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Theoretical Probing And Epoch Construction Of The Contemporary Character And Personality Education

Posted on:2007-05-22Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:H L LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:1117360185451909Subject:Principles of Education
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"Personality" or "character" is a concept that it has been widely used, but there exists its different meanings between Chinese culture and western culture, as well as among different subjects. Although studies of character and personality education (CPE) do not lack in our country currently, personality is not researched deeply and roundly from educational standpoint, and there exist phenomena that the cognition of CPE is mist in theoretic researches and concrete practices. At present, transformation of society and culture is speeding up in our country. On the one hand, personality of people is transforming from the tradition to modernize, on the other hand, there have been many personality crises. It is from this historical background that the thesis deals with contemporary CPE.The introduction part of the thesis analyses the background of the research, introduces relevant researches and inspects some problems in them, Interpretation the research's purpose and significance.In the second chapter "personality concept and definition", review history of "personality" at first; Then inspect the definition of personality in some subjects; Finally, sum up the feature of personality, reveal the essence of personality, and from the standpoint of education establish definition of personality. Personality is integration that has two sides, a individual side and a common side, a level side and a integral side, a stable side and a metabolic side, a classical side and a modern side. Personality is a product of culture. Fundamentally, Personality is the socio-cultural identity of everybody that condense and embodies their spirits and behavior modes. Everybody' personality decides his attitude to life and how he treats oneself, other people, social and all kind of thing. Respecting the structure and components of personality, it is an organized, structured system of inner dimension and outer dimension. inner-level is a mixture of self-awareness, needs and motives (such as pro-motivation and achievement motivation) , feelings, will, and relatively stable values, ethics and ideology, ethos; outer-level be composed of individual image and behavior patterns.The third part of the thesis is about definition and positioning of contemporary CPE. Personality is a continuum of inner spirit and outer behavior. The continuum materializes some personality traits. Contemporary CPE is the activity of fostering and developing these personality traits that are needed in our times. Specifically, it liberates, improves, upgrades and perfects each child's personality. Contemporary CPE is innovation, transformation, succession and development of the traditional CPE in china. It is necessary component of comprehensive development education. It cultivates Chinese Citizenship personality in the 21st century.The fourth Part is about educational place and function in the transformation of culture and personality, which clarifies the meaning of culture and cultural transformation, explores the essence of current social and cultural transformation, analysis and research further educational place and function in the transformation of culture and personality. Contemporary cultural transformation is a double composite process, the essence of which is the conversion of partial culture of the agricultural civilization to partial culture of industrial civilization and partial culture of industrial civilization to partial postmodern culture. There exist some differences between modern culture and postmodern culture, but they are not antagonistic relationship and that is rather coexist, and postmodern culture is a continuation of modern culture. Personality transformation is an integral part of social and cultural transformation, but also is the engine of social and cultural transformation. Education is intermediary and engine. It improves personality in cultural transformation.The fifth part of the thesis is about research on goal of contemporary CPE. Chinese new ideal personality is a whole in 21st century. it is described from different angles as modern personality, healthy personality, and moral personality. In the part, the thesis expound three goals of contemporary CPE, which is modern personality, healthy personality and moral personality at first, then analyses theirs meaning and mutual relations. Finally, demonstrates the relationship between goal of contemporary CPE and the traditional personality, propound the basic way to goal of contemporary CPE that we ought to transform traditional personality creatively.The sixth part is content of contemporary CPE. In the cultural transition, "the order of values " has occurred displacement. The reconstruction of "the order of values " is an urgent task at present. On the basis of needs of the times, the part confirms newly contents of contemporary CPE including the awakening self-awareness, maturing heart, cultivating values and attitude, and nurturing behavior patterns.The seventh part of the thesis is about principles and strategy of contemporary CPE. In the cultural transition, compared with the traditional cultural environment, current cultural content and form is diversity and uncertainty in china. In view of this social reality, and based on the personality development law, the thesis demonstrates five basic principles and six strategies of contemporary CPE in this part.
Keywords/Search Tags:Personality, Contemporary education, Character and personality education, Cultural transformation, Ideal personality
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