2. Dewey, a great American teacher in the 20th century. Different from the traditional "three centers", he put forward the "new three centers" of "children (students) center", "activity center" and "experience center", which is called "new three centers theory" in pedagogy. The new "three centers" correct the relationship between teachers and students, emphasizing that knowledge is actively constructed based on students' own experience, and the teaching method is independent, cooperative and inquiry teaching.
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Traditional education is opposite to "modern education". Especially the educational theory and teaching mode of Herbart and his school. Its greatest influence on later generations is to divide the teaching process into four successive stages: clarity, association, system and method. Ryan, a descendant of this school, divided the original first stage into two stages and developed it into five stages: preparation, prompt, association, generalization and application. This teaching mode is helpful for teachers to impart systematic knowledge and improve classroom teaching effect. It spread widely in the second half of the19th century and had a great influence on Europe and America.
Modern education is a brand-new form of education in human history. With the formation of modern society, it is also the product of the development of human society and education to a certain historical stage. It is the highest stage of teaching development so far, and it is also a very important stage of human education development. Modern education in China began in the second half of19th century. Since the 1960s, a group of intellectuals with early reform ideas have written books in Guangdong, advocating imitating advanced western technologies and systems, promoting the prosperity of the country through improvement and reform, and advocating the atmosphere of learning western knowledge.
Different people have different definitions of the concept of modern education. Some people define modern education as "educational concept, form and characteristics suitable for modern production system, modern economic system, modern cultural system, modern science and technology and modern social lifestyle" from the external conditions. Some people look at the problem from the internal factors and define it as "the activity of educators to socialize the educated into people who can adapt to the modern society in which modern productive forces and production relations are unified."
Taken together, modern education can be expressed as: "In the historical period from the development of capitalist big industry and commodity economy to the complete realization of communism, we are committed to combining with productive labor and cultivating all-round development of people's education." This definition attempts to reveal the commonness of modern education.
In fact, cultural traditions, social systems and modern society at different stages of development will express and realize this commonality with their own unique personalities. In this sense, capitalist modern education and socialist modern education, British modern education and American modern education have both common trends and different characteristics. Modern education is a complex, diverse and dynamic concept of integration and unity.
Reference link: Baidu Encyclopedia: Traditional Education? Baidu Encyclopedia: Modern Education