Abstract

Family education comes first in all the educational forms one receives. Many educational experts all over the world all agree that its first and foremost role and impacts can last throughout one’s life. The necessity and importance of studying family education, esp. in this rapidly transformational and globalized world with increasingly fierce competition, have reached an unprecedented level for many countries. This paper mainly describes the current common problems in China’s family education, analyzes the reasons for them and tries to help solve them with the good practices drawn from the family education in the U.S., and provides some suggestions for parents in both countries in the hopes of improving and complementing each other in this area.

Highlights

  • Education refers to the education, guidance, influences taking place among family members, with the most common definition being the teaching and nurturing of the children by parents or other seniors

  • In order to adapt to the modern era and cultivate more competitive and innovative talents for our country, Chinese parents should pay attention to the problems in parenting and learn from the successful experience of American parents, who have yielded relatively remarkable achievements in this regard recognized the world over

  • Aside from learning from them in terms of ideology, objectives, means, contents, some suggestions are given to American parents for the two to complement each other and improve together

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Summary

A Discussion of and Suggestions to the Problems in Chinese Family Education

The School of Public Finance and Public Administration, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanchang, China.

Introduction
Comparison between Chinese and American Family Education
Moral Education
Sex Education
Similarities
Regarding Educational Objectives
Regarding Educational Means
Regarding Educational Contents
Regarding Parents’ Own Aspect
Regarding School and National Aspects
Conclusion
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