Start Date
7-6-2013 5:25 PM
End Date
7-6-2013 6:35 PM
Description
School-Family-Community Inter-coupling Education Model is to explore and construct an experiential learning mechanism for public benefit education (service learning), with students in the center, on the cornerstone of family education, driven by school education, propped by community education and bonded through service activities, with the aim to open up a pathway for youth education reform suitable for China’s circumstance. Students are the key players in observing, researching and/or identifying public affairs issues and needs from their own perspectives under the guidance of teachers, parents and community leaders, taking initiatives to improve the public affairs around family, school and community through participating, cooperating, serving, reflecting and using their own means. Meanwhile, students can build skills in communicating, cooperating, learning, taking initiatives, serving, and etc. The breakthrough of this experiential education model into the test-oriented school system in China will be realized by developing a series of coursework and a compatible evaluation matrix system in the curricula, easy for administrators and teachers to operate, students to take actions, parents and community leaders to assist, and are adaptable to all grade levels. Our pilot trials and research at primary school levels for the past two years will move up to higher grade levels gradually as the participating students move up.
Recommended Citation
Shang, L., Xu, H., Harrison, W., & Shen, Y. (2013, June). Research on school-family-community inter-coupling education model with skill-building approach in China. Paper presented at the 4th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning: Service-Learning as a Bridge from Local to Global: Connected world, Connected future, Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China.
Included in
Research on school-family-community inter-coupling education model with skill-building approach in China
School-Family-Community Inter-coupling Education Model is to explore and construct an experiential learning mechanism for public benefit education (service learning), with students in the center, on the cornerstone of family education, driven by school education, propped by community education and bonded through service activities, with the aim to open up a pathway for youth education reform suitable for China’s circumstance. Students are the key players in observing, researching and/or identifying public affairs issues and needs from their own perspectives under the guidance of teachers, parents and community leaders, taking initiatives to improve the public affairs around family, school and community through participating, cooperating, serving, reflecting and using their own means. Meanwhile, students can build skills in communicating, cooperating, learning, taking initiatives, serving, and etc. The breakthrough of this experiential education model into the test-oriented school system in China will be realized by developing a series of coursework and a compatible evaluation matrix system in the curricula, easy for administrators and teachers to operate, students to take actions, parents and community leaders to assist, and are adaptable to all grade levels. Our pilot trials and research at primary school levels for the past two years will move up to higher grade levels gradually as the participating students move up.