Abstract

Family education is the most primary education compared with school education and social education. It plays an important role in personal growth, happiness and family peace, and the development of the whole society. Under the impact of history, economy, culture and society, different countries have different features in family education. And this thesis carries out a comparative study on the notion, content, and method of Chinese and American family from the perspective of culture. To absorb advanced American family education concepts and cultivate more talents for Chinese society, the thesis discovers different characteristics of family education and explores the differences. The research methodologies are chiefly case study and comparative analysis. The writer obtains typical successful and failed family education in the two countries by searching numerous books, periodicals, papers and official websites and news reports. Chinese and American family education has their own strengths and weakness in the different subsets. This thesis has some suggestions to improve Chinese family education and hope that our national family education can be reasonable and complete.  

Key words: China，America，family education，comparison

CONTENTS

Abstract

摘要

1 Introduction-1

1.1The definition of family education-1

1.2 The purpose and function of family education-1

2 Introduction to Family Education in America and China-2

2.1 Review of family education in America-2

2.2 Review of family education in China-3

3Differences between Chinese and American Family Education-4

3.1 Differences in methods of education-4

  3.1.1 Differencesin ways of dealing with kids’ mistakes-4

  3.1.2 Differencesin views to kids’ dressing-4

3.2 Differences in purposes of education-5

3.3 Differences in contents of education-5

3.4 Differences in concepts of education-5

4Causes of the Differences-6

4.1 The effect of culture-6

4.2 Economic reasons-8

4.3 Historical reasons-10

5Conclusion-11

References-12