Tao Xingzhi Normal Education Thought And The Development Of The Local Normal Universities To Think

Tao Xingzhi is a great educator of our people,a pioneer in educational reform,a model for teachers,a mirror for man.Mao Zedong calls him the "great people educator"and Song Qingling reputates him "the model of all things ".Using the saintly devotion in the rich education practice,Tao Xingzhi founded the roots of Chinese education soil,suitable for China's national conditions,conform to the world education trend,full of world influence of a complete life education theory.He is Considered not only to be "the strongest in modern Chinese originality,the real formation of their own education theory system,rich in the world of educational thinkers",but also the most influential in modern China,educators and educators who is most studied.Tao Xingzhi is the promoter and founder of the earliest rural teachers in China.Normal education is an important part of his life education theory.Tao Xingzhi's life,learning and communication experience is the social and historical condition of the normal education thought,and lays the ideological and cultural background of the formation of the teacher education thought.All kinds of education groups advocated,participated and presided in Tao Xingzhi's life is the foundation of his normal education thought.The philosophy and political thought of Wang Yangming,Dewey,Sun Yat-sen have an important influence on the formation of Tao Xingzhi's normal education thought.Tao Xingzhi's theory of normal education is based on the theory of "life education",the status of normal education,the training goal of normal education,the approach and method of teacher education.Tao Xingzhi believes that"education is the foundation of the country",normal education is "where the state dragged his life," "can prosperous,but also can promote the country's demise," the status and role of normal education and national future and national Fate linked together.Rural normal education should cultivate rural teachers who have the skills of farmers,the mind of science,the spirit of transforming society,the interest of art,and the health of the body,so that they can become leaders of rural reform in the spirit of the central school.In the course of talent training,normal education should insists on the method of "teaching,learning and doing." What the teachers teach depends on the need of the students.The way of teaching method leads to how do the students learn,so does the opposite side.It also emphasize the training on students 'practical ability and the nutual teaching and learning between the teachers and students.Tao Xingzhi pointed out that the normal school should also focus on "the construction of the central school",as a"pedagogy experimental site" and provides students "teaching to do."Under the new requirements of building a well-off society in an all-round way,TaoXingzhi's thought gives us the enlightenment that we must attach great importance to the normal education and develop the teacher-training education.We should pay attention to the localization of the educational theory,and strive to build a "pre-service post-integration" teacher training system.In the face of the trend of popularization of higher education,the development of local teachers colleges can learn from Tao Xingzhi's educational ideas,and firmly establish the concept of serving local basic education,and accurately locate the characteristics of "normal";strengthen the education of students Teaching ability;and closely with the local basic education docking,enhance the ability to serve the local.