The Research On Chai Degeng’s Historical Teaching Thoughts

Chinese historiography has entered the booming period since the 20 th century. The famous historian Chai Degeng made important contributions to the development of Chinese historiography. Contemporary scholars have conducted researches on Chai Degeng and they mostly focus on the field of historical research. Nevertheless, seldom do they comprehensively discuss the educational thoughts of him. Chai Degeng based on his study experience in the early years, the resulting history foundation and long-term practice in history teaching to summarize and abstract rich thoughts on historical education. His historical education aims to conduct ideological education, patriotism education and traditional cultural education. Chai Degent puts forward relatively holistic views from three aspects: teaching content, teaching method and professional development of history teachers. He believes: the teaching content should take the whole situation into consideration, make appropriate trade-offs and respect facts. It should be taught with emotions. In terms of the teaching method, teachers should teach history vividly and create harmonious classroom atmosphere. The teaching method should be carefully selected. As for the professional development of history teachers, it is necessary to improve the moral accomplishment, intellectual accomplishment and the ability of teachers to research history.Obviously, these thoughts of Chai Degeng on historical education are of guiding significance to the contemporary history teaching.