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Dewey: Conservative Education and Progressive Education (20)
? The special combination of development towards the ultimate goal and external shaping has produced the theory of educational repetition, including biological repetition discourse and cultural repetition discourse. According to this theory, the individual is developing, but his proper development lies in the orderly repetition of many stages of animal life and human history.

? The reenactment of animal life occurs in physiology; The repetition of human history should be realized by education. Cultural reenactment, this theory holds that children of a certain age are the same intellectually and morally as people in barbaric times. Therefore, they infer that in this period, the teaching materials suitable for children's education are materials created by human beings at similar stages-especially literary materials such as myths, folk stories and ballads.

? The basic idea of this theory is that education is retrospective in nature; However, education is mainly about reviewing the past, especially literary works that trace back to the past. This thought has a great influence on higher education, and it is worth investigating its extreme proposition.

? The biological basis of this concept is wrong. Educationally, one of the great advantages of immature children is that we can liberate them without taking the old road. Therefore, the task of education is to liberate children from repeating the past and the old ways, rather than guiding them to repeat the past. Children's social environment is composed of the habits and behaviors of civilized people's thinking and feelings. If the guiding influence of the present environment on children is to give up the function of education.

? This concept of repetition contains two correct factors. The first point is in biology. Any baby who starts to have all kinds of impulsive activities is blind, and many of them are in conflict with each other, which is incompatible with his current environment. Second, the achievements of the past history should be used as long as they are beneficial to the future. Documents created in the past are part of their current environment as long as people are still mastering and using them. However, there is a big difference between using them as our current resources and as the standards and models for backtracking.

? 1. The first point is misinterpreted, usually from the misuse of gene concepts. For educational purposes, heredity is exactly what a person has. Education must begin with a person's endowment. But for a teacher, he only pays attention to the existing ability, and the source of ability is not particularly important to him. The task of the instructor is to make full use of what already exists, and it is impossible for the teacher to use what does not exist. In this sense, heredity is the limit of education. However, this theory does not determine how to use existing capabilities. Therefore, although our research on children's natural abilities is always the first thing we must do, the important step after that is to provide an environment that can function normally no matter what activities are now.

? 2. Replay theory holds that suitable teaching materials come from the cultural products of the past era, or general literature, or special literature produced in the cultural era corresponding to the development stage of the educated. This theory provides us with another example of the separation of growth process and result. We criticized this separation phenomenon.

? One can only live in the present, and now is to leave the past and look forward. Studying the products of the past will not help us understand the present. It is of great significance that the knowledge and heritage of the past must be related to the present and must enter the present. The mistake of using past records and relics as the main teaching materials lies in separating the important connection between the present and the past, making the past an opponent of the present and a useless imitation of the past.

? In a word, some problems now lead us to seek enlightenment from the past, and at the same time make what we find meaningful. The past is the past precisely because it contains nothing unique to the present. The ongoing present includes the past, as long as it uses the past to guide its own movement. A mind that is appropriately sensitive to the needs and opportunities of the present reality and interested in the present background has the most positive motivation and will never shrink back, because the past and the present will never lose contact.

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