Abstract With the development of the world, education becomes more and more important for every county. It is a method to cultivate elites, and elites promise a better future of a county. There are many types of teaching approaches, but whether people use suitable teaching approaches is directly related to the success of education. There is a very close relationship between teaching approaches and a certain culture. Culture influences teaching approaches. Different teaching approaches will bring about different kinds of elites to its society.
This thesis uses constructivism teaching theory as a basic standard to judge which teaching approach can cultivate more creative students. Eastern teachers mainly use spoon-feed pedagogy, emphasizing teachers-centered teaching approach. Teachers pay attention to the contents in books, but they neglect practice of knowledge. This teaching approach is just good for helping students to get high scores on test. But students will take passive attitude to their education in this learning atmosphere.
Western teachers always take heuristic method, emphasizing students-centered teaching approach. Teachers pay attention to students’ creative ability. They encourage students to get knowledge from practice. This teaching approach is good for helping students to improve their innovative abilities. And students will become eagerly to learn in this learning atmosphere.
Today, the world is very competitive. In order to face the fierce competition, every country should cultivate more creative elites. In this aspect, teachers of eastern countries should learn more on how to lead students to apply theories into practice as the teachers of western countries do. Eastern students should apply their knowledge into practice. And western countries should learn cooperation and team spirit of eastern countries. Western students should help each other in their studies or works.
Analyzing similarities and difficulties of eastern and western teaching approaches, people can find their own advantages and disadvantages in eastern and western education. And then they can also find that western teaching approach accords with constructivism teaching theory. This teaching approach can cultivate students’ creativities. But eastern education does not follow constructivism teaching theory. This teaching approach emphasizes students’ basic knowledge.
Finally, this paper will put forward some reasonable recommendations to education according to these advantages and disadvantages in eastern and western teaching approaches.
Key words: pedagogy study, constructivism teaching theory, initiative learning
摘要
随着当今世界的发展,教育对每个国家来说都变得越来越重要。教育是培养人才的手段,而人才意着一个国家的未来。教学的方法有很多种类,但是教学法的适用与否直接关系着这个国家教育的成败。一个国家运用何种教学法与这个国家的文化背景紧密相关, 文化影响着各国的教学方式。不同的教学方式所培养的人才规格也不一样。9679