POLS 3620 Educational Policy

Education System in Europe and Asia

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What is the goals?

• East:• Pass the imperial

examination• become the highest

rank in the society

• West:• To praise the GOD

• Provide pragmatic skills and professional to the state

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How They Run?

• East:• Private School(私塾 )• Little and inefficient

Public system

• West:• Church

• State-owned• Public service


What they taught?

• East:• Classics books of

Confucianism • AND Rules related

social norms

• West:• Theology• + Art, Law, Medicine• AND Science


How they judge the students and teachers

• East• NO for the teachers• Students: How many

they can recite

• West:• By Degree system• By Marks: ABCF


Some others characteristics

• East:• Huge amount and

Diverse • Rural Area Students

are not full time (Agriculture)

• West:• Students are come from

different parts of Europe

• Different schools have different advantages


Did they Clash?

NO


Examples

• Church School• Adopt the Soviet Model• Rise of China Rise of Traditional System?

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Globalization and the right responses in Education Reform

Do you know that:

Three million students

worldwide now study

outside their home

countries—

A 57-percent increase

in just the past decade


Integration of Asia and WestIn the West-The ultimate aim of education is to develop fully the potential capacity of individuals -Emphasis on Critical thinking: Individualistic Nature

East Asia education:

-Beliefs that teachers

are superior and always

right-Knowledge is not to be

made here and now,

but exists externally

-Emphasis on Harmony

Society : Collective Nature


GlobalizationInterflow of Ideas

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Internationalization of curriculum

Integration of a global perspective to curriculum development:

Does not arise out of a single cultural base but engages with global plurality in terms of sources of knowledge

• Liberal Studies


Think Globally

Think Critically

Think Diversely


A Trend of Cross-border Education

• More and more educational materials have moved off of campus firewalls

• self-learning -Internet


• Encouraging/ Increasing Student mobility: Study Tour, Academic Exchange

• Create elite international networks


India and China are likely to continue to be the world's leading single-nation exporters of students


Conclusion: More and knee competitionBetter to equip ourselves to be world talents “Think globally and Act locally”

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