Exploration Of Cultivating Function Of One-hundred-year Chinese Language Education

By utilizing the research methods of content analysis, historical analysis and comparative analysis, this dissertation tends to explore, from the angles of "value estimation" and "fact estimation", the puzzle, problems and development arised by one-hundred-year long Chinese language education in the respect of facilitating the children's all-round development by vertical investigation and international comparison.This dissertation probes into the cultivating function of Chinese language education in four aspects: language programme aim, criterion of text selection for textbook, textbook content design and teaching of reading. With the effect of "department instruction perspective", "science perspective" and "context of revolution", the language programme aim, having gone through the stages from "saints' knowledge" to "for daily use", from political education to all-round development, tends to be evidently political-oriented. The Chinesetraditional criterion of text selection for textbook —"satisfactory in both language andcontent" represents as actual priority of political criterion. Researchers are confirmed that "multi-dimensional growth " is the logical starting point to establish the criterion of textselection, therefore, the "social life 'children 'culture" trinity mode of text selection should beconstructed. Patternized character, purified content, solo-achieved mode and magnificent narration in Chinese textbooks imply "social standard" educational perspective towards children. The Chinese language education featured with "theme preference", "rational dismemberment", "unpractical analysis" and "inflexible answer" can never develop and...