Paul Goodman's Educational Thought Of "freedom And Choice"

Paul Goodman is an American educator who were involved in the American basic education reform after World War 2, but in general there are two clues, the first is to reform the "education content", including "national defense education law" to "return based movement", the other one is based on "School system" reform, from 1964 Friedman (Milton Friedman) of the "education voucher" idea, "the Reagan administration's 80 magnet schools" (magnet school), the early 90's Bush voucher plan of the government, to the late 90's Clinton government charter school (Chart school), the two lines of the mutual support background almost simultaneously launched. The reform path of ideological origins can be traced back to the 20th century 60's on the role of the school question and discussion, Paul Goodman. He is representative of the educational thoughts of "Radicalism".Paul Goodman's core ideas of education can be used "freedom" "choice" two words, Goodman Paul believes that "education freedom is to give the greatest opportunity for human development", Goodman opposed to two extremes in human nature. One view is that the nature of human nature seems to have unlimited adaptability. It seems as long as the use of social and transmission technology, you can adapt to any thing. He blamed this for the idea of a disaster. According to this view, people in accordance with the highly organized system to produce the so-called "vocational guidance", as well as the "compulsory training", are contrary to the original meaning of "education freedom and choice". In this view of "free education", the construction of the school should be established in the transformation and regression of the traditional communityGoodman Paul's "education freedom" in the "theory of human nature", "education freedom", "education choice" for the interpretation of the system, put forward their own "mini school" education program, which includes the teaching organization, curriculum, teaching model, and so on. In the organization of teaching, Paul. Goodman advocated teachers diversification constitutes to have professional teachers and social workers participation, place of education is no longer blame requirements, as long as life as much as possible; the curriculum, he proposed to and "value" as the premise, let the students free choice needed in their ability to self in the process of development of knowledge; teaching mode, emphasizing direct experience, all of our teaching is only for students to create a "valuable".