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On experimental pedagogy
The emergence of experimental pedagogy and its main contents.

A: (1) Time: the end of 2009 and the beginning of the 20th century.

② Representatives: Man Mei and Rye?

(3) Key points:

1) opposes the pedagogy represented by Herbart, which emphasizes conceptual thinking, and thinks that this pedagogy is useless in testing the advantages and disadvantages of educational methods;

2) Advocating to apply the research results and methods of experimental psychology to educational research, so as to make educational research truly "scientific";

3) Educational experiments must be divided into three stages: making assumptions about a certain problem; Make an experiment plan according to the hypothesis and carry out the experiment; The experimental results are applied to practice to prove their correctness;

4) The difference between educational experiment and psychological experiment is that psychological experiment is carried out in the laboratory, while educational experiment is carried out in the real school environment and teaching practice;

5) We advocate exploring the characteristics of children's psychological development and their intellectual development level by means of experiments, statistics and comparison, and take the experimental data as the basis for reforming the education system, curriculum and teaching methods.

(4) Evaluation:

1) The quantitative research emphasized by experimental pedagogy has become a basic paradigm of pedagogy research in the 20th century, which has been widely applied and developed in the past hundred years, greatly promoting the development of educational science.

2) Limitations of experimental pedagogy: Some problems cannot be dealt with by experimental or quantitative methods, so it is possible to move towards scientism.

Discussion: experimental pedagogy focuses on experiments, that is, applying the research results and methods of experimental psychology to educational research. First of all, it is useless to test the advantages and disadvantages of conceptual speculative pedagogy represented by Herbart. Therefore, educators represented by Man Mei and Rye put forward experimental education to test the quality of education and teaching in school environment and teaching practice. The specific way is to explore the characteristics of children's psychological development and the level of intellectual development through experiments, statistics, comparison and other methods; Put forward the basis for reforming education and school system, curriculum and teaching methods. Finally, through a series of experiments, educational research is the real "science". Education, from a single "experiment" point of view, has certainly become the basic paradigm of educational research in the 20th century. It was widely applied and developed in the last century, which greatly promoted the development of educational science. However, it is easy to go to extremes and move towards single scientism and experimentalism to pursue a single experiment and ignore the educational problems that the experiment has not dealt with.