An international comparison of the problems of school education reform and teacher education in response to the changing regional societies

福岛大学、北京师范大学和威斯康星大学欧克莱尔分校的研究人员1995年4月至1997年3月的联合比较教育研究是前两所大学的研究人员1992年4月至1995年3月联合研究的补充和补充。第二个研究阶段的主题是：面对快速变化的社会，学校教育改革与教师教育的比较研究。在第二年的调研中，福岛大学代表团访问了教育委员会、欧克莱尔学区的几所学校和其他相关教育设施，以及麦迪逊公共教学部，BNU和UWEC代表团访问了福岛大学、福岛大学附属学校和福岛以外的学校。在几次研究会议上，各小组成员就各自的学校教育改革现状和教师教育现状交换了必要的信息。通过这些实地考察和会议，我们开始对中美两国教育设计者和改革者不断努力改革学校教育制度和加强教师（未来的或在职的）教育制度有了更清晰的认识。尤其令人印象深刻的是，美国学校和社会之间的密切关系和卓有成效的合作，发现并试图解决或应对各种各样的教育问题和需求，以及中国人民在教育方面为应对社会的快速现代化和自由化所做的不懈努力。

The joint comparative educational research, April 1995-March 1997, by the research members from Fukushima University (FU), Beijing Normal University (BNU) and University of Wisconsin Eau Claire (UWEC) was a supplementary and complementary continuation of the joint research, April 1992-March 1995, by the researchers from the first two. The main theme for this second research period was : a comparative study of the school education reform and teacher education in response to the rapidly changing societies.For the second year's research, reciprocal fieldwork was made by FU delegation visiting the Board of Education, several schools, and other related educational facilities in Eau Claire school district, and the Department of Public Instruction in Madison, on the one hand, and BNU and UWEC delegation visiting FU,FU's attached schools and schools outside Fukushima city, on the other hand. Necessary information was exchanged by the members from each group giving papers during several research meetings on the their respective present situation of school education reform and teacher education.Through these field visits and meetings, we have begun to have a clearer picture of the evergrowing endeavors to reform the school education system and to strengthen the teacher, prospective or in-service, education system on the part of Chinese and American education designers and reformers. Particularly impressive were the close relationships and fruitful collaboration as seen between school and society in America to identify and try to solve or respond to all different kinds of problems and needs of education, and the endless efforts by Chinese people to cope educationally with the rapid modernisation and liberalisation of their society.