The reform and implementation of life education and mass education have made great contributions to education in China. In educational practice, he founded students.
Life education theory and teaching-learning-doing integrated education method. In early childhood education, his main contributions and views are as follows:
1. Mr. Tao Xingzhi, a pioneer of rural preschool education, lashed out at the disadvantages of preschool education in old China, and insisted on reforming foreign, expensive and rich kindergartens and establishing affordable and civilian kindergartens suitable for China's national conditions. He actively promotes the new development direction of preschool education in China, and thinks that factories and rural areas are the new continent of kindergartens. What is particularly commendable is that, as a university professor who returned from studying in the United States, he actively promoted civilian and rural education, initiated and founded the first rural kindergarten in China, Nanjing Yanziji Kindergarten, and also established rural preschool education and rural preschool education research association.
2. Pay attention to early childhood education. Mr. Tao Xingzhi spoke highly of the social value of early childhood education and publicized its importance to society. He said that "early childhood education is the foundation of life" and "fundamental". "Primary education should be universal, and so should naive education." And put forward three specific steps of popularization, namely, arousing Chinese people to understand that childhood education is the most important education; Reform kindergartens to face rural factories; Change the system of training teachers, etc.
3. Life is the center of education. Mr. Tao Xingzhi believes that life is education and play is work. It is proposed to compile teaching materials with the social life around kindergartens, natural phenomena and local customs of hometown as the content, with the places where children can give full play to their strengths as the classroom and the things that children can contact as the main content, so that children can learn from them, solve their own problems, organize their own games and cultivate "children with lively body and lively mind".
4. the educational method of combining teaching with learning Mr. Tao Xingzhi resolutely opposes the separation of teaching and learning. He "saw the situation that teachers only discipline and students only study in domestic schools, and he decided that there was a need for reform." He said, "Teaching is one thing, not three. We should teach while doing and go to school while doing. " For example, if farming is to be done in the field, it is necessary to learn and teach in the field. ..... Doing is the center of learning, which is also the center of teaching. ""If you don't work hard, you can't teach or learn. "
5. Liberating Children's Creativity Mr. Tao Xingzhi believes that education should stimulate and liberate children's creativity and provide them with conditions and opportunities to use their hands and brains. Specifically, it includes five aspects: ① Emancipate children's thoughts, and liberate children's thoughts from superstition, prejudice, misinterpretation and fantasy; (2) Emancipate the child's hands and give the child a chance to start work; (3) Liberate children's mouths and give them the freedom to speak, especially allowing them to ask questions; (4) Liberating children's space and letting them contact with nature and society; (5) Free children's time, give children time for their own study and activities, give children some free time to digest what they have learned, learn something they are eager to learn, and do something they are willing to do.
Mr. Tao Xingzhi's thought of early childhood education still has great practical significance today.