A Teaching Theory Reflection On Humanities Knowledge

Humanities knowledge is an independent type of knowledge which is juxtaposed by natural knowledge and social knowledge. Take Chinese-language teaching as an example, humanities knowledge exists in two kinds of state: "tool theory" and "pan- humanities theory". Based on "tool theory", teachers always consider Chinese-language knowledge teaching as a instrument-knowledge teaching, teachers always make the writing class a "texts training session", such as expression skills, writing technique and so on.Based on "pan- humanities theory", teachers make a Chinese class become a "moral education class". Both ways of teaching cover the uniqueness of humanities knowledge up, and make the nature of humanistic of the Chinese language curriculum in a suspended state and the goal of humanities education unreachable.Humanities knowledge can be divided into general humanities knowledge and special humanities knowledge. General humanities knowledge includes humanized natural knowledge and social knowledge. From this view, almost all human knowledge has a humanity property. While special humanities knowledge comes from individuals' emotion, experiences and appreciations of the beauty. From the view of its content, humanities knowledge is relevant with life significant and value; From the view of knowledge subject, humanities knowledge is personal knowledge; From the view of knowledge area, humanities knowledge is a kind of poetic knowledge. Because of the internal generation process, humanities knowledge has the features of timeliness, metaphoric, life and aesthetic. Teaching of Humanities knowledge is to provide a scene where the possibilities of human beings could be displayed. Teaching of Humanities knowledge is also to make both teachers and students meet in a historical context; this meeting is not only a acquirement of knowledge, but also an achievement of life consciousness, an achievement of emotion investment and an achievement of spiritual awakening. The fundamental condition of teaching of humanities knowledge is to emphasis the "particularity". Standing at a learners' point, learning conditions include clear self-awareness, rich personal experiences, deep personal experiences and continuous reflections. Standing at a teachers' point, teaching conditions include teachers' life experiences, the uniqueness of the teaching situation, the generating of teaching process and individuation of teaching approaches.Teaching of Humanities knowledge is a kind of rouse education, it is not only due to the belief of"humanities knowledge cannot be taught", but also due to its internal generation process. Students mainly through three modes for autonomous learning: Gnosis learning, Experiential learning and Reflective learning. These three ways are mutually involved and mutual independent. Gnosis learning is to make the students learn the aesthetic by having students go into the"words layer"of the text; Experience learning is to let students go into the"imagination layer"of the texts and reconstruct the scheme of humanities knowledge by imagination. While reflective learning is to let students go outside of the semantic layer of the texts and obtain the self significance constructions. Teachers teach students by means of empathy of experiential teaching; Details-Creating teaching is a humanities knowledge teaching process that the teachers and the students making dialogues with the texts by using describing language, and making imagination to create the details of the text by metaphorical thinking. Aesthetic-Appreciating teaching is a aesthetic activity that the teachers lead the students to feel, understand and judge the text.