The Comparison And Analysis Of Multicultural Education Study In China And America

Nowadays, it is a trend to insist on the diversified development of the ethnic groups' education in multi-ethnic countries. China is a multi-ethnic country, and its ethnic groups have their distinguishing cultures and traditions. Tc some extent, America is a multi-ethnic country as well. The development of the ethnic groups' education of the two countries have different orbit in the past decades, until in the latter half of the 20 century, they meet in the same point-multicultural education.For the ethnic groups' education is an important part of the multicultural education and the development of our ethnic groups' education will go further in future, it is reasonable for us to study by the word "multicultural education" instead of "ethnic groups' education"Problem and method are the essences of one study, which bases on many materials contributed by former study. It is natural to begin the study from the aspects of problems, methods and references. Through the comparison and analysis the conception and the idea of multicultural education, the curriculum and bilingual education are the hot spots both in China and American. After further analysis, we discovered some differences in each focus point which Chinese researcher ignored. In the research methods field, there is some same realization that qualitive research methods are the main methods in the research of multicultural education. This same point can prove the idea is not appropriate that the use of qualitive research methods in the study is not scientific enough. In the analysis of the reference, it is common to see the studies are lack of academic rules and accumulation.The enlightment of the comparison and analysis of the research problems let us ay more attention on the researchers' value stand-point and choose of a topic. It is a process of finding the...