Knowledge Transformation And Teachers’ Roles

Whether a country in prosperous or in recession, first of all it will be attributed toor blame to the education. The public expect our teachers to change bear the brunt.Teachers as a teaching and learning activities organizers and managers, to a largeextent，affect the effectiveness of teaching and learning activities, the role of teachersin the minds of most people also vary. In the social progress and the prevalence ofeducation reform today, people expect teachers to achieve the perfect transformation ina variety of curriculum reform and teaching reforms.Accompanied by a high degree of development of science and technology, humansociety has entered a new era-the era of knowledge economy, the concept of“Knowledge is the power” has influenced us and knowledge has been regarded as aninvisible productivity and valued by people. In the concept of the importance of theknowledge, it is bound to have a profound impact on education. Because knowledge isrooted in the soil of the educational activities, even if under the new curriculum reform,the role of the knowledge is pivotal. Today’s society has entered a knowledge-big bangera, knowledge is growing at its alarming rate, how to filter in the existing knowledgeand pass along knowledge, which is every educator should pay attention to.Author based on the view of Mr Shi Zhongying, divide the knowledge into thefollowing stages: Original Knowledge, Ancient Knowledge, Modern Knowledge andPost-modern Knowledge. Compared to Mr Shi Zhongying, the author emphasize thatthese types of knowledge-based knowledge in different knowledge-based nature of therelationship between knowledge and knower, knowledge and understanding of objectrelations and so changed, while these changes will inevitably affect the teachingcontent, teaching methods, the relationship between teachers’ knowledge, therelationship between teachers and students. This paper first introduces the fourknowledge-based development of human society has experienced and described thetime and their knowledge of the characteristics of these types of knowledge-based, followed by introduction of the related concepts of the role of the teachers, and thendescribes the knowledge transformation is for educational purposes, teaching content,teaching methods, teaching evaluation affect the teacher’s role as an intermediary, andfinally further third of the knowledge requirements of the role of teachers in transition,impact on the role of primary and secondary school teachers and the role of universityteachers, and finally the proposed change the problems and propose solutions to countermeasures.