from Katrina Lam and Max Tong

1. Europe VS Asia
Education Culture
Presenters: Lam Hoi I, Katrina (10019634)
Tong Hui Sik, Max (10008675)

2. Europe
Teaching

3. Europe – Teaching
 Teaching Focus
◦ Devote resources and teach different
knowledge
◦ Encourage students to digest knowledge

4. Europe – Teaching
 Teaching Habit
◦ Individual characters
◦ Built up their analytical skill

5. Europe – Teaching
 Teaching Attitude
◦ Teachers as supplements
◦ Not result-focused

6. Europe
Learning

7. Europe – Learning
 Learning Interest
◦ More diversified
◦ Learn according to their own interest

8. Europe – Learning
 Learning Habit
◦ Seldom recite
◦ Active outdoor learning
◦ Active class participation

9. Europe – Learning
 Learning Attitude
◦ Curiosity
◦ Challenge the authority
◦ Rather relaxed

10. Asia
 Teaching

11. Asia - Teaching
 Teaching Focus
• teach examination skills

12. Tutoring Culture?
 “private tutoring has become widespread across Asia,
according to a report released in July by the Asian
Development Bank and the Comparative Education
Research Center at the University of Hong Kong.
 The report quoted studies, polls and other sources as
saying that 97 percent of all Singaporean students,
nearly 90 percent of South Korean primary students
and about 85 percent of Hong Kong senior secondary
students receive tutoring.”
 (quoted from an article on NY Times published on
August 5, 2012: Tutoring Spreads Beyond Asia's
Wealthy)

13. Asia - Teaching
 Teaching Habit
• corporate nature: encourage students
to act like others in the community
• Encouraged planned life schedule

14. Asia - Teaching
 Teaching Attitude
• authority, expected to be listened
• focus on competition among students
(Translation: You can’t answer this
Simple question?)

15. Asia
 Learning

16. Asia - Learning
 Learning interest
• learning as a path to develop career
and earn for a living
• emphasis on business, science or
other practical subjects

17. Asia - Learning
 Learning Habit
• Reciting textbook
content
• Doing homework
• Passive class
participation

18. Asia - Learning
 Learning attitude
• guided learning path, obey to the
senior and authority
• Work hard, try to fit into the system
even it is not fair

19. Conclusion
 Differences in mind development:
• More prosperous design and IT
industries in European countries, like
France (Fashion design).
• Service and manufacturing industries
more dominating in Asian countries,
like China.

20. Reference list:
 NY Times, Tutoring Spreads Beyond Asia's Wealthy-
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/06/world/asia/06iht-
educlede06.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
 Eurydice Network: European Education Systems and policies-
http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/education/eurydice/index_en.php
 Review And Evaluation Of International Literature On Managing
Cultural Diversity In The Classroom-
http://www.minedu.govt.nz/~/media/MinEdu/Files/EducationSectors/I
nternationalEducation/ProvidersOfIntEd/InternationalismClassRoom
Strategies.pdf
 Iveta Silova, Private tutoring in Eastern Europe and Central Asia:
policy choices and implications-
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03057920903361926#p
review