Cultural Influences on Physics Education

This paper gives a brief description of the cultural influences in China today on education in general, and on the teaching and learning of physics in particular. The discussion focuses on (a) the emphasis on moral and intellectual development as the aims of physics education, (b) the content of the school physics course, teaching strategies and the reform of physics teaching, and (c) students' approaches and conceptions of learning, their ways of thinking and their understanding of concepts in physics.