Historical Survey Of Small Class Education And Research

The thesis investigates the historical track of small-class oriented education, andseveral basic theoretic issues involved in, then explores the feasibility of implementingsmall-class oriented education and its impact to tradition education. In the end, on reviewing the research conclusions abroad and the present domestic situation on small-class oriented education, the article puts forward a number of strategic suggestions on small-class oriented education. The whole thesis divides into five parts:Part I: A clarification and definition of small-class oriented education.This part makes a clarification and specification on three basic conceptions involved in small-class oriented education, 'small class', 'small-class education', 'small-class oriented education', after analyzing the attributes of the three concepts and the relations among them, the thesis further explores on the successive relationship between small-class oriented education and traditional class teaching.Part II: A review on the history of small-class oriented education.This part tries to draw a skeleton of the history of small-class oriented education on the time axes, while analyzing the social, political, economic and cultural reasons to push the development of small-class oriented education, the article specifying the status quo of small-class oriented education of each phase, discussed the objective inevitability of history wheel.Part III: A study on the key issues of small-class oriented education.This part tries to touch three basic issues around small-class oriented education and answer Whether, Why, and How small-class can improve education effects, so as to provide some theoretic foundations for putting small-class oriented education into practices and promoting its popularity.Part IV: A theoretic reflection on small-class education.This part exams the feasibility of extending small-class education from theeconomics view, and tries to seek an innovative way leading to small-class orientededucation, which will match the spirit of the new era and be feasible on the policy levelas well; then the article analyzes the impacts to tradition education caused byimplementing small-class oriented education from the pedagogy view.Part V: Policy suggestions of small-class oriented education.Based on the research progress of small-class oriented education in foreign countries and the present situation of China in extending small-class oriented education, this part proposes a number of policy suggestions, to serve as reference for puttingsmall-class education into practice in China.