Studies On Westernization Industrial Education

Two Opium War defeat, greatly shocked the hearts of the Chinese people. China reached the crossroads of history, and the Dissemination of Western Astronomy Westernization Group initiative to force the rich to the wise choice of the Modernization of this road. Westernization Group as a product of industrial revitalization, and the cause of Westernization required for the training of scientific and technological personnel to study the "Western technology" as the main content Industrial School began to come out.Qing government to lower the center of gravity of power, most of Westernization Group is the central authority or the master of certain lands. The expansion of real power provide the promotion of development of industrial and education; true feelings made Westernization Group had a doubt of the excellence traditional Chinese culture, and do the psychological preparation to accept Western culture pragmatic,advocating change, a sense of historical mission, and other characteristics of Westernization Group laid the ideological foundation for the implementation of education reform. The aggression of foreign capitalist made Westernization Group had a strong sense of crisis and sense of urgency; the development of Westernization Industries brought the urgent need for specialized technical personnel; the objective requirements of Westernization Group itself duties and the practical needs of safeguard their own interests is also one of the motive reasons for founding education and industries; Traditional"Confucian" thinking on education, made the Westernization Group formed a sure understanding of the Industrial Education. Industrial education have indicated the changes that China's education from the traditional useless educational to focus on practical in modern education, it is bright spot of the education of the late Qing Dynasty in China, and it is the major the pilot and prelude of the modern vocational education.Westernization Group industrial projects schools can generally be divided into two stages: pre-war Sino-Japanese and after Sino-Japanese war. The Qing government in more than 30 years founded more than 20 Industrial Education School, the majority concentrated in the coastal cities at the forefront. Westernization Industrial School can be divided into telegram School, Medical School, Railway School,Enginnering School, and other types. Industrial education in the teaching of organizational gave up former system of individual teaching a class teaching system, mainly learning content was not "The History of Study", but the modern Western scientific and technological knowledge. It showed the mixed of the old and new courses, the convergence of Chinese and Western colors. Westernization Industrial School courses generally included three categories: First, cultural foundation classes, and the second was the basis of professional courses, and the third was specialized (including training). There were also foreign language classes. Outstanding skills training was a different important feature of education from other industry education, it was the key decision to succeed in Industrial Educations. In early days Westernization Group founded Industrial Schools almost all hired foreign teachers, it was to ease the pressure on the acute shortage of teachers, it had also brought a lot of problems. The establishment of Westernization Industrial Education teachers were not only qualified and students were equally rare, students'generally professional quality were not high. Westernization Industrial Education was a grassroots, mostly management system was not sound. Financial constraints in Westernization Industrial School was a common, one of the factors affecting its development, there was no clear financial system in these schools Westernization Industrial thought: China should obey the western education approach; pragmatism of science and technology; the new style purpose of cultivating talent. The initial presentation and the creation of the first advocacy Industrial School made by Industrial Education Westernization Group, was the source of thinking of Modern Industrial Education, it provided the ideological foundation for the later the introduction of a deeper level of industry education and Industrial School for the further development. Westernization Group of Industries'practice mainly about promoting educational with an educational institution, provided advice for the Industrial Education; sending overseas; translating modern Western science and technology books, pay attentions to the talent ones of the industrial, and so on.Westernization Industrial Education arose from a special social , political and economic background, it had its distinctive features compared with western vocational education, or other types of education: the government's administrative power was the mainstay, led all sectors of the community; from the beginning of emphasis on the military's personnel related training to the expansion of al kinds including laboring, farming, mining and merchant;pioneering and transitional characteristics depend on the Westernization institutions. However, by the restrictions of the specific historical conditions, and its limitations: the number was small so was the scale, did not form a system; the learning content were limited to the level of the Western artifacts; overall educational level was not high; caused by emergency and hygiene, lacks of overall planning and strategic objectives; there was different understanding of the women Industrial Education, and implement was ineffective.Westernization Industrial education in this particular period of history, from none to have the initial development, although there were many deficiencies and shortcomings, its achievements and influence were obvious. China eventually established the modern industrial system; the aim Westernization pursued, the contents of Industrial Education,the practice of industry education, all led the trend of the development of education, and embodied China's traditional education transited into the new modern type, and promoted China's modernization of education. It also played a catalytic role on the Modernization of China's social history, made a trend of social elite diversification, it laid a foundation for China's early modern industrial, and trained a number of emergency talents with specialized skills, attentions to Westernization talents made the morale of society civilized.Westernization Industrial Education achieved to the target with a large extent and they had completed the mission, the general situation is a success. In a certain sense, although the Westernization School was small in scale, the number of graduating students were limited, the distribution has not fully started sponsoring, the actives lacked of permanence; it conformed to the development trend of history, broke the deadlock in the tradition feudal of education, to a certain extent, it brought updates on personnel training goals, vocational education had firstly changed its traditional vassal status of education, accessed to an independent and got initial development, and promote the process the modernization of China's education in history. The role of Westernization Group played in the industrial projects in education was set by the advocates, supporters and of the presiding officer with vision gathered in one person, these figures also played an important role in the process of China Modernization.