A Study Of Western Technical Education Thoughts From The 18th Century To The Early 20th Century

For today’s society, the impact of technology on human’s daily life is becoming more and more profound. Understanding technology and having technological literacy are becoming indispensable to modern people’s basic quality. In order to better enhance the technological literacy of citizens, the world set off a new round of technology education reform.In China, the technology disciplines as a developing discipline, urgently needs some technology educational ideologyy to provide guidance. In the history of Western technology educational ideologyy, Rousseau, Pestalozzi, Dewey, Whitehead and other technology education thinker, emerged from 18th century to the early 20th century, they revealed the general, fundamental and regular things of technology education which could provide theoretical support and practical guides for our country’s technology deucation.Based on this, this study attempts to take the historical materialism as the guidance. In the second technological revolution node is divided into two parts:the technology educational ideology from 18th century to the begining 19th century and the technology educational ideology from late 19th century to early 20th century. Background analysis from the revolution, the philosophy of technology and technology education technology development point of view. From the perspective of technological revolution, technological philosophy and technical education development background analysis. Rousseau, Pestalozzi, Huxley, Dewey, Whitehead thought in-depth analysis of the mainstream position. Summed up in the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century western technology education with respect for nature, advocacy for children’s standard; the combination of labor and technology education; pay close attention to the cultivation of action ability and practical ability of students; pay attention to family education; technological learning content is relatively simple. In the late 19th century to at the beginning of the 20th century western technology education with emphasis on technology education in basic education; pays more attention to the connection of technology education and social life; emphasize the technology curriculum and other curriculum links; follow the stage and continuity of physical and mental development of students; pay attention to the cultivation of teachers.In this study, based on the 18th to the beginning of the 20th the Western ideas of education researches concluded that during this period:technical education ideas began to form a special research field; the emergence of a large number of technology educator, such as naturalism, pragmatism and so on; technical education thinkers begin to value and explore the rule of technology education, influence the development of technical education and occupation education. At the same time, put forward in 18th to the beginning of 20th the western education ideology enlightenment to the current education in China:Pay attention to the unity of educational technology development value and instrumental value; strengthen the contact of children experience to construct and life; to establish a system of technology education curriculum system; realize the integration of internal resources and external resources.