Life education theory is the main line and important cornerstone of Tao Xingzhi's educational thought. Tao Xingzhi's educational theory mainly includes three aspects: life is education, society is school, and teaching and learning are integrated.
We advocate that education should be linked with real life, oppose hard study, and pay attention to cultivating children's creativity and independent working ability. Later, the characteristics of life education are summarized as vitality, action, mass, progress, cosmopolitanism and historical connection, which is an education for mass liberation and national liberation.
Tao Xingzhi s life education theory;
1, "Life is education"
"Life is education" is the core of Tao Xingzhi's life education theory.
The so-called life is education, which means taking life itself as an education. Everything in life can be the object of study, and everything in life can teach us knowledge. Mr. Tao Xingzhi once said: "What you live is your education; A good life is a good education and a bad life is a bad education. "
Life education is born, born. Born in disgrace, he graduated in a coffin. "Thus, the basic meaning of" life is education ":
First of all, "life is education" is something that exists in human society. Since there has been human life, there has been life education, and life education has changed with the change of human life. Second, "life is education" corresponds to all kinds of life in the reality of human society. Life education is the education in life, and education is carried out in all kinds of life. Third, "life is education" is a kind of lifelong education, which is accompanied by life.
2. "Society is school"
"Society is school" is another important proposition of Tao Xingzhi's life education theory.
Combined with the social background that not everyone could receive education at that time, Tao Xingzhi opposed this special unequal education, put forward "society is school" and advocated universal education for the public. The core of "society is school" is to expand the object of education and the content of learning, so that more people can receive education.
. He thinks that there are too few things in schools, so it is better to advocate' society is school' in turn. This can greatly increase educational materials, educational methods, educational tools and educational environment, and increase students and teachers. Tao Xingzhi's "society is school" is the same as "life is education", and it is also to oppose the disconnection and isolation between traditional education and life, and between school and society.
3. "Integration of teaching and learning"
"Integration of teaching and doing" is the teaching concept of life education theory.
In Tao Xingzhi's words, "integration of teaching and doing" is the explanation of life phenomenon, that is, the explanation of education phenomenon. Teaching and doing are one thing, not three things. We should teach while doing, and go to school while doing. Taking farming as an example, he pointed out that if farming is to be done in the field, it is necessary to learn and teach in the field.
In Tao Xingzhi's view, "teaching and doing in one" is not only the law of life, but also the law of education. It means that the teaching method is based on the learning method, and the learning method is based on the doing method. Therefore, he particularly emphasized the need to acquire knowledge in "doing" activities.