On The Play Spirit Of Education

This essay explains the relation of education and play from the plight of educational practice and paying attention to children in the educational theory field. It puts forward a view that education is a kind of play from thing-in-itself angle, then builds up the theory system of education's aims , circumstances, process and teacher-student's relation through setting up a concept of "play Instruction".First, this essay investigates comprehensively the concepts of play and play spirit in the many fields of vision of China and Westward. It draws a conclusion that play should consist of specific play and abstract play spirit. Play spirit is liberal, comprehensible, showing, generating and conversational. Second, human is "play human being " because play is natural and spiritual basis on humankind's existence, play is yet children's existing way. Education which is an important part in the children's living should become teacher-student's play. The Writer lists several non-play-spirit phenomena in the education. For example, teaching play, informal play, teacher-student's unfreedom in the education, unequal "I-it" relation, lack of education process opened-up. However, all are due to modern social background, scientific and technological education, the limit of education-play theories. Nowadays, educational practice demands repay the play to children and education. At last, the essay raises education aim of " play human being", "play-field" education circumstances, generating and conversational education process that is "play Instruction", so that it can realize thing-in-itself incorporation of education and play, thus It gets rid of the plight of education.