Student Centered Pedagogy Change In The Early 20th Century

Teaching method is not only the teacher's exterior behavior of teaching activity, it also reflects the teacher's teaching idea. The teaching method one chooses is related to his/her idea on factors such as activity, etc. Teachers with different studies sight or course sight may adopt different teaching methods, the course reform of the new century emphasizes autonomous cooperative learning way in Chinese teaching, and the choice of teaching method should be helpful for such a learning way to form. Now it has put forward new challenge to most Chinese teachers. Actually, the Project method and Dalton plan in curriculum reform in the early 20th century have offered us certain experiences on how to respond to such a challenge . These teaching methods, not only on course concept, but also on specific operation method, have great consistency with current teaching reform. Therefore, retrospecting the history and evaluating gain and loss of course reform can help us perform the current course reform smoothly.The paper consists of four parts.Chapter One retrospects Chinese teaching method development briefly in last century .For 100 years Chinese teaching has been swaying between "teaching" and "study", and at the beginning of both 20th century and 21st century , there is a teaching reform that focus on students' studying . They are similar on course concept and social background, the way of the reform carrys out, as well as connections to course reform of their time; however, they are different on ideas on teaching organization and transform scopes and the historical time in which they carry out. Meanwhile, this chapter also makes a preliminary analysis of the social background of student-based pedagogy reform.Chapter two states specific content of student-based pedagogy reform at the beginning of 20th century. It includes the whole story about experiment of Project method and Dalton plan in Chinese, such as its sponsor, its basic teaching pattern and characteristic. At the same time, this chapter also give some cases in the specific enforcement in teaching, and analyzed its influence on teaching practice.Chapter Three summarizes and analyzes preliminarily the crises in student-based pedagogy reform of 20th century, and systematic reviewed the history of this reform, then give some suggestions for current curriculum reform.