Europe VS AsiaEducation Culture

Presenters: Lam Hoi I, Katrina (10019634)Tong Hui Sik, Max (10008675)

EuropeTeaching

Europe – TeachingTeaching Focus

◦Devote resources and teach different knowledge

◦Encourage students to digest knowledge

Europe – Teaching Teaching Habit

◦Individual characters◦Built up their analytical skill

Europe – Teaching Teaching Attitude

◦Teachers as supplements◦Not result-focused

EuropeLearning

Europe – Learning Learning Interest

◦More diversified◦Learn according to their own interest

Europe – Learning Learning Habit

◦Seldom recite◦Active outdoor learning◦Active class participation

Europe – Learning Learning Attitude

◦Curiosity◦Challenge the authority◦Rather relaxed

AsiaTeaching

Asia - Teaching Teaching Focus• teach examination skills

Tutoring Culture? “private tutoring has become widespread across

Asia, according to a report released in July by the Asian Development Bank and the Comparative Education Research Center at the University of Hong Kong.

The report quoted studies, polls and other sources as saying that 97 percent of all Singaporean students, nearly 90 percent of South Korean primary students and about 85 percent of Hong Kong senior secondary students receive tutoring.”

(quoted from an article on NY Times published on August 5, 2012: Tutoring Spreads Beyond Asia's Wealthy)

Asia - Teaching Teaching Habit• corporate nature: encourage

students to act like others in the community

• Encouraged planned life schedule

Asia - Teaching Teaching Attitude• authority, expected to be listened• focus on competition among

students

(Translation: You can’t answer this

Simple question?)

AsiaLearning

Asia - LearningLearning interest• learning as a path to develop

career and earn for a living• emphasis on business, science or

other practical subjects

Asia - LearningLearning Habit• Reciting textbook

content• Doing homework • Passive class

participation

Asia - LearningLearning attitude• guided learning path, obey to the

senior and authority• Work hard, try to fit into the

system even it is not fair

ConclusionDifferences in mind development:

• More prosperous design and IT industries in European countries, like France (Fashion design).

• Service and manufacturing industries more dominating in Asian countries, like China.

Reference list: NY Times, Tutoring Spreads Beyond Asia's Wealthy-

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/06/world/asia/06iht-educlede06.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Eurydice Network: European Education Systems and policies-http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/education/eurydice/index_en.php

Review And Evaluation Of International Literature On Managing Cultural Diversity In The Classroom-http://www.minedu.govt.nz/~/media/MinEdu/Files/EducationSectors/InternationalEducation/ProvidersOfIntEd/InternationalismClassRoomStrategies.pdf

Iveta Silova, Private tutoring in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: policy choices and implications-http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03057920903361926#preview