Study On Homeschooling In America And Enlightenment From It

With the development of economy and the society, education devotes so much to our modernization. However great achievement we've got today, compared to developed countries, there are a lot of weak points in our education system. In school education, the aims are narrow, the contents are too difficult, the form of exams is too limited. School education neglects human beings, and pays no attention to students'initiative. In the pattern of machine-like drills and compulsive indoctrination, students'personalities are separated, various characters are neglected, creativities are suppressed. In home education, the ideas and methods are too conservative. Limitation of parents'abilities can not satisfy children's development in different aspects. Many parents turn home education into another kind of classroom-extension of school education. What are mentioned above have something in common with America in 1950s. At that time, many American parents were not satisfied with their school education too. In the process of their looking for solutions, some of the parents refused to send their children to school, and educate them at home. This way of education, once regarded as a marginal one, has been improve a lot through parents'efforts. And now it is accepted by more and more families. A new form of education is born. And this kind of practice develops quickly in every state as a choice of freedom. It gradually gets support from schools, governments and the whole society. Some people consider it as the most powerful education. Now it has spread to other countries such as Canada, British and Thailand even Taiwan and Hongkong in China. And now many Chinese researchers, experts, teachers and parents are more and more interested in such kind of education form. Whether it'll also be a solution to our problems in education as the most powerful education in China? This thesis aims to study and analyze the development and situation of homeschooling in America and then bring in some good things that can help us. The thesis has five parts: part one has the problems in our education, significance and purpose of the thesis, literature review and definitions; part two analyzes the foundamental theories, the cause of homeschooling, and it's developing process; part three analyzes the conditions of homeschooling in America, teaching modules, teaching contents, moral education, teaching results, advantages and disadvantages of homeschooling; part four gives some suggestions to our school and home education; part five gives the conclusion.