Studies On The Group Education

The group education aims at promoting the grouplization and socialization process of individuals, fostering the social behaviors and traits advantageous to people, thus making the educated can correctly cope with the interpersonal relations, grow accustomed to social environment, and live a harmonious social life. The basic content of group education is social group consciousness including interpersonal relations, group life, welfare of the masses, public morals, rights and duties of citizen; good quality and self-control including service, giving aid, cooperation, unity, fraternity; correct social attitude including the active launch of beneficial activities, the cultivation of mass character, the observance of group disciplines, the abidance by group requirements, the completion of tasks assigned by the group and others. Group education is mainly implemented through the practice in school and social life.Group education flourished in Europe at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, and was introduced into china. Many famous educators in the modern times were engaged in integrating group education and Chinese realities, and conducted beneficial teaching exploration. Because of various reasons, the group education gradually disappeared in the contemporary advanced education. The introduction of the paper looks back from the development process of group education, and sums up the status quo of its research and development. The first part explore problems involved the definition, connotation, main sections and significance of group education. The second part elaborates the status quo of modern advanced education, and all kinds of problems caused by the absence of group education in advanced education system. The third part expounds ways to proceed with group education from the aspects of the establishment of group consciousness, the training of group adaptability, cultivation of social characteristics, thus putting forward with a feasible means of reviving the group education in the advanced education in modern china.