Children are the hope of a nation, and family education is the elementary education for children. Many serious problems have appeared in our education system in recent years. Almost everyone has realized the importance of solving these problems and many people have presented a lot of valuable suggestions. There are many types of family education in the world and each of them shows distinctive features and is closely responsive to its culture. And American family education is the most famous one among them. There are great differences in the concepts of education, methods of education and results of education between American family education and Chinese family education. This paper will analyze those differences from the three aspects, and will mainly analyze of the differences on cultivating children’s independence, interests, creativity, psychological health, fame and the relationship with their parents between the two kinds of family education. The author hopes to find a satisfied family education method through comparing the differences between American family education and Chinese family education. At the same time, the author hopes this paper can provide some helpful suggestions for family education.
Key Words
Family education; independence; interest; differences
Abstract.................................................................I
Key Words................................................................I
摘要.....................................................................II
关键词...................................................................II
Introduction.............................................................1
I. A Brief Introduction about Two Concepts of Family Education..........2
A. American Family Education.............................................2
B. Chinese Family Education..............................................2
II. Two Different Kinds of Ways of Family Education......................3
A. Differences in the Cultivation of Children’s Independence.........3
1. The Cultivation of Children’s Independence in America...........3
2. The Cultivation of Children’s Independence in China.............5
B. Differences in the Cultivation of Children’s Interests............7
C. Differences in the Cultivation of Children’s Creativity...........9
D. Differences in the Cultivation of Children’s Psychological Health.9
E. Differences in the Cultivation of Children’s Fame.................10
F. Differences in the Cultivation of Relationship with Parents........11
III. The Different Results of the Two Kinds of Family Education..........12
Conclusion...............................................................14
Acknowledgements.........................................................15
Bibliography.............................................................16
