ABSTRACT:With the deepening of the education reform, the construction of the specialist school and campus culture has become an important developing tendency. Student organizations play an important role as one of the main measures of it. American student organization culture with its mature system offered a model to the rest of the world. With the Glee’s shown in 2009, American high school organization has become a hot topic again. Based on John Dewey’s theory of interest, this thesis analyzes the characteristics of American high school organization in TV plays Glee, which are precious references for the construction of high school organization in China. These characteristics are as follows: individuations, standardization, socialization, enrichment, branding. These characteristics highlight the students' personalities, strengthen the combination of student organization construction and high school organization, guide the competition for student organization, and obtain the fund guarantee for its development, which will offer us valuable reference to build our high school organization.

Keywords: American high school; organization culture; characteristics; Interest Theory

TABLE OF CONTENTS

摘要

ABSTRACT

1 INTRODUCTION-1

1.1 A Brief Introduction of Campus Culture and Specialist School-2

1.1.1 The definition and significance of campus culture construction-2

1.1.2 The definition and significance of specialist school construction-3

1.2 A brief introduction to TV plays Glee-4

2 LITERATURE REVIEW ON THE HIGH SCHOOL ORGANIZATION-6

2.1 The History of American High School Organization-6

2.1.1 The period of primary development (from 1636 to 1860)-7

2.1.2 The period of prosperity development (from 1860 to 1945)-8

2.1.3 The period of all-round development (from 1945 to now)-8

2.2 Overseas Studies on the High School Organization-9

2.3 Domestic Studies on the High School Organization-11

3 THE AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL ORGANIZATION ‘S CHARATERISTICS IN GLEE-13

3.1 Core Value of High School Organization----- Individuation-13

3.1.1 The definition of individuation-13

3.1.2 Individuation reflected in the Glee-14

3.2 Construction of High School Organization----- Standardization-14

3.2.1 The definition of standardization-15

3.2.2 The standardization construction reflected in the Glee-15

3.3 Administration of High School Organization----- Socialization-17

3.3.1 The definition of socialization-17

3.3.2 The socialized administration reflected in Glee-17

3.4 Context of High School Organization---- Enrichment-19

3.4.1 Various high school organization styles-19

3.4.2 The reason of forming the enrichment of high school organization-20

3.5 Development of High School Organization---- Branding-21

3.5.1 The definition of branding-21

3.5.2 The branding reflected in the Glee-21

3.6 Enlightenments from American High School Organizations-23

3.6.1 To integrate the construction of student organization and the main task of high school education-23

3.6.2 To guide the student organization to compete-24

3.6.3 To supply the funds guarantee for the development of student organization-24

3.6.4 To value the adviser’s role-25

4 CONCLUSION-26

REFERENCES-28

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS-30