In 2014, the Department of Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education selected four outstanding ideological and political teachers, including Feng Xiujun and Bai Xianliang, to study in the United States and the United Kingdom for several months. This book is the culmination of the author's thoughts while observing ideological and political teaching in the United Kingdom and the United States and even the entire national education during his visit. The book consists of 40 essays, which start from some details during the study tour in the United Kingdom and the United States, such as China in the eyes of Americans, foreign language teaching in British and American countries, the development space of the poor in the United States and the United Kingdom, how the United Kingdom and the United States carry out gratitude education, how Americans treat their leaders, etc., To think about and compare the differences between Chinese and Western educational concepts and even Chinese and Western cultures.
Reader comments
This book uses the author's personal experience of studying abroad and shows the differences between Chinese and Western educational concepts and cultures in the form of essays, which reminded me of my own experience studying abroad. The many opinions and thoughts in the book also gave me a deeper understanding of education. For example, the American gratitude education mentioned in the book made me realize that we should also pay more attention to cultivating children's gratitude. All in all, this is a thought-provoking book worth reading.
This book uses the author's personal experience of studying abroad and shows the differences between Chinese and Western educational concepts and cultures in the form of essays, which reminded me of my own experience studying abroad. The many opinions and thoughts in the book also gave me a deeper understanding of education. For example, the American gratitude education mentioned in the book made me realize that we should also pay more attention to cultivating children's gratitude. All in all, this is a thought-provoking book worth reading.