HKBU POLS3620 Comparison of Family Education in China and UK

POLS 3620: Contemporary Europe and AsiaTam Wai Lok, Ivan 09019707

Sze Tsz Kwan, Ada 09013067

Yu Sin Wa, Iris 09017585

Europe: an individual in a family China: the center of a family

What is the role of a child in a European family and a Chinese family

Yu Sin Wa, Iris (09017585)

Chinese Families European Families

Family value Authoritarian Equality

Role of child in

families

reckling As an individual like

other family

members

Relationship of

parents and child

Subordinate Equal status or even

Friendship

Forms of

communication

Top-Down commands

and bottom-up

requests

Listening and sharing


Sze Tsz Kwan, Ada (09013067)

I couldn’t sleep! Tell me a bedside story!

I’ll thump you if you don’t sleep!

The most effective bedside story on Earth…


Raise your arm higher!

Bend your waist lower!

Stretch your body!

Ah, healthy gymnastics is not healthy at all…



“Oh, show some interest! How many 8-year-olds can play the ‘1812’ on a vacuum hose?”


Chinese Parents (Tend to be…) British Parents (Tend to be…)

- Authoritarian

a. Blame and scold first

Subordinative status

Children are not given chance

to explain for their

misbehaviours, taught to be

obedient

b. Use of corporal punishment

and threat

c. Lack of communication

- Authoritative

a. Ask for reason first

Equal status

Children are allowed to

explain for their mishaviours,

teach with reasoning

b. Rare use of corporal

punishment and threat

c. Communication, Two-way

understanding


“Not respecting parents will be

punished by Thunder God”

“You will lose your front teeth

if you tell lies”

Tam Wai Lok, Ivan (09019707)

Chinese Parents British Parents

• Obedient

• Morally good

• Independent

• Own individuality and

good conduct


“It’s Not That I Reject Your Values, Mum and Dad. It’s Just That

I’ve Evolved And You Haven’t.”



• Obedient

• Morally good

• Wealth and Honor

• Independent

• Own individuality and

good conduct

• Curiosity, Interest,

Happiness, Personal

growth


Father, Do you

love Me?

What score did you

get in your exam

today?

75

Then you only get 75%

of my love today.

75




•Authoritarian

•Think that they make

the best choice for their

children

•Understanding,

respecting

•Think that their

children are capable to

make decisions for their

own good



MasterCard Worldwide survey:

Hong Kong 88%

Taiwan 79%

China 46%

interviewed parents force

their children to attend at least

one interest class

Music instrument learning, foreign languages and

tutorial classes are the most popular interest classes

Only 8% interviewed parents take their children’s

interest into account

Different Degree of child’s freedom






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