Several Theory Issues Of Rousseau's Educational Thinking

This paper chooses Rousseau as the research point, primarily because Rousseau paid more attention to the children and the rights of children. With the modern society transforming greatly, people must face with a lot of social problems, for example, how to develop the educational effect to keep the nature of children, and not running off the ego.The paper is divided three parts. The first part includes the times of Rousseau, the composition of Emile and the characteristic of Rousseau's educational thought. Enlightenment influenced politics, economy, the culture and education of that time. For the composition of Emile, Rousseau experienced a series of courses. At the same time he still absorbed a lot of thought of many elder educators and made many efforts by himself. Rousseau's thought related with the saying of talent human rights, romanticism and naturalism.The second part primarily studies a few theories of Rousseau's educational thought. (1) Negative education. Rousseau set forth this kind of education because of good nature of human being and the need of children getting happiness and natural development of human being. The author sum up several characters of negative education by analyzing some typical examples. (2) The intellectual education and labor education. The author mainly analyses the content and some methods of the intellectual education. For pursuing the personal real independent position, children must accept the intellectual education and the labor education. (3) Moral education and the emotional education. The central content of moral is the relationship of human being, namely emotion. So the important task of moral education is how to understand and deal with all kinds of emotion. (4) Sex education. On the basis of the difference of sex, this part mainly analyzes the principle and the content of the women's education. Rousseau teaches us how to study education here. (5) Citizen education. There are a lot of thoughts on citizen education in Rousseau's other works, such as political economy, the public education of Genovese, considerations on the government of Poland. In the last of three works, Rousseau set forth his thinking on citizen education, which include the aims of the education and the national teacher of Poland and national education of Poland.The third part is the thesis's summary. The author would discuss two problems, the total evaluation towards Rousseau's educational thoughts and the influence on many countries of Occident. In addition, I also set forth two problems to be worthy studying: (1) the grading of age in the field of education. (2) How to pursue the freedom of human being in the field of education.