Education can transmit the accumulated experience of human beings, enrich the content of human experience, and enhance the ability of experience to guide life and adapt to society, thus maintaining and developing social life.
2. The theory of educational aimlessness.
In Dewey's mind, in an undemocratic and unequal society, education is only the purpose imposed on the educated by external forces. A democratic society is different. We should pursue the theory of aimlessness.
3. School is society.
Dewey believes that people's participation in the real life of society is a proper way to grow physically and mentally and transform their experience. Therefore, teachers should turn the classroom of imparting knowledge into a paradise for children's activities, guide children to actively participate in activities, unconsciously develop moral character and acquire knowledge in activities, and realize the transformation of life, growth and experience.
4. Teaching theory
Based on the theory that education is the transformation of life, growth and experience, Dewey attaches importance to teaching materials and teaching methods. Make a statement different from the traditional concept.
5. Moral education theory
Dewey said: "Morality is the highest and ultimate goal of education." "Moral process and educational process are unified." Dewey believes that moral education plays an important role in education. Dewey strongly emphasized that morality is the force to promote social progress.
6. Child-centered theory
Dewey put forward the idea of "children-centered" in the process of criticizing the old education, that is, "innovation" in the process of "dilapidated".
In Dewey's view, in traditional education, "the focus of the school is outside the children, on the teachers, on the textbooks, wherever you are happy, not in the children's own immediate instincts and activities", and the textbooks are "the main representatives of past knowledge and wisdom" and "the teachers are the bodies that effectively connect students with textbooks, and the teachers are the spokespersons for imparting knowledge and skills and implementing the code of conduct".
Extended data:
The influence of Dewey's educational thought;
1, emphasizing the unity of knowing and doing, and turning dead knowledge into living knowledge in teaching.
2. The view that education is the interaction between man and environment is a transcendence and breakthrough of endogenous theory and exogenous theory.
3. The view that education is growth and life discusses the essence of education from the perspective of psychology. The essence of education is summarized as education is life, education is growth and education is experience.
4. Education is experience. This paper discusses the essence of education from the perspective of epistemology, and solves the problems of obtaining knowledge and experience and the coordination between psychology and society, process and purpose.
5. Education is life, school is society, and individuals and society are unified from the perspective of society. Connect school life with students' life experiences to solve the problem of disconnection between education and society.
6. Teaching materials are psychological and suitable for the psychological development of students' experience, not logical order.
7. Scientific teaching methods and inquiry spirit make scientific spirit an important part of teaching.
8. Teaching major, improve the disciplinary status of pedagogy and enhance the academic nature. Under its influence, a large number of educational professional institutions have been established.
9. Dewey has worldwide influence, and his educational theory has played a great role in the world education process, which has a direct impact on Japan, China, Turkey, the Soviet Union, Mexico and other countries.
10, Dewey's theory puts too much emphasis on children's center, activity center and experience center, which makes educational practice ignore the teaching of systematic knowledge and causes many contradictions between freedom and discipline, teacher-student relationship and so on. In addition, the idea of writing new textbooks based on experience and the principles of psychological textbooks is too ideal to be realized.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Dewey's Educational Thought