Abstract

In 2011, the National Education Committee of Finland published “The Framework for Off-campus Education in Primary and Secondary Schools”, which stipulated the goals, content, and implementing guarantee of the off-campus education in primary and secondary schools. Besides, while emphasizing the equal importance of on-campus and off-campus education, the “Framework” also advocated schools to actively deal with the challenges posed to off-campus education, ensured its high quality and efficiency from all aspects, and cultivated primary and secondary school students’ emotional cognition, so as to enhance the level of their moral cognition. As a result, The “Framework” has profoundly promoted the development of off-campus education in Finnish primary and secondary schools. The off-campus education of china has certain problems relatively, such as the lack of system management, while quality is not guaranteed. However China has invested a lot of human, financial and material resources in basic education these years, and appropriate measures have been taken to address the problem of excessive burden on students. Moreover, much importance was attached to strengthening the construction and management of off-campus education sites, and enriching students’ extracurricular education. The author’s current study opted to compare Finland and China on Off-campus Education of Primary and Secondary Schools. Implications for Chinese education are discussed.

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  • IntroductionIn 2011, the National Education Committee of Finland published “The Framework for Off-campus Education in

  • In 2011, the National Education Committee of Finland published “The Framework for Off-campus Education inHow to cite this paper: He, Q. and Fu, D.L. (2014) A Comparison between Finland and China on Off-Campus Education of Primary and Secondary Schools

  • The “Basic Education Act” promulgated by Finnish government had clarified the relevant regulations for the off-campus education, it failed to be transformed into effective action

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Summary

Introduction

In 2011, the National Education Committee of Finland published “The Framework for Off-campus Education in. (2014) A Comparison between Finland and China on Off-Campus Education of Primary and Secondary Schools. Primary and Secondary Schools”, whose goals, content, guiding principles, implementing regulations, and assessment criteria are highly consistent with its fiscal policy. The “Framework” entered into force on August 1 in that year when all the local authorities were required to modify the policies of off-campus education in accordance with “The Framework for Off-campus Education in Primary and Secondary Schools”, seriously organize off-campus education, and treat on-campus education and off-campus education. China published “The National Medium- and Long-Term Plan for Education Reform and Development (2010 to 2020)”, which regards compulsory education as one of the eight tasks of development over the 10 years. Much importance was attached to strengthening the construction and management of off-campus education sites, and enriching students’ extracurricular education [1]

Background
The Difference of Importance Attached to Primary and Secondary Education
The Difference of the Status Quo of Off-Campus Education
Goals of Finland
Goals of China
Implement of Finland
Implement of China
On-Campus and Off-Campus Education Should Be Equally Emphasized
The Policy of Education Reform Should Be Elaborate
The Implementation of Education Policies Should Be Guaranteed
Findings
Conclusion
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