I didn't really understand the meaning of these three words until I read Mr. Chen Heqin's original imprint "What is Living Education".
Life education is life education first. Mr. Chen Heqin said, "The fate and future of children are largely in the hands of adults who teach them. How important! "
Among them, Mr. Wang listed that his children were afraid to take a bath because of boiling water, and even more afraid to take a bath after beating and cursing. It was not until half a year of pain that I slowly gave the duck a bath before I was willing to take a bath. So Mr. Wang learned a valuable lesson: "Beating and cursing are really endless, so you must not ..."
Compared with reality, it is true. How a child grows up depends on educating his adults. Adults here include parents and teachers.
Therefore, in order to educate children well, adults should understand their psychology and children before they can talk about educating children. Only in this way can we do real "living education"!
A living education must be a living example. This point is mainly aimed at the low level of per capita education in China in the 1940s and 1950s. Because there are too many illiterates, family education is almost blank, and parents have no scientific methods to educate their children. He called for universal education and the improvement of national education.
Compared with now, there are still some parents with low academic qualifications, who have some shortcomings in educating their children and can't play a "living example" in front of their children.
Therefore, a living example is to ask adults to set an example in front of children and demonstrate by themselves, so that children can naturally acquire good habits, good behaviors and good qualities in the example of adults.
Living education must be living teaching materials. Mr. Chen Heqin said, "We are not against textbooks, but we should use live textbooks." "We don't talk about snow in summer and mosquitoes and flies in winter ... We advocate going to the fields, zoos and nature. Everything is alive, closely related to children and of great value. "
Combined with our own work, I think there are still some teachers who only rely on books to teach. They can't design activities or innovate methods, and sometimes they still educate modern children in the old way. This is not a living education, but a dead education.
Just look at the theme regional activities that are being implemented now, which are actually living textbooks. Only by constantly digging up the existing life textbooks can teachers make good use of children's hands, brains, eyes and ears to discover new knowledge and break the dead education of listening and seeing with their ears instead of talking with their mouths and thinking without their brains.
Living education must be a living teaching method. Teacher Wang listed the teaching methods of Putonghua, composition and calculation, and advocated that children should read more books, observe more and discover more. For example, once a child was asked to draw a horseshoe, but the child could not draw it, so he was asked to go to the road to observe the horseshoe of the carriage. After careful observation by the roadside, the child drew a horseshoe the next day.
From this case, we can easily see that it is very important for children to fall in love with learning, social experience and knowledge of nature reserves. The way to acquire knowledge is to put yourself in the children's shoes in the living teaching methods and living learning environment, so that children can naturally acquire new knowledge in specific situations.
Therefore, if teachers want to do active education, they must understand children's psychology, innovate the teaching methods used now with the spirit of research, and let children learn and grow independently in the active teaching methods.