Kaiming Mandarin Textbook And Its "Life-centered" Enlightenments To The Compilation Of Chinese Textbooks In Primary School

Kaiming Mandarin Textbook,published by Shanghai Kaiming Bookstore in 1932,is used for primary school teaching.As one of the representatives of the old textbook series in the Republic of China,Kaiming Mandarin Textbook appeared again and aroused people`s great interests to read the old textbooks in 2005. It once sold out.Because of the strong demand of the market,Kaiming Mandarin Textbook reprinted in2011.Kaiming Mandarin Textbook has been published since 80 years ago.Why could it catch the readers`attention?And why could it become a popular reading materials to people?The reasons are following:firstly,its“life-centered”concept fit in with readers`thoughts.Secondly, the colloquial content and interesting illustration that close to the real lives of children arouse the learning interests of children,enrich the common sense knowledge of children, and practice their basic life skills.Thirdly,it was written by Ye Shengtao,printed in Kaishu font in Feng Zikai style,and matched with illustration which close to people`s life.Kaiming Mandarin textbook is mainly about the basic knowledge of children’s daily life. The various words, colloquial languages, children tone and vivid pictures are fit in with children’s learning psychology.The reason why it was popular for so many years is that it contains the thoughts of life education. It makes children learn how to use the knowledge in real life and find the interest.Firstly, this paper introduces the social and cultural background of the publication of Kaiming Mandarin Textbook, the rise of “life education” theory, and then discusses the concept of education. After the explanation of the background.It focuses on the analysis of the text. By summarizing the form and content of Kaiming Mandarin Textbook,it finds that this book is a set of reading material which suit the mentaldevelopment of children.Then, according to the new curriculum requirements and laws of the development of children, it tries to stand on "life oriented" point of view on the basis of Kaiming Mandarin Textbook,and put forward some enlightenments to the present elementary school language teaching material compilation...