题目（英文） Comparison between the Educational System in China and the West from the perspective of Cross-cultural Communication
题目（中文） 以跨文化视角评析中西教育体系
Abstract
Cross-cultural communication study is a complexity project； It involves in interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary study. The research subject is numerous, the research scope is wide, and the research method is diverse. In recent years, with the degree of society opening deepened and the field of opening extended constantly in China, the development of cross-cultural communication is approaching its high level which it has never reached before. More and more people are engaged in cross-cultural communication activities such as the exchange in the domains of economy, politics, education, sports, trade and so on. The success of these exchange activities largely depends on the effective cross-cultural communication. As one of the most important forms of cross-cultural communication, the international educational culture exchange plays a key role, such as studying abroad, overseas academic exchange communication, overseas visiting scholar program and so on. These activities prove that cross-cultural communication will naturally have an impact on the culture of a country, and thus also will stimulate a country to reform and improve its education system.
This thesis attempts to compare the difference and the common practice of education system between China and West regarding education method，education content, education value, teaching mechanism and the talent identification in order to work out a better way to improve and perfect Chinese education system. This article considers that the features of Chinese and Western education system are subject to the education value of each country. However, the education value is decided by each country’s educational culture, and the education culture is finally based on the historical culture in that country. So, the culture of different country reflects the education system with different characteristics. For this reason, cross-cultural communication can make countries with different cultural backgrounds get to know and learn from each other. It will be definitely helpful to the innovation of education system by analyzing the different education value and teaching mechanism and so forth between Chinese and Western educational system. By this way, people can find a better way to improve their perspective education systems scientifically.
Key words: Cross-cultural communication; education system; education culture; education value; comparison method.
Contents
Abstract I
Contents I
Introduction 1
1. Definitions of Cross-Cultural communication 2
1.1 What is the notion of culture? 2
1.2 What is the notion of communication? 2
1.3. What is the notion of Cross-cultural Communication? 3
2. Definition of education system. 4
3.Educational culture determines educational system through influencing educational value. 5
3.1 Educational culture is crucial to the educational value 5
3.2 The distinction of Chinese and Western educational culture. 5
3.2.1 The social departmentalism education has an impact on Chinese educational culture deeply. 5
3.2.2 The new individualism education exists in west. 5
3.3 Educational culture is the internal foundation to determine the education system. 6
4. Chinese educational system differs in various ways from western educational system. 8
4.1 Comparison of the educational value between China and West. 8
4.1.1Chinese educational value. 8
4.1.2 Western educational value .8
4.2 The distinction of education method between China and West. 9
4.2.1 Chinese considers “control” as the main way of education. 9
4.2.2 Western considers “freedom” as the main way of education. 9
4.3. The distinct of educational content between China and West. 9
4.3.1 The content of Chinese teaching. 9
4.3.2 The content of western teaching. 10
4.4 The difference of talent identification between China and West for admission to the university. 10
4.4.1 The way of talent identification in China. 10
4.4.2 The way of talent identification in West. 11
4.5 The design of academic system between China and West. 11
4.5.1 Chinese academic system. 11
4.5.2 Western academic system. 11
4.5.3 The common of Chinese and Western academic system. 11
5. The common ground of Chinese and Western educational system. 13
5.1 The design and function of educational system all focus on the basic knowledge delivering by now. 13
5.2 The design and function of education system all emphasize the cultivation of student’s comprehensive quality. 13
6. Expectation for the innovation of Chinese and Western educational system. 14
6.1 Outlook to the reform of Chinese educational system. 14
6.2 Outlook to the reform of Western educational system.. 14
7. Conclusion 15
7.1 The construction of education system must balance “teaching” and “education”. 15
7.2 Cultural construction is the source and power of education system reform. 15
References 17
致谢 18
