Since 1 1926, the declaration of China Education Reform Society on transforming rural education in China has been issued one after another. From 65438 to 0929, St. John's University awarded him an honorary doctor of science degree in recognition of his contribution to the education reform in China. He devoted his life to civilian education and rural education movement. Xiaozhuang Normal School and Yanziji Central Kindergarten were founded in 1927. Advocate and implement universal education, national disaster education and anti-Japanese war education before and after the Anti-Japanese War.
His life education theory advocates "life is education", "society is school" and "teaching integration". The main pre-school education works include the Declaration on the Establishment of Rural Kindergartens, New World of Kindergartens, How to Popularize Early Childhood Education, etc.
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In the long-term educational practice, Tao Xingzhi critically absorbed the essence of various educational thoughts at home and abroad, summed up his own educational practice experience, and founded a life education theory with China characteristics based on the principles of educational philosophy and with various educational ideas as its content.
This theory has become one of the important theoretical sources of China's educational thought system, and it is also an important theoretical resource for the development of China's educational thought at present and in the future.
In the first half of the 20th century, Dewey's pragmatic ideas such as "education is life" were widely popular in China's educational circles. However, this view is the product of American social and cultural environment, which can't fully suit China's national conditions and can't really solve the problems existing in China's education.
For this reason, Tao Xingzhi criticized Dewey's "education is life" after some experience, and put forward three principles: "life is education", "society is school" and "teaching, learning and doing are integrated", which formed the educational thought system of "life education".
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-Tao Xingzhi's anthology