Returning To Life: The Historical Transformation Of Educational Paradigm

Paradigm is the radical approach for studying the scientific development of education. The transformation of the educational paradigm presents the relationship of confrontation, interdependence and surpassing of the new educational paradigm with the old ones in their process of development. By investigating the educational development as more as their historical and practical significance, they can all be cleanly demonstrated. The transformation of paradigm at present occurs between the educational paradigm of the modern scientific world and the past-modern life world education. Which shows an inclination of the returning to the life-world. This dissertation tries to expatiate the historical background, occurrence, to expose the nature, theme, significance, direction and its objective invisibility, and to provide the possible contents, they structure and practice model of the new educational paradigm by criticizing the confrontation of the old educational paradigm and the new ones, so as to offer some help for the present educational practice.The dissertation paper is composed of the preface and the main body. The former one introduces the researching background the researching theme, the researching standpoint and the approaches.The latter one consists of five parts. The first part mainly deals with the definition of the conceptions. In this part, the education is set into two different vision fields of both modern and post-modern. They are researched under the two themes of scientific world and life world in order to gain some scientific and reasonable definitions.The second part shows the analysis of the causes of the transformation of educational paradigm. The main point includes: The theoretical transformation of the scientific paradigm and philosophical paradigm to the life-world leads to a transformation of the educational paradigm. The more direct and radical cause might be that the alienation of the modern scientific education from the life-world has already become the serious blockage to the educational development, which forces it to return to the life-world, and to research its significant basis and value sources.The third examines Russel and Dewey as the examples for the returning to thelife-world of education. Russel discovery of the education to the genuine man, Dewei's stress on the educational life, show their inner coherence, that is, the affirmation and respect to the human value, which are the very purposes of the returning to the life-world of the education.The forth part is the integration of the pervious part which collectively exposes the nature, significance and possible inclination of the paradigm transformation of education. The main points include: If the educational paradigm transformation tries to relies its change from the modern scientific world to the life-world, if has to fulfill the following tasks: First, change the system from a closed one to an open one; secondly, change the process from running for nature to experience; thirdly, change the cultivation mode from training rational-man to growing-man.The key points dwells in the forth and fifth parts. The fifth part combines the theoretical points of the transformation of the educational paradigms. The effective strategies are as follow: concerning with educational life state; increasingly improving the educational life standards, seeking and re-building the educational life significance, and creating educational life arts.