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For Well-being And Well-becoming Of The Children

Posted on:2007-02-28Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:H S XiongFull Text:PDF
GTID:1117360182489598Subject:Principles of Education
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In the early 1990's, the innovation test of "Pleasure Education" and "Joy Education" appeared in the foundation education of China, which called for more cares to the children and providing a happy childhood to the children. The researches about life education and living education are extrusive in recent years, which emphasize that the education shall care more about life and return to the living and pursue the eudemonia of the children. There is a common ground about these researches, which is paying more attention to the value of education process and caring for the current happy life of the children. These new ideas and concepts are new and fresh to our eyes, however, they are discrepant with current education theory of China. Thus, I am considering: What is the relationship between the pursuit of Children's happy life and education objective? Is it possible to make the happy education process to be a pursuit of education objective?After long term thinking, I found that the children's realistic life could never be a education objective under the current theory framework of Chinese education objective, the education process could only be a measure and approach to finalize the education objective, all these because that the Chinese education objective is defined as "The general design and provision of quality and specification about the educatee", with a hidden pivotal precondition, which means education objective is cultivating the human and cultivating the human is the only objective of education. All these have brought an unexpected serious problem. Firstly, human cultivation is a good thing, yet, when it becomes the unique education objective, the others will be only the measures and tools, the special rule and unique value of education process will be depreciated artificially. Secondly, for the quick success and instant benefit to the objective, many kinds of measures have been adopted, therewith, the learning activity full of lively and rich & colorful and happy experiences has been distorted to a bald, coercive and implemental education process. Thirdly, all these have induced the lack of student's main body, lack of children and lack of human care during the education process, which will bring serial suffering and adversity to the children. Although many educationist had put forward criticisms and innovation proposals in modern history, because of weak force or hypercorrection, in a word, the problems have not been solved essentially.What is the reason for this? I make a doubt audaciously, is it because of the lack of our education objective itself? It is a root of the problem that the education objective only localize in the final perfect result of human cultivation but not advance any requirements of lively and powerful education process, guided by this objective, the education practice often lean to the knowledge teaching andtechnology training but care little to the eudemonia of the children. The problem is relevant with the connatural limitation of education objective itself.I make a research and composition after thinking about the problems, which includes analyzing the advantage and disadvantage of expression method of different education objective, thinking how to repair the limitation of current education objective and define the happy process and expand the education objective so as to allow the eudemonia of the children, and discussing the new education objection construction to meet for the education actuality in China.This study has made conclusions as follows after analysis: The education objective shall be a general design and provision to the perfect effect from two ways of process and result in society. The education objective shall consist of the eudemonia of the children and all round development, the front shall describe the process and the latter specify the results, they both have unique value without primary and secondary division, but complementary and penetrative and stimulative to each other. This new education objective is different from the traditional education objective which only cares for result, and also different form the Dewey education theory which only points to process, it is a combination and surmounting of two ideas, the eudemonia pursuit is the basis of all round development for the Marxism, the new education objective accords with the basic spirit of this theory much more.
Keywords/Search Tags:Eudemonia of the children, All round development, Education objective, New Education objective, Expression method of education objective, Quality education
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