will they do when old?” This shows that the educational system in China was very hard and strict and the students learned a lot. Since the boys that were going to school were one day going to be men, those men were going to have to make many decisions for China. In order to make sure China was on the right path to great rulers and government workers, the schooling system was very prestigious and difficult. This is an example that China needed a good educational system so they would have strong, future rulers. In my opinion, the Chinese learning system was hard because everyone wanted to have great leaders and they knew that the students who were going to school were going to be future leaders. As it says in “Matteo Ricci: On Chinese Government”, (Document 5), “It may be said in praise of the Chinese that ordinarily they would prefer to die an honorable death rather than swear allegiance to a usurping monarch.” This is an example that the people of China wanted a strong ruler/rulers and would rather die than be ruled by a weak leader. The statement shows that all of China, not just government officers,...
As the evidence shows that, "The Chinese value education as a stepping stone to success, and children - especially only children - are under a lot of pressure to excel in school. There is also an unspoken code of conformity, and there is a lot of pressure to fit in, for to be singled out is the penultimate in humiliation, causing students to 'lose face' in front of their peers. In addition to academics, parents also try and enroll their children in a wide variety of after-school activities to enhance their overall development."("History of Chinese Education, Five Necessities of Chinese Culture", Paragraph 2) This evidence shows not only teachers but also parents or students from China are still keeping the traditional mind to study. Thousands years ago in ancient China, schools are competitive, students needs to have high quality of studying and good relations with the school as well. Even they might feel stressful on learning when they are in elementary school. Nowadays, parents still think their kid must have the best education, more strong points. Childrens are learning lots of skills and knowledge when they are extremely young. In Canada, it's totally different. Students like team-work, they don't have bias on any schools. They study breezily without any pressure. So, more traditional makes Chinese education different from Canadian
...ation, Chinese students were able to learn about the higher living standard and encountered a range of ideas that might become profoundly subversive influences.
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In this paper, it will be looking at the culture and education practices of Finland, Canada, and China. Education varies from country to country as well as does one's culture, lifestyle of the people who live there. In doing so will review their culture and the role of their education policies that are used to motivate schools and teachers to improve student learning along with how their culture plays into learning. Furthermore, children should be taught with respect to their culture. However, we can also learn from one another. In addition, we have similar and different educational practices from one another. Such as when it comes to the Finnish, Canadians, to the Chinese as, we all learn in different environments because of our culture. Furthermore, and most importantly, thus educational practices vary from culture to culture. For instance, these counties are considered some of the best when it comes to education, Finland, Canada, China and it is because of their educational practices along with their culture government.
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