(1) the essence of education

Education is life, education is growth, and education is the transformation or reorganization of experience. Education is a process of life, not preparation for future life. In addition, Dewey also put forward "school is society", which is a further extension of "education is life". There is a progressive relationship from "education is life" to "school is society" and then to curriculum reform ("learning by doing").

(2) Educational purpose

Dewey drew his "aimless education" from "education is life". "There is no purpose outside the process of education itself, it is its own purpose; The process of education is a process of continuous reorganization, transformation and re-transformation. "

(3) Learning by doing

It is required to replace the dominant position of traditional book-based teaching materials with active and empirical active homework. "Learning by doing" is not only a teaching method put forward by Dewey, but also an experienced, thinking and exploring method. Five-step inquiry teaching method: create a difficult situation, determine the difficulty, put forward various hypotheses to solve the problem, infer which hypothesis can solve this difficulty, and verify this hypothesis.

(4) the new three-center theory

Children's center, activity center, experience center