Rousseau's Natural Education Thought And Its Enlightenment To Moral Education

As the advocate of outstanding theory during the French Enlightenment in the18 th century,Rousseau's thought includes a wide range of fields,and this paper studies his educational thoughts.Rousseau's monumental work on education,Emile,it takes Rousseau's natural education thoughts as the main content and provides a lot of important enlightenment and reference for the writing of this paper.This paper takes Rousseau's natural thoughts as the research line and theoretical basis,deeply analyzes the achievements and problems of the contemporary moral education in China,in the same vein,the present study is based on the unique perspective and methodology of the Rousseau's natural education thoughts to put forward the ideas and countermeasures for Chinese moral education reform in new era.This article can be divided into four parts:The first part: The author starts with the background of Rousseau's natural education thoughts,traces back to its theoretical origins and the process of development,and makes the theoretical foundation for the following parts.The thought of any historical figure must be closely related to the social background.Rousseau's natural education thoughts is no exception,it based on the development of Comenius's natural adaptation principle and adopts prevailing "natural state" thoughts since 17 th century.Criticism,inheritance and innovation of traditional educational theory runs through the budding,formation and development of Rousseau's natural education thought.The second part: The author comprehensively analyzes the core content and the cultivation goal of Rousseau's natural education thoughts.Its method throughout the focal point of "Emile",that is,teach students in accordance with their aptitude and show respect to students'individual character;pay attention to practice and oppose preaching;encourage negative education and suggest that natural consequence method should be used;emphasize emotional education and cultivate the love relationship between teachers and students,in this way the unique value of Rousseau's natural education thoughts can be highlighted,and also have a significant influence on western education and even all the world.The third part: Based on the affirmation of Rousseau's natural education thoughts,the author finds out the conjunction point by a comparative analysis between Rousseau's natural education thought and the current situation of the moral education.And based on the unique perspective of Rousseau's natural education thoughts,the author tries to deeply analyze the existing problem in current moral education from the perspective of moral education's object,content and method,and tries to analyze the causes of the problem.The fourth part: the author focuses on how to infiltrate the rational core of Rousseau's natural education thoughts into the practice of moral education in contemporary China,which includes four aspects of countermeasures: strengthening the subjective awareness of human being,highlighting the humanistic thought;cultivating "moral citizen",promoting social harmony;paying attention to practice,making moral education to life;deepening moral education system reform,improving the moral education system.