Contemporary Cultural Change And Education Mission

Education has always inseparable from culture. It not only exists and develops as one part of culture, but it also is a special kind of high culture form itself. Culture is transmitted from generation to generation and develops continuously to promote heritage. Therefore it is education that acts as the vehicle to promote culture, and vice versa, exhaling the old and inhaling the new. So we can say culture is a kind of life organism. This is a suitable theory related to the function of education within culture and explains the relationship between education and culture. Therefore, in this view Chinese culture change is the macro-background as well as the key component to Chinese educational reform.Culture change is the increasing and decreasing of the elements that comprise culture and the resulting new "mix". Culture accumulation and creation are the core elements of culture change. Culture creation develops a new culture to criticize and surmount the old one. Culture accumulation means the increase of cultural elements and special qualities within a culture to develop a richer and improved cultural atmosphere.Because of the renewal of Chinese traditional culture, the import of foreign culture and rapid progress in modem technology and industrial civilization, changes of modern culture have very clear characteristics. This can be viewed as: the co-occurrence and conflict of multi-culture in modern society: the reforming and opening up of Chinese society promotes culture opening so that Chinese culture is transforming from culture of the same quality to that of different quality, and there's an obvious trend to be various, complicated and multiplied of the culture. That's to say, in cultural structures of modern china, there are various cultural elements that are functioning themselves in general structures of modern Chinese culture. The trend towards publicization in modern cultural changes: reforming andopening up accelerates rapid progress continuously in economic growth, which causes rises in consuming standard of public materials and quality with development of cultural consumption, and, so cultural industry aiming of gaining profits appears at the right time. The rapid growth of scientific technology and extention of public media supplies fundamental support of science and technology to cultural industry, under the influence of publicization of cultural education in modernization. In such cases, there's quite clear tendency towards publicization in culture charge; The trend towards visualization and using network in culture change: Internet claiming starts of network era produces huge energy causing a series new technical reforming with new trend and characters-visualization and network.If it's true that world cultures clashed in 19th century and overwhelmed each other in 20th century, world cultures in 21st century will be in a era of dialogue and amalgamation. In such kind of background, Chinese culture is transforming from culture of the same quality to that of different quality, and there's a clear trend to be various, complicated and.The multi-culture we point out is that traditional culture is beginning to lose its controlling situation, but not completely, while bud of new factors of new culture start to grow, but not in a stable situation, which brings a state of "vacuum", which causes several kinds of culture co-existence in society. This can be viewed in 3 aspects: 1. co-existence of eastern and western culture; 2. pre-modern, modern, and post modern standing together; 3. elite culture, mass culture and enterprise culture. Besides, network culture comes out in recent year.Cultures in different nations, area, social classes having different value orientation and purposes will be easily in a conflicting state in the process of flow and exchange. Because of this kind of conflict happens in value usually, it's called conflict of cultural value. Cultural conflicts are differentin quality and aspects. Cultural conflicts in china is non-counteraction in quality which is represented...