Normal Education System in Australia and China

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211011.035How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Normal Education, Pre-service Teachers, Comparative Education, Standard for Teachers, Australia, China

Abstract

Normal education is a crucial approach to training excellent teachers. Both China and Australia have their normal education systems. However, owing to the diversities in politics and culture, the normal education of both countries has similarities and differences. The paper compares the normal education program in two countries, and we focus on the programs in the Universities that are prepared for future primary school teachers. The paper reviews the public documents, the research from both countries about their own national normal education development, and some research specifically discuss comparing primary teacher training system between China and western countries. Firstly, the paper compare the professional standards for teachers set by the department of education in both countries as the pitching in point. Then, understanding the correlation and gaps between theory learning and educational practice according to the social background of the two countries. The endpoint of the paper is with firstly, the social and cultural background lead to different design and adopting of the educational theories and practices in the educational program in the universities. The authors are aware that the nature of comparative education is to investigate two different forming of social context in two different regions. Secondly, although the designs of the normal education programs in universities in two countries and the reasons behind the design are different from beginning to end, the needs for professional support of the graduate teachers are similar. The governments in both countries take a positive attitude in managing the professional engagement of the graduate teachers.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yili Hu
AU  - Xintong Shi
AU  - Ziyue Sun
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/10/12
TI  - Normal Education System in Australia and China
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 6th International Conference on Modern Management and Education Technology（MMET 2021）
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 195
EP  - 200
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211011.035
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211011.035
ID  - Hu2021
ER  -