The "Addition" And "Subtraction" In The Study Of Educational History

China education discipline has gone for nearly a century. Withseveral generations of Chinese educational history scholars’effort, China educational history study has made a substantialdevelopment. At the same time, the study of education history studyitself, also gradually developed, the" yuan "study of educationalhistory can make the development of education history from ease toconscious state.After reflections on history of education research in-depth, can befound in the history of education research, writing, education workprocess, is a very important part of the research and analysis ofeducators in different periods and its thought, in the process,researchers tend to choose some educators and abandon someeducators. During the previous study of educational history, thisaspect content is less involved. But we have to admit that behindthis "add" and "reduced", there is a profound subjective andobjective reasons, and these reasons are one of the important factorsthat affect educational history studies. This research is based on three different sets of detailedmaterials, choosing the educators as the breakthrough point, with the"add" and "subtraction" way of thinking, it compared the appearanceand disappearance of educators in the three sets of books of differentperiod. It explored how the writers’ own academic backgroundinfluences the choices of the educators; It discusses deep factorssuch as political, cultural and ideological background behind theincrease and decrease, and it tries to find out the key factorsaffecting the development of educational history research; it reflectsthe law influences the history of education research. So this researchcan actively train history of education yuan research thought, widenthe path of the yuan of educational history research, rich the historyof education yuan research data. This research has a very importanttheoretical and practical significance.