Analysis On The Pragmatic Spirit Of The Singapore National Education

Singapore’s small land area, ethnic diversity, fewer resources, and special location, andso on constitute a complex social structure and the basic national conditions, and suchSingapore that engraved "Onward Singapore" in the national emblem shows a persistentbelief of developing the country. After the joint efforts of the Government and all citizens, in afew decades, Singapore has made achievements attracted worldwide attention. Singapore hasachieved a qualitative leap, from a colonial countries full of turmoil and anxiety,contradictions and conflicts, poverty and dirty to now a garden city with the beautiful and rich,stable and harmonious, which is the result of the correct leadership of the Singapore People’sAction Party and hard work of all citizens, and more the results of implementing the spirit ofpragmatism in the long-term nation-building practice. The pragmatic policy of Singapore’snational education for rapid growth of economy, politics, culture trained a number of reserveforces with ability and political integrity, which protected the country to take the path ofdevelopment with Singapore characteristics.The development of national education and the formation of pragmatic spirit inSingapore, are inextricably linked with the special situation in Singapore, and are theintegration of multi-cultural essence, and are also the choice of development of the socialpractice. Policies of national education in Singapore in the development process reflectssuperiority of the pragmatic spirit, but there are also some problems as a result of variousreasons. Because there is a political exchanges, economic cooperation and common cultural inChina and Singapore, analysis on the pragmatic spirit of the Singapore National Education, tosome extent, has an important reference for the development of China’s ideological andpolitical education.This article discusses the five parts of the pragmatic spirit of the Singapore NationalEducation:Part I: This part overviews the research background of the pragmatic spirit of theSingapore National Education, and briefly introduces the research methods and the innovationand inadequacy, summarized the status of domestic and international research on thepragmatic spirit of the Singapore National Education.Part II: This part discusses the performance and characteristics of the pragmatic spirit ofthe Singapore National Education. First, it explain the meaning of national education in Singapore, the development of the history and basic content, and analyzes the background,meaning and content of the pragmatic spirit of the Singapore National Education. Second, itanalyzes the performance of the pragmatic spirit from "the national sense of crisis "education,"common values" education," multi-cultural concept" education, multi-layer diversioneducation and English-based bilingual education. And then it discusses the characteristics ofthe pragmatic spirit of national education in Singapore.Part III: This part analyzes the course and causes of the pragmatic spirit of the SingaporeNational Education. In the frist place, it analyzes the formation process of pragmatic spirit ofnational education which is divided into three historical periods. In the second place, fromboth subjective and objective aspects, it analyzes the reasons for the formation of thepragmatic spirit of national education.Part IV: This part briefly evaluates the pragmatic spirit of Singapore national education.This section summarizes the superiority of the pragmatic spirit of the national education, andanalyzes the gaps and problems generated.Part V: This part mainly discusses the pragmatic spirit’s reference of Singapore NationalEducation. This part talks about the positive significance of the pragmatic spirit of theSingapore National Education for the development of China’s education, and puts forwardsuggested countermeasures on the negative impact of the pragmatic spirit of the SingaporeNational Education.