The Development and Problems of Comparative Education
摘要
In the late 1970s, with the reform and opening up in China, comparative education ushered in a remarkable opportunity for development. The development of educational undertaking and the recovery and development of education discipline were in urgent need of understanding the worldwide educational development and the development of the discipline. Against this background, comparative education was endowed with a vital mission, namely, introducing foreign education and foreign educational theories. Comparative education then became the most eye-catching field in the development of the whole educational undertaking and the research of educational theories. A large amount of foreign educational information was introduced to China with the help of the platform of comparative education, thus laying a foundation and providing basic reference for the educational reform and research. What was worth learning from the developed countries? How could China keep up with the development of the world? These are the questions that comparative education needs to answer.