The views on the American family education from Growing Pains.doc

the views on the american family education from growing painscontentsabstracti摘 要.iii. general introduction11.1 research background.11.2 research questions21.3 organization of the thesis.2ii. about growing pains.3 2.1 introduction3 2.1.1 the synopsis of growing pains.3 2.1.2 growing pains in mainland3 2.2 some scenes from growing pains.3iii. the definition of parental involvement in education.5 3.1 the definition of “family” and “parent involvement in education”.5 3.1.1 the definition of family.5 3.1.2 the definition of parent involvement in education5 3.2 the studies of parent involvement in education.6 3.2.1 the descriptive studies on parent involvement in education6 3.2.2 at-risk studies on parent involvement in education.6 3.2.3 outcome-based studies on parent involvement in education7 3.3 the theoretical basis and research pattern for parental involvement in education7 3.3.1 parental involvement in educational motive expectation theory.7 3.3.2 as motive expectation theory, the motivation is the product of expectation.7 3.3.3 psychological theory does a research in understanding why the parents do for their childrens education.8 3.4 the way of american parental involvement in education8iv. parent involvement in education in america10 4.1 the situation of parent involvement in education in america10 4.2 the reason for american parents to participate in education.10 4.3 the development of american parents to participate in education in history.12 4.4 the reasons for feasibility of parental participation in education134.4.1 the economic reasons.134.4.2 the culture and traditions reasons.134.4.3 the pluralistic evaluation criteria reasons.144.5 the problems of american parents to participate in education144.5.1 the traditional concepts of education become the shackles to parental involvement in education.144.5.2 the diversity of family background.144.5.3 negative attitudes of parent involvement in education.14. parent involvement in education in china16 5.1 the history of chinese parents involved in education.16 5.2 the status of parental involvement in education.17 5.2.1 the form of parental involvement in education17 5.2.2 the form of parental involvement in education17 5.2.3 the way of communication between parents and school.17 5.3 the problems of chinese parents involved in education.18 5.4 strategies for creating a good environment for parent involvement in education.18 . conclusion.19bibliography.19acknowledgements.20abstractthe family is the cells of our society, is the first school for our children and is also the cradle for talented person. in recent years, with the development of quality-oriented education has already stricken root into the hearts of the people, the family education has been a hot spot of society, in which tens of thousands of families vital benefits and urgent need lie.as the 1980s new popularity of family-spindle sitcom, growing pains successfully shows us a happy life of an american suburb family with many children. in the play, doctor seaver takes his children heuristic education way, also let the audience had a most intuitionistic feelings and gain enlightenments to american family education.an ordinary american family, some ordinary stories which are likely to happen to us are there. why did this sitcom can cause people so high interest discussion on american family education?by analyzing the american sitcom - growing pains, we can get some characteristics on american family education. based on the in-depth study of these features and comparison of the current situation of chinese family education, we can hope get some enlightenments for our family education.key words：family education；parent involvement；america；growing pains摘 要 家庭是社会的细胞，是孩子的第一所学校,也是人才成长的摇篮。近几年来，随着素质教育的深入人心，家庭教育已经成为当今社会关注的一个热点，是千万家庭的切身利益和迫切需求所在。 作为80年代新兴起的以家庭为主轴的情景喜剧的代表作，成长的烦恼成功地向我们展现了一个美国郊区的多子女家庭的幸福生活。剧中西佛医生对子女采取启发式教育的方式，也让观众对美国式家庭教育有了一次最直观的感受，并从中得到启示。 一个普通的美国家庭，一些都可能发生在我们身边的故事，为何能引发人们对于美国式家庭教育如此高兴趣的探讨？本文通过对美国情景喜剧-成长的烦恼的分析，思考美国家庭教育的特点。通过对这些特点的深入研究与当前中国家庭教育现状的对比，希望可以使我国的家庭教育从中得到一些启示.关键词：家庭教育；家长参与；美国；成长的烦恼iii. general introduction:1.1 research backgroundas the english word “family” itself, someone has done to explain family = father and mother, i love you. this comment reflects the family contained in the deep meaning, manifests the family play an indispensable emotional sustenance in the childs growth process. thus, the parents, the family is the childs emotional end, is the cradle of child development, and also the first school in the process of childs growth. family education plays an indispensable role for childrens physical and mental development. however, a long time, our society has always attached great importance to improving the quality of teachers, but for parents, the most important person in childrens life, they are childrens first teacher and life-long teachers, did not receive enough attention, so there are many weak links for the family education in china.in recent years, family education about the similarities and differences of china and the u.s. caused more and more attention. from these articles the author have referenced, some are on the study of sino-us comparison of the current education system, some are refer to the contrast of bilateral political, historical, and cultural similarities and differences. and there are also study on the two peoples beliefs, values and different orientationsgrowing pains is an american television sitcom which was introduced into china many years ago. since it has been broadcast in 1990, the play received great success and it has still given us a strong response. the sitcom tells us a normal american family which parents live together with their children and happily growing up with them. this sweet story raises peoples awareness of family education. in the play, parents teach their children persuasive way and treat their children friendly way is impressive.start with the films content and circumstances of departure, this article expounds parents involvement play an important role in children family education in the united states, and then its presence and the development in the united states will be analyze and discussed in deeply. after comparing the situation that chinese parent involvement in children education, the hope that an understanding of the american family education will be achieved, and have a inspiration for chinese parents to participate in family education reform.1.2 research questionsin order to achieve the above objectives，based on the observations the following are the research questions which we would like to answer：1）how does the play-growing pains show us the american family education and what kind of characteristics on american family education they present us?2）what is “parents involvement” mean? what kind of role it made in american family education and how it develops in the us?3）what is the situation about chinese family education at present? what can we learn from the american family education? by answering these questions，the aim is to find out some useful results and conclusions which enrich the study of the american family education。1.3 organization of the thesisthere are six chapters in this thesischapter one outlines the research background，research questions and the structure of this paperchapter two aims to present some information about growing pains and find out some parts from the play which reflect the characteristics of american family education. explain how does an american parent involved in family education. in this chapter i will give some information to confirm that it is not just a unique situation happened in the uschapter three following what has been referred in the second chapter, offers an overview of “parents involvement”， the basic theories of it， discusses the specific practice of it in america. chapter four focuses on the history and development of parent involvement in the us, and some successful aspects and some problems which exist there. by analyzing these, the acknowledgement will be achieved that social factor and human factor are two keys to effect success of parent involvement.chapter five presents the situation of chinese family education and parent-involved education. the analysis will be conducted based on the situation.chapter six makes a conclusion of the study by summarizing findings and limitation of the study, as well as suggesting areas for further study. about growing pains2.1 introductiongrowing pains is an american television sitcom about an upper-middle class family, residing in huntington, new york, with a working mother and a stay-at-home psychiatrist father raising three children together, which aired on abc from 1985 to 1992.2.1.1 the synopsis of growing pains the shows premise is based on the fictional seaver family, who reside in huntington, long island, new york. dr. jason seaver, a psychiatrist, works from home because his wife, maggie malone, has gone back to work as a reporter. jason has to take care of the kids: troublemaker mike, honors student carol, and rambunctious ben. a fourth child, chrissy seaver, was born in 1988. she was played in her infant stage by twins kristen and kelsey dohring. beginning in the fall of 1990, chrissys age was advanced to six years old, whereupon ashley johnson took over the role.2.1.2 growing pains in mainland this show was dubbed in chinese by the shanghai television in the late 1980s with the title of chngzhng de fnno (成长的烦恼; chngzhng means growing, fnno means pains).2.2 some scenes from growing painsscene one：mike wants to go the house of sweat，a dance club with his friend jerry delish who is a poor driverhe knows that his mother doesnt let him go，especially with jerry，and he requests his fathers permissionjason：all fightnow that im in charge at home，we can try things my waymike：all fight?jason：you dont even know what “my way” is?mike：sure i do dad，its a sinatra song【laugh】jason：youre walking a fine line here mikeokay, look，heres the dealill give you a little more freedom，youve got to promise me a lot more responsibilitymike：hey, no problem dadi swear, i am ready for total responsibility【laugh】jason：mike，im not ready for total responsibility【laugh】scene two：mike colored a white dog into blackhis father is very angry about his crazy behaviormike：yeahokay, byewell its my lessoni11 never do that againjason：no you wont mike，because youre grounded for the rest of your life【laugh】mike：dad?jason：and a month after that【laugh】scene three：its really stupid that mike sideswiped a police carhe feels terribly sorry about his foolish behavior and hes very upsetby telling mike his own experience，jason tries to make mike feel betterjason：well if it makes you feel any better, i did some pretty lame-o things in my daymike：you?jason：yeah!mike：like what?jason：well 1ike i member when i was sixteen，me and some buddies，we drove around town one night，mooning everybodywe even mooned the mayors wife【laugh】mike：you dad?jason：uhuyeah we got arrested for indecent exposurehad to let us off thoughmayors wife refused to make identificationthese scenes above from growing pains are not only full of laugh, but present harmonious relationship between parents and children, show us the parental involvement in education in the us. the definition of parental involvement in education 3.1 the definition of “family” and “parent involvement in education”3.1.1 the definition of familybefore doing this paper, the first two concepts should be clear: what is the “parents”; what is parent participation education. discussed in this article, parents of students not only refers to the birth parents, adoptive parents or dependents, but also other family members such as: sister, brother, relatives, elders and so on. 3.1.2 the definition of parent involvement in educationparent involvement in education has not a fixed meaning, and different people have different understanding of it. so, it has still no a clear, widely accepted definition or expression, and consider it as parental involvement, parent involvement, parent participation, parent-teacher collaboration and so on. as ma zhonghu said in the home-school cooperation”, the united states advanced problem student researcher j. a. vandergrift and arizona state university morrison institute for public policy-based research consultant a. j. green pointed out that people are the most common parental involvement in education is a perception that parents actively participate in school-sponsored activities (such as parent meetings), or other ways that people can observed to help children learning (as read with their parents, help children with homework). american scholar lombardo further pointed out that, broadly speaking, parents involvement in education is all education activities which directly or indirectly affect their children (students). there are scholars believe that parental involvement is home-school education based on mutual cooperation and communication between parents and schools, so that children can receive two different kinds of complementary educational influence at the same time. the formation of a variety of necessary qualities will help the children to benefit from it and better socialize themselves. though there is no strict definition on the concept of parents involved in education, however, we can still be able to understand it from the following areas and grasp: (1) parents in the family have the responsibility in the education of children, but also the participation of school education rights and obligations; (2) parent participation in school education is a two-way activity, parents should support school education, and schools should make the necessary guidance to parents: at the same time between parents and schools is an equal partnership; (3) parent involvement in education always be centers students healthy development and growth, promote the healthy development of students and make it as the ultimate goal of parental involvement in education.3.2 the studies of parent involvement in educationcurrently, the u.s. parent involvement in education research related to three areas: descriptive studies, at-risk studies, and outcome-based studies. 3.2.1 the descriptive studies on parent involvement in education such research has focused on the studies of ways and methods of parental involvement in education. these studies identified how parents involved in schools and students education. most of these studies based on the role theory or from parent individuals to analyze the characteristics of the parents involved in education. from this perspective, the majority of the parents will be treated as spectators, volunteers, policy makers and teachers. according to the personality, these studies divided parents involved in education into three different categories: parents because of the lack of emotion, poor student achievement, and students rather than the urgent needs of life and willing not to participate in school education: the other is the parents involved in school education too much, an attempt to dominate the school, to meet their desire for power; most parents between these two part can not only participate in certain school educational activities, but when conditions are promise to become active participants.3.2.2 at-risk studies on parent involvement in educationcrisis also refers to the parents of those negative in education. the study made clear that types of negative parents innovated in education, including low-income parents, parents with lower educational level, single family, the parents of minority language speakers and those who have personal problems of parents. 3.2.3 outcome-based studies on parent involvement in education outcome-based studies mean parental involvement in education on student learning of the positive impact. parent involvement education to the healthy growth of the students have a positive impact, including a stronger motivation of study, better behavior in school, higher levels of learning and higher test scores, lasting success, better health and psychological, as well as a more positive respect for teachers.3.3 the theoretical basis and research pattern for parental involvement in education3.3.1 parental involvement in educational motive expectation theorymotive expectation theory is the basic theory in the study of parental involvement in education. the theorys typical representative bandura considers that human behavior is based on what they can do (self-efficacy beliefs), and the results of their actions (results beliefs). bandura believes that individual success stories will lead to enhanced self-efficacy. in the research on parent involvement in education, strengthening teacher self-efficacy is the ability of teachers t