New Culture Movement Period, The Introduction Of Foreign Modern Education Thought And Its Influence

In the19th century and the early20th century, America’s ’progressive education movement’and the’new education movement’ in Europe open the whole of the20th century world education reform tide. During this period, the education thoughts and democracy education thoughts blustery pragmatism.At the beginning of the20th century Chinese in capitalist economy development and working-class expansion and under the influence of world education reform tide, Many people start against imperialism and the feudal forces of oppression, people began to attack the feudal traditional education, hope to meet new education ideas and concepts. Facing the northern warlords of dictatorship and retro socialist reflux, in ideological and cultural fields lifted a feudal culture movement. People started to pursue scientific and democratic spirit, and advocated introduction and learned advanced western culture education, reflection and reconstruction the traditional education and education concept. Later in the "May4th" movement, as a new culture movement, then promoted the climax of the national modern consciousness awakening and unprecedented ideological emancipation.In the May4th new culture movement, through foreign scholars in China lecturing, overseas student spread education ideas, the newspapers and magazines publicity and church school demonstration etc transmission way, many famous education ideas pouring into China, such as Dewey’s experimental ideology, Russell’s reformism thought and new education teaching method, also including probational socialist and populism and other new trend. Some Chinese education practitioners positive chosen and absorption, education experiment and education started all kinds of sports. These education thoughts effect on the education reform in the1920s has been extremely important role and influence, initially formed education concept and modern Chinese education system. Meanwhile in teaching concept, teaching methods, teaching mode in the modern education career in China also developed the indelible influence.