A Discussion of and Suggestions to the Problems in Chinese Family Education —Based on the Observations of American Family Education
- 1 The School of Public Finance and Public Administration, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanchang, China
- 2 The School of Public Finance and Public Administration, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanchang, China
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.
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