The Study Of The Rural Education In Southern Jiangsu From 1905 To 1937

The practice of more than a century of the society's development shows the difficulty point forChina to realize modernization is in countryside.Agriculture,farmer and rural have always been theweak links and key elements for Chinese modernize construction.How to realize the modernization ofAgriculture-farmer-countryside has become one of the most important and urgent tasks now.Under theguidance of dialectical materialism and historical materialism,this thesis focuses on rural education inSouthern Jiangsu from 1905 to 1937 with referring to history,sociology,culturology,economics andmany other theories,using regional researches,literature analyzes,oral interviews,case investigations,historic compares and other methods.It analyzes the rural education modernization developingskeleton in condition of relatively well-developed economic,society and culture,tries to reveal itsintrinsic logics and basic characteristics,and deeply investigates the complex interaction betweeneducation and region modernization developing.This paper is organized in three parts:the preface,themain body and the conclusion.In the preface,the thesis briefly describes the origin of the subject,the field of view,and researchmethodology;it also defines the conceptions,time period and region scope of this thesis.The main body is divided into six chapters.The first chapter,from the overall historical perspective,describes the ecological environment oftraditional rural education in Southern Jiangsu,analyzes the superior natural environment in SouthernJiangsu,the active commodity economy,the strong traditional culture,the multiple educationalresources and their possible impacts on modernization of rural education.The second chapter,from the vertical historic field of view,discusses the development of ruraleducation in Southern Jiangsu of 1905 to 1937.In accordance with the education purposes andcharacteristics of the situation,it will be divided into three stages:the initial stage from 1905 to 1911,the developing stage from 1912 to 1927,and the stagnant and reflective stage from 1928 to 1937.Chapterâ…¢and chapterâ…£are the main part of the thesis.We focus on investigating the effect oftraditional and modernize on the process of modernization in rural education.As for the traditionalculture study,we select rural gentry,the villages and the modern teachers as a starting point.Throughtheir activity and cultural selection,we describe the complex role that traditional education playsduring the process of rural education modernization in South Jiangsu.The modernization study isdescribed in Chapterâ…£.With the industrialization and urbanization of towns in Southern Jiangsu,it, on the one hand,promotes the modernization of rural education development,but result in gapsbetween urban and rural areas on the other hand,which then leads to the confliction between them.Therefore,in the"traditional-modem"structure,the Southern Jiangsu rural education forms old andnew mixed"Ban Jie zi"modem feature.Chapterâ…¤,from the point of view of modernization development,analyzes the rural educationactivity of Southern Jiangsu.It points out that this is the modernization efforts made by parts ofintellectuals with deep humanistic concern.They forsake the government modernization way whichfocus on industrialization and centralize on city,start form the rural society,use education as approach,try to seek the modernization of China as a whole.The Southern Jiangsu rural education activity hashad an important impact on the development of rural education in China at that time as well as today.The sixth chapter,through the comparison of rural education modernization between the NorthernJiangsu and Southern Jiangsu,tries to discuss the regional cultural characteristics and geographicenvironment factors of rural education modernization.After compare among the education ecosystems,regional cultural character and the process of modernization,it shows the local advantages ofmodernization of rural education in Southern Jiangsu more clearly,as well as the positive interactionsamong education,economic,cultural and other social systems.The conclusion,the final part,summaries the basic characteristics of Southern Jiangsu ruraleducation modernization in 1905-1937,points out that during the process of Southern Jiangsu ruraleducation modernization,we should take advantage of the profound Chinese culture and traditions,and actively adapt to the rapid changes in the modernization,realize the development of education andregional economy coordinately,so as to provide a rich educational resources and necessary historicand cultural reference for the development of Chinese modernization.