On Embody-perception Education

The Western logical reason and Eastern perception understanding are two basic ways of knowing world which are unity of opposites. The logical reason seeks the truth of the world along discrete routes of subjectivity and objectivity. The perception understanding takes the human as the center, and understands the inner world in a state that subjectivity and objectivity unify. After two understanding ways have experienced the ancient East and West's separation, also the modern westernization, in the voice of returning spiritual home, the perception understanding which points to the value, the meaning and the inner world regains the historical affirmation. Agrees with it, under the background of social reforming, the modern tool education which pays attention to the form is turning to the human-oriented education which pays attention to the inherent value.In this unprecedented education reform, the process and the method, the emotion attitude values become the important goal of the curriculum reform; the life vigor becomes the theme run through the educational activities; the educational practical exploration of experiential education, embody-perception teaching that focus on experience, rethinking and comprehension become beautiful scenery in education reform. But combing from the interrelated literature, the author discovered that, although it has acquired the rich achievement in the fields of theory and practice in exploring the inner world of experiential education and embody-perception teaching, it still has the problem of the border area fuzzily and the macroscopic disorderly in the vision from the educational principle. This research bases on the production and the promotion of the individual cultural life, investigates the perception understanding phenomenon in educational activities in terms of epistemology, proposes the concept of embody-perception education, constructs the theory of embody-perception education, and points to the educational activities in every aspect of subjective spirit from these. In view of the sense of perception understanding and the logical characteristic of the academic theory, embody-perception education uses the explaining phenomenology, education comprehension and theory speculation for the basic research method. It takes Chinese traditional philosophy, the non-rationalism, knowledge of sensing theory, the postmodern knowledge view, humanism psychology, the construction cognition theory and the brain science as theoretical foundation. The research specifically involves some basic questions such as the embody-perception's scientific principle, the concept and the history of embody-perception education, character and function, pattern and mechanism, situation and practice wisdom, etc.Embody-perception is the traditional superiority of Chinese wisdom, and it is the wonderful passage which circulates the meaning and inner world. On the aspect of philosophy, spirit refers in particular to the inner world phenomenon of the person opposite to material, including three levels such as psychology and emotion, moral consciousness, aesthetics and faith level and so on. It reflects human's essential characteristics and is the basic sign of being human. Meaning world is the form that the subject spirit taking outside. According to mean, symbol and inclination intensity in meaning system, it can divide into physical meaning, culture meaning and life meaning in proper order. The forming of individual cultural life is the process of internalizing and producing. That is the subject announces the meaning, produces the meaning and then surmounts the meaning, while condenses into individualized subjective spirit finally. This process cannot leave embody-perception——the understanding activity that the inner world of the subject reciprocates with the knowing target, via experiencing, consciousness achieves the new spiritual boundary. Also drawing support from the embody-perception, author had the following discrimination to the mechanism of it: comprehension is embody-perception's life connotation, image is embody-perception's consciousness content, hiding and circulation indicates the process of embody-perception activity.Embody-perception education refers to that on the basis of non-logical thinking way, via experience, perception to realize the life significance of object culture. And it is a kind of"adult"thought, way or activity of promoting individual spiritual boundary. As the educational thought and educational way, based on the traditional Eastern thinking mode, embody-perception education has penetrated the Chinese ancient education process early. Although the tool style of Confucianism and modern scientific diluted the color of embody-perception in education, the West has affirmed the non-rational cognition status by its unique way after the middle period of the 20th century. Depends on the Chinese nation's psychological line of defense, on the day of advocating humanism, embody-perception education has already started to be on the way of revival.Under the macroscopic field of vision, embody-perception education presents main characteristics such as internality, sensing, producing and individual, etc. Merging ordinary and main characteristic of embody-perception, comparing the obverse and reverse of cognition education, we may further observe the essence of education-----"culture rotating comprehension". It determines the noumenon function of embody-perception education-----the life meaning of culture. And then derives the basic functions as meaning of generating, creating culture, releasing the heart and moistening life, etc. The character and function of embody-perception education concentrated reflect the side of humanity and non-rational in pedagogy principle. The pedagogy principle should announce and state the laws of education; it also should represent the educational meaning. Embody-perception education theory is the subject's rational combing about embody-perception education on the basis of comprehensibility. It not only represents the educational meaning, but also a kind of"educational law"in situational meaning. In other words, embody-perception education theory is the important component of the pedagogy principle, also one of the bridges for putting up the pedagogy principle and educational teaching practice.Entering the intermediate stratification, the question regions that embody-perception education will research are mainly key element, the pattern, the mechanism and the situation, etc.Started from the nature of education's basic key element, embody-perception education gets the soft part in education's basic key element; those are educator's cultural life, growing people's cultural life and meaning. The main structure that the three forms conjugate with the rigid key element in education system is the bridge which connects the outside world and the internal world. It presents for the external form of embody-perception education-----experiential education which subjectivity and objectivity unified. The three key elements become the main structure themselves, and is a channel between the meaning and the spirit. It demonstrates embody-perception education's inherent pattern-----perception education. The mechanism of embody-perception education is its running process's basic scientific theory that displaying by the relationship of each key element. Under the push of para-life's surmounting and the tendency with individual life maturing, based on experience accumulating, led by guiding and supporting among the cultural lives to realize the renewal of the individual spiritual boundary.Embody-perception education situation has the moral characters of theory and practice concurrently. It connects two extremes of embody-perception education theory and practice. According to the gravity fixed position of educational objective, education situation can divide into cognitive education situation, meaning education situation and spiritual education situation. The value orientation of the latter both take the subject meaning and spiritual boundary as the center. Objective, fact knowledge serves to the subjective feelings such as emotion, attitude, will, etc and the sublimation of wisdom, moral character and creative concept. It has a trend of evoking the embody-perception cognition activity of growing people. These are all called embody-perception education situation. When setting up the embody-perception education situation, we not only pay attention to the related psychological atmosphere and the physical environment covered with subjective feeling, but also attach importance to embody-perception's shot point--prototype, and grasp the accident embody-perception situation. Particularly, on one hand, it should be devoted to the construction of basic situation such as culture situation of the campus, community education situation etc. And play its function of unobtrusively influence. On the other hand, it will also construct the embody-perception situation in class, build experiential education situation and urge the growing people's embody-perception cognition activity as possible as we can.Embody-perception education situation leads us to come into microscopic field-----the practical wisdom of embody-perception education. Here, the life vigor stimulated by"the new elementary education", and people's whole development chased by"situational education"all soak the idea of embody-perception. The practical exploration of experiential education and embody-perception teaching widens the passage for the individual leading to the inner world. The events or cases described here include your own meaning of embody-perception potentially. As"the stones from other hills", the introspection of the subject and the scholar's impressions are helpful to the realization of the meaning. And this is also the result which the embody-perception education research is expected: initiating your comprehension from my thought, inspiring your wisdom from the practical wisdom, and sharing the fragrance and happiness in growing people's inner world at the process of us entering the embody-perception education.