Modern Value Of Yan Yangchu's Country Education Practice

Leading several hundreds of Doctors who came back from abroad, Yan Yangchu, the world-famous educator of mass entered upon a vigorous campaign for mass education in Ding county of Hebei province where "Ding County Experiment Area was established. Mr Yan creatively put forward the countermeasures and concrete implementation way of reform specific to the true condition of Chinese farmers and the existing problems, starting from the social reality of China's rural area. This thesis analyses the contribution made by Mr Yan to the country education during the course of China moving to modernization and the tremendous successive value of his great exploration of practice in farmer education to implement vocational education on farmers oriented by modernization. However, today's rural area, fanners, agriculture can't be named on the same day with those in 1920-30s. This thesis focuses on sorting and analyzing country education ideas and practice of Yan in 1920-30s, at the same time of inheriting which, we must provide the framers with vocational education service practicably and effectively, based on the actual conditions of today's rural area and farmers, keeping the aim of modernization and being rich in mind.This thesis contains three parts with the following main ideas:The first part relates the general of mass education ideas of Yan. Firstly the origin of the concept mass education, coolie education is disclosed according to the reasons why Yan established mass education cause. Secondly to demonstrate that mass education is never to be education for the poor or farmer education by way of analyzing the profound of common and mass in mass education. Then to summarize the main idea of Yan's mass education by the three way of school, family and society as well as the four educations of literature, living, sanitary and citizen proposed by Yan according to the four social evils ignorance, weakness, poverty and selfishness existing the rural society of Ding county at that time.The second part is to unscramble Yan's mass education idea. This part is the key of this thesis, acting as link between the preceding and the following. It fully describe and analyze the four evils and problems of rural area, farmer and agriculture occurring in the social transformation period so as to enable people to know the development of Chinese rural society clearly through such a window and to pierce the enormous modern value ofnative characteristic and integral interlocking view of Yan's mass education idea to develop the modern farmer vocational education. It also clarifies the historic restriction of Yan's mass education in the new era.The third part covers the enlightenment of Yan's mass education on modern fanner vocational education. This is the core part of the thesis and also the innovative part of the thesis. It summarizes the profound connotation of farmer vocational education by analyzing the difference between farmer education and vocational education and rural area vocational education. Then conclude that to develop farmer vocational education today shall inherit the huge experience of success in Yan's mass education practice and country construction based on the modern value analysis of his mass education in the second part. Finally specific to the era limitation of Yan's mass education and according to the actual condition of present farmer vocational education and the actual problems of the farmers and rural areas today, it points out that Yan's idea shall be developed at the same pace of the age and also offers some superficial suggestions to the development of China's farmer vocational education today.