Accommodating the external environment

Donghai Feng

doi:10.1007/978-981-15-0749-6_8

Abstract

China and the Western countries have different historical traditions in terms of the relations between school and community. The Chinese educational historians have a summary of Chinese school education in ancient times, which is called XUE-ZAI-GUAN-FU [education never takes place out of official compound]. This saying is based on three fundamental characteristics of school education during initial stage of school education in ancient China (the period of time so-called the Chinese society with slave system). The first characteristic is that school education is exclusively the experience of the children from royal and noble families, and never allowed to extend to common man. Secondly, the school house is set in the royal palace or an official residence, in which a certain official or a couple of officials take the role of teachers. To be more exactly, these officials are only part-time teachers, since they also take other governing responsibilities in central or local governments.

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China and the Western countries have different historical traditions in terms of the relations between school and community.The Chinese educational historians have a summary of Chinese school education in ancient times, which is called XUE-ZAI-GUAN-FU [education never takes place out of official compound]
The school house is set in the royal palace or an official residence, in which a certain official or a couple of officials take the role of teachers
In modern China, the modern school education was no longer confined to the saying “education never takes place out of official compound”, either government schools or private schools, including the Christian-funded schools still had little substantive connection with local communities since a Chinese school house was usually surrounded by high wood fence or concrete barrier, and there was little interaction between people inside and outside the school wall

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China and the Western countries have different historical traditions in terms of the relations between school and community.The Chinese educational historians have a summary of Chinese school education in ancient times, which is called XUE-ZAI-GUAN-FU [education never takes place out of official compound]. A Chinese school, an urban school in particular, for a long time in the past, was built in a community didn’t mean that its students were necessarily the children from the families of the community (Feng, 2008). This phenomenon of alienation between Chinese schools. In the Decision of State Council on the reform and development of basic education released in 2001, the State Council called for schools to further improve communication and cooperation with local community, made full use of community resources to provide students with a variety of activities beneficial to them, and create a community environment to blossom students into well-prepared and socially-engaged

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