A Survey of Chinese Secondary Student Perceptions of Affective Education

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By:fei fei Ren

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This article made an analysis of student opinions on affective education in Secondary school in China. The purpose is to point out the obvious and potential problems as to affective education and contribute to improvement. The principal instrument was a questionnaire developed by author. Semi-structured questionnaire was carried out in Zibo city --- 110 students in two secondary schools have participated in this small-scale research. In this research, a lot of cases have shown that the school and teachers still paid much attention to the academic development and affective education is basically ‘blind area’. The suggestions for improvement were discussed.

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