Abstract

There has been a long time that people discussed and considered the Chinese senior high school education to be highly intense. Teenagers who are educated by the education system lack creativity. A rising group of people have paid close attention to the diversity of American senior high school education, which leads to a heated discussion on the differences, merits and demerits between American and Chinese senior high school education. High School Musical is the exact movie which shows us the study and life of American senior high school teenagers. This will make more people acquainted with American senior high school education from this American movie.
High School Musical is a Disney series campus movie. It mainly talks about the students from East High School who overcome difficulties from friends and family in order to perform in the winter school musical and finally they succeed. What they have done inspires the rest to get out of their own world and live a colorful life.
The author of this paper intends to compare the American senior high school life and education the movie has expressed with Chinese senior high school education. The first part of the paper is to introduce the movie High School Musical. The second part is to analyze the current situation of Chinese senior high school education. The third part is to analyze the current situation of American senior high school education in combination with the movie. And the fourth part is to present the author’s opinion on the senior high school education of China and America respectively, and to discuss the merits and demerits of these two kinds of education.

Key words: senior high school; education; difference; High School Musical

摘  要

中国的高中教育长期被人们讨论，人们质疑现今的高中教育过于紧张，教育制度培养出的青少年过于死板。更多的人们开始关注美国高中教育的多样性，使得关于中美高中教育的差异与优缺点的讨论愈发激烈。《歌舞青春》正是一部描写美国高中青少年学习生活的电影。使更多的人们从美国电影里了解美国的高中教育。
《歌舞青春》是一部迪士尼系列校园青春电影。电影讲述了东部高中的学生为了能在高中冬季音乐剧中表演，克服来自朋友和家长的困难，最终成功出演，并激励了其他同学跳出自己的小世界，舞出自己的人生。
笔者旨在通过这部电影展现的高中生活和教育对比中国的高中教育。论文第一章介绍该电影。第二章分析中国高中教育的现状。第三章结合电影分析美国高中教育的现状。第四章提出笔者对中美高中教育各自的看法，以及简单讨论两种教育的优缺点。

关键词：高中；教育；差异；《歌舞青春》