Xu Heng Psychological Education Research

It has being thousands of years for our country to be engaged in the education activity. During the time, educational psychology has raised concerns, what having a reflection to this such as works, word and actions form numerous thinkers. It is certain that, if we"scoop out"the relevant thought among which, what grate advantages will be! That is to say, it will provide theoretic instruction and practical material for Chinese education psychological research and practice. But for such a long time, domestic educational psychologists have been looking forward to abroad, be not to study from Soviet, be attach with western countries, is the moon turns perfect round in foreign countries? Seldom of people pay attention to traditional educational psychological thoughts of our own country. Just from the 80's last century, with the preparation and organization of elder generation psychologists, such as Pan Shu and Gao Jue-fu, more and more scholars do researches on the realm, of course have been made more and more results. Among whom is my tutor: Professor Yan Guo-cai.Xu Heng, an outstanding educator, statesman and thinker in the 13th century, propagated Confucianism and Zhu—Cheng's idealist philosophies during the hard times when the national culture declined after many years wars. He made a compromise of Zhu and Cheng's ideals and became an intermediate link in the development of the theories from Zhu Xi and Wang Yang-ming.The paper makes a systematic exposition of Xu Heng's educational psychological thoughts. First of all, we introduce his life history, study and teaching history, which include the research experiences and the main works. Then analyze Xu Heng's education psychological thought in four aspects. Firstly, we expatiate two basic viewpoints of education psychological thoughts:"Dualism of human's nature"and"the discussion of acquiring knowledge inborn". Secondly, we summarizes learning psychological thoughts of Xu Heng. This part includes the significance of learning, the course, the psychological states in study, and the principles and methods of learning. Thirdly, we probe into Xu Heng's moral educational thoughts, which include three parts: the connotation and importance of moral education, the course, which is the four phases of moral education, also the principles and methods in moral education. Finally, we dig for differential psychological and teacher psychological thoughts of Xu Heng, including the expression of differential psychology and the claiming of"teaching accords with the individual differences", among teacher psychological thoughts, we display the social value and character of teacher.