Max van Manen, winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Curriculum and Teaching of the American Association for Educational Research, read "The Mood of Education". There is not much content. The text and postscript of this book are only 177 pages, which is only half the size of A4 paper. However, it discusses the sensitivity and wit of education, understanding children's world full of possibilities, children's curious experience, the importance that every child needs to be seen, praise and affirmation, and the pedagogical significance of the subject 16. The topics of this 16 all start with the common phenomena in school education and family education, and help teachers to combine theory with practice and enhance their educational wisdom by analyzing the educational significance behind the phenomena.
Teacher Fan Meinan reminds educators to walk into children's world with sensitivity, wit and love, and keep a keen perception of rich and diverse educational situations and meanings from the perspective of life experience, so as to grasp and form educational wisdom and get along with children better. As one of the classic works of educational phenomenology, this book perfectly combines four functions: theoretical study, practical art, educational research and educational writing.
Regarding the emotional appeal of teaching, Mr. Fan Meinan thinks like this: "Every class is alive. Students are not containers, but living beings. " What is happening now is the best textbook. This kind of reading experience inspired me as an educator and teacher, and summarized the following five points:
First, cultivate love with love and educate with temperature.
Fan Meinan believes that the core of educational emotion is love, which is consistent with Tao Xingzhi's view of "love all over the world" and Gu Mingyuan's view of "no education without love". In the process of education, teachers can dedicate their love to every child only if they are full of humanistic feelings for children and regard them as independent living beings with distinctive personality and full of vitality. Only when there is love in the heart and light in the eyes can we see poetry and distance, and only when we stand at the height of human nature can we precipitate and enhance teachers' educational wisdom. Education will also have a good mood.
Second, teacher's love is the love of education.
The love of education is not a teacher's wishful thinking, it must meet the needs of children's life growth. Teachers' love for students, different from other loves, means that students grow and develop in a non-utilitarian way. "Pedagogy is a kind of knowledge obsessed with the growth of others" (Fan Meinan). Teachers need to "listen", "look" and pay attention to specific situations through phenomenology, so that children can feel the existence and "look" of teachers at any time. In this way, children can live with respect, tolerance and care, and live and grow happily.
Third, be close to students and pay attention to their growth.
In reading this book, I once again realized the importance and methods of "praise and affirmation". There is a case mentioned in the book. Teacher Zhu, who teaches English, misspelled a word in a unit test, but gave full marks. In this example, Miss Zhu drew a horizontal line under the misspelled word, indicating that she didn't miss it. However, in view of the student's high enthusiasm for learning and great progress in recent years, she gave the student full marks and finally really inspired the student. This shows the importance of praise, and also shows that praise also needs tact. The book also mentioned again that praise should not be too casual and indiscriminate. This will lose its function. At the same time, public praise is better than private praise.
Teachers should let every child be seen. Every child is an independent individual, eager to get the teacher's attention. A teacher's casual smile, a caring look, a thoughtful greeting and a casual praise may be very important to a child, or a happy or unhappy expression, all of which are lucky children. It is even more fortunate to be paid attention to by teachers from the perspective of pedagogy. Maybe he'll remember it all his life. The longer you work, the more students you teach, and the easier it is to ignore this point. I care less and less about my students, and I always think I have taught everything I need to teach. Whether they learn or not is their own business, not mine. This view is all wet. He may be just one of my thousands of students, but I am a teacher at an important stage in his life. I once heard a teacher tell a story. Many years after graduation, a student with poor grades often mentioned that a teacher had been very kind to him. In fact, the teacher didn't do anything serious, just praised it occasionally. Such simple words of praise are a great comfort to him and make him forget about it.
Fourth, we should respect and develop the possibility and uniqueness of children.
"In their life exploration, the children showed us the rich hopes and colorful possibilities in life, as well as the vision that life will be better."
This is a passage from The Mood of Education, which inspires us: We need to try our best to understand what a child's experience of the world is and how this child experiences his life.
Students are "minors", and this concept itself contains profound and rich "possibilities". Every creature is unique, with unique dignity and personality. Education is a conscious practical activity facing the possibility and uniqueness of "facts of life". In this regard, teachers should "look at children from the perspective of pedagogy", walk into students' life world, interpret students' life passwords, grasp students' life needs, and stimulate students' life potential.
Fifth, improve educational wisdom through reflection, experience and writing.
Education is not only a scientific activity that follows laws, but also an emotional activity full of wisdom and art, but educational wisdom will not naturally improve with the growth of education. Teachers bring educational phenomenon, educational behavior, children's educational performance, communication between teachers and students and life experience into educational reflection, in which they deepen their understanding, cultivate their emotions and optimize their practice. Writing is one of the ways of educational expression. In the process of writing, you are forced to strengthen theoretical study, life experience and practical reflection, so that educational wisdom can be continuously generated and precipitated in "writing" and "thinking".
Cultivate love with love and walk on the road of growth. Always pay attention to students, seize the opportunity of education, let the wisdom of education shine at this moment, and illuminate the haze and anxiety of the epidemic.
Of course, "reading" is not as good as "using books" (Tao Xingzhi) The book "The Mood of Education" can't do a good job of education, but it does provide a good inspiration and a good experience. I hope more educators and teachers can read, share and practice. Become an emotional teacher, a teacher full of educational wisdom.
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