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

福岛大学(Fu)、北京师范大学(BNU)和威斯康星大学(UWEC)研究人员于1995年4月至1997年3月进行的联合比较教育研究是前两者研究人员于1992年4月至1995年3月联合研究的补充和补充。第二期的主题是：学校教育改革与教师教育因应社会变化的比较研究。在第二年的研究中，傅园慧考察团一方面访问了Eau Claire学区的教育委员会、几所学校及其他相关的教育设施，以及麦迪逊的公共教学部，另一方面，北师大与UWEC考察团分别访问了福岛市外的福州师范大学、福州附中及福岛市外的学校。每个小组的成员在几次研究会上就各自学校教育改革和教师教育的现状交换了必要的信息。通过这些实地考察和会议，我们开始更清楚地了解中美两国教育设计者和改革者为改革学校教育制度和加强教师、准教师或在职教育制度所做的日益增长的努力。特别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，以识别并试图解决或回应各种不同类型的问题和教育需求，以及中国人在教育方面做出的不懈努力，以应对其社会的快速现代化和自由化。

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.