The Investigation Of Teacher Community's Process Of Modernization At The Turn Of Late Qing Dynasty And Early Republic Of China

The period during late Qing dynasty and early Republic of China is the transitional period of the Chinese society from tradition to modern.During this period,along with beginning and development of modern education,it appeared a modern significant professional community-teacher community.Considering its origin,the teacher groups in the new-style school in late Qing Dynasty can be divided into three types: homecoming students, old-style literators,people between two former kinds and students who graduated from normal university . Considering its academic background, they also can be divided into three types: the traditional Confucianism, the practical knowledge as well as the western learning. Considering its consciousness, they can be divided into national consciousness, government consciousness and transformation consciousness. Considering its activities, besides the teaching, their official duty work mainly was translation, the edition of section books; and their social activities included starting the revolution propaganda, the participation in governmental affairs and so on.In the growth of this teacher community,there are some obvious transitional traits on it. Firstly considering the structure, the teacher groups presented the feature that new-style teachers and old-style teachers coexisted. Secondly considering the consciousness,it was contradictory. Thirdly, the tendency of the groups'behaves were inclining to the new things. The progressive teacher is the most active part of the group, their words, deeds and manner directly or indirectly affected other teachers, therefore, the groups'behaves were inclining to the new things.Analysis this phenomenon can have an objective understanding about the particularity and the complexity of society transitional time.