The Research Of The Social Education In The Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Area During The Anti-Japanese War

From the perspective of ideological and political education, this dissertation studies the social education in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border area during the anti-Japanese war. The research is undertaken by using historical approach, literature review, combination of academic analysis and empirical analysis, and comprehensive multidisciplinary analysis. The Data of Social Education in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Area (I, II) and Liberation Daily (1941-1945) are used as the central literature. The documents related to the Party, collected works and anthologies of the Party’s leadership, memoirs and works of experts and scholars are used as the basic literature. At first the related literature is collected, arranged and read carefully to have a comprehensive knowledge of the social education in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border area during the anti-Japanese war. After that, the principles of modern ideological and political education are used to understand the social education in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border area and reveal the most essential and brilliant points in the social education which are used as the main content of the dissertation. These points are deeply analyzed and demonstrate, which involves the purposes, measures, vehicles and values of social education. And then the achievements of social education are analyzed. In the end, the dissertation compares the social education in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border area during the anti-Japanese war and the social education in the new era, and summarizes the precious experiences and enlightenment of masses’ideological and political education in the social education in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border area.The first chapter is introduction which is about the background of the subject selection and the significance of research. At first, this chapter introduces the dissertation’s content and research methodology, and then sorts out and discusses the central literature and the basic literature. Then it analyzes specifically the present research on the social education in the border area and discusses the perspective, achievements and deficiencies of the present research and points out inspiration of the research achievements to the writing of this dissertation. In the end it points out the new viewpoints and deficiencies of this dissertation.The second chapter is entitled "The General Analysis of the Social Education in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Area". The general understanding of the social education in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border area during the anti-Japanese war is the basis of the dissertation. This chapter summarizes the basic framework of the social education, i.e. the social education’s conception, targets, content, purpose, methods, implemental organizations, textbooks and teacher organization form. It introduces the general historical course of social education and analyzes historical origin and actual reasons and reveals inherent necessity of social education. Then it analyzes the social education in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border area by using modern ideological and political pedagogy and supposes that the social education in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border area is a successful masses’ideological and political education campaign and a sign of maturation of masses’ideological and political education.The third chapter is entitled "Being in Need and Volunteering: the Principle of the Social Education in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Area". Insisting in the principle of being in need and volunteering is the most important and direct reason for success of the social education in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border area. This chapter elaborates the formation and development of the principle of being in need and volunteering and analyzes implementation situation and effect of the principle of being in need and volunteering from the perspective of educational organization form and educational content. This chapter also discusses scientificity of the principle by using psychology, pedagogy and ideological and political pedagogy and explains the reason for sticking to the principle in social education.The fourth chapter is entitled "Textbooks and New Yangko:the Vehicle of the Social Education in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Area". Efficient use of educational vehicle is an important reason for the social education to be successful. This chapter focuses on how to effectively carry out ideological and political education by using textbooks and new Yangko. This chapter analyzes the content and improvement course of textbooks and new Yangko and reveals how textbooks and new Yangko for social education were improved by adding emotional and political elements and how the content of social education integrated effectively into textbooks and new Yangko people loved to see and hear. This chapter also reveals how the vehicle promoted the interaction between subject and object of ideological and political education and demonstrates the function and practical embodiment of the vehicle which conducts the content of ideological and political education.The fifth chapter is entitled "The Effect of the Social Education in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Area". Educational effect reflects directly how successful the social education in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border area is. It responds to and proves educational principle and educational vehicle, and it is also the basis of argument in the end of the dissertation. The social education had four goals:literacy education, anti-Japanese war mobilization, altering old customs and habits and political recognition. This chapter analyzes thoroughly difficulty of achieving the four goals and describes the actual effect of achieving them. The contrast the difficulty and effect shows achievement didn’t come easily and the social education was effective. The contradiction between educator and educatee reflected contradiction between revolution and masses’living which was one of causes of the problems in the social education. On the other hand, the social education eliminated the contradiction and integrated revolution with masses’living, which was the main reason of the success of social education.The sixth chapter is entitled "The Historical Experiences of the Social Education in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Area and Its Enlightenment to Modern Ideological and Political Education". Revelation of the experiences of the social education in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border area and its enlightenment to modern ideological and political education is the ultimate aim of this dissertation. This part compares ideological and political education during the anti-Japanese war and ideological and political education in the new era and summarizes positive and negative experiences of the social education in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border area and reveals its enlightenment to modern masses’ ideological and political education.