Dewey's Habit Theory Study

Dewey is a well-known American philosopher and educator in modern times.He came to China from 1919 to 1921 and had a profound influence on China's education reform.Dewey's thinking on habits is reflected in many books throughout his life.Dewey opposed the binary opposition and the separation of mind and body to view habits.Habit is the key concept of Dewey's efforts to unify subjective and objective,active and passive,individual and society.Dewey believes that habits are closely related to experience,growth,and education.Therefore,understanding Dewey's habit theory is an important way to understand Dewey's educational theory.It has important enlightening value for understanding children's habits and guiding children's habit training.This article aims to study Dewey's habit theory,deeply understand Dewey's thoughts,interpret Dewey's habit theory,and reflect on children's habits and children's education.The "Dewey Theory of Habits" was formed in the transitional period of American society.The tide of immigration has caused tremendous changes in social customs,and mechanized production methods have impacted people's ways of thinking.However,education at that time failed to better adapt to social changes and regulate the problems faced by people and society.crisis.What Dewey saw in China was the conflict between social traditions and social changes,which also inspired Dewey to think about the role and significance of "habits" between individuals and society.In this context,Dewey was influenced by Darwin's theory of evolution,James functionalist psychology and Peirce's philosophy,and combined his basic views in the fields of psychology,philosophy and pedagogy,and systematically and richly discussed the issue of habit."Dewey's Habit Theory" mainly contains three levels of content: the concept of habit,the formation of habit,and the cultivation of habit.First,analyze Dewey's reinterpretation of the concept of habit.Dewey's understanding of habit is fundamentally different from traditional understanding.Traditional understanding mostly emphasizes the automatic performance of habit at the level of physical behavior.Dewey's early understanding of habit also emphasizes the automation of habit.However,as the understanding deepens,Dewey believes that habit also includes reason.The two parts and automation are the system of skills and reaction tendencies generated during the interaction between organisms and the environment.Habits embody and constitute an individual's will,self,morality,and social customs.The habit of seeking stability and balance in a changing environment is the unity of individuals and society.Secondly,it analyzes Dewey's explanation of the habit formation process.Dewey's explanation of habit formation is different from that of early behaviorist psychology.Dewey associates habit formation with the process of experience.Habits occur in the process of experience.Experience is the carrier of habit.The tendency of habit to form fixed skills and responses cannot be separated from the continuity of experience.The renewal and preservation of habit is realized through experience.Dewey explained the formation process of habit from the process of reciprocal balance between habit,impulse,reason and environment.Dewey believed that individual impulse and objective environment are forces that counteract each other.Habit is a means of impulsive realization of oneself,and reason plays a moderating role in it.Formed in the course of interaction.Finally,it analyzes Dewey's exposition on habit cultivation.Dewey believes that the plasticity of habit is the prerequisite and basis for discussing habit training.Dewey agrees that habit has plasticity.However,the uniqueness of Dewey's explanation of habit plasticity is that Dewey believes that habit plasticity is the ability to actively learn and to shape itself.Because habits and experience are inherently related,habit training is closely related to experience transformation,and experience transformation and social transformation are closely related.Dewey has always been passionate about the realization of a democratic society.The realization of a democratic society requires people to have democratic habits,so habit training is to transform society Important steps.In order to achieve the goal of transforming experience and transforming society,Dewey believes that we should focus on both external and internal aspects.The formation of habit can be intervened through the external environment.Individual knowledge should also be increased and the role of rationality in regulating habits should be enhanced.Dewey's habit theory suggests that we should break through the limitations of habit recognition and look at children's habits from the process of children's experience.Children's habit should be a habit system that is flexible and adaptable to the environment,rather than fixed and isolated behaviors;children's habits are formed in a vivid experience process.Rather than fixed repetitive exercises;reflecting on the relationship between habit training,experience transformation and educational purpose,it can be found that habit training means the transformation of experience,and the purpose of education needs to be achieved through experience transformation.Therefore,the habit training process and the education process are inherently consistent.The unity of personal and social development can be achieved through the cultivation of children's habits.The cultivation of children's habits is an important way to cultivate core literacy.Therefore,the cultivation of children's habits is of great value to education.Reflecting on children's education,educators should protect children's plasticity,do not damage children's ability to shape themselves,return to children's lives,and cultivate children's comprehensive and flexible habits through the process of practice.