Family Education in Contemporary China: A Preliminary Analysis of the Problems, Causes and Solutions Based on National Family Education Survey Report (2018)

The National Family Education Survey Report (2018) was released in September 2018. This paper presents a systemic review of the report, revealing that the prominent challenges of family education in China include: a strong exam-oriented belief; the neglect of non-intellectual factors (such as morality, psychological development and personal interest); the barriers in home-school communications. This paper proposes several solutions regarding the challenges: improving the familial educational supporting system; guiding the parents to improve their parenting skills; reforming the mechanisms of educational evaluation and school entrance to shape the exam-oriented belief and to promote the quality education; realizing the primary duties of parents in education to reinforce home-school collaboration.