The Comparative Study Of The Foreign Teachers At The End Of The Qing Dynasty And The Beginning Of New China

Engaging foreign teachers is one of the important channel for our country to promote exchange and cooperation with other countries in educational and cultural field. In our country's history, there were two high-tide periods of engaging foreign teachers.Our country employed Japan teachers at the end of the Qing Dynasty and Soviet Union experts in the early days of New China. There are not only sameness but also differentia between them. In the academic circles, it has gotten some concerns to each of them, but not the comparison between them. This article studied on the comparison between these two high-tide periods of engaging foreign teachers and analyzed the gain and loss in engaging foreign teachers in Modern and Contemporary History of China.This article compares these periods of engaging foreign teachers on the social backgrounds, education backgrounds and the evolution. Then, it compares them on employment and management, staff distribution, Chinese's attitude on foreign teachers and the reasons for their decline. Lastly, this article compares these two high-tide periods of engaging foreign teachers on the influence, summing up the common problems. Many of the problems which existed in these two periods are still the barriers to the education now. Such as, thoughtless selection of foreign teachers leads to the declination of the quality of education, lack of the training before work results in blind teaching, impeded teaching assessment system gives rise to foreign teachers' poor performance.At the end of the article, the writer puts forward some suggestions to deal with the problems, and illustrates the reflection on today's employment of foreign teachers. Such as, standardizing the system of engagement and management, improving the assessing ways and stimulating measures for foreign teachers' tasks, taking the proper attitude toward foreign teachers and making full use of them.