The origin of "formal education theory" comes from Plato's memory, Athens: an elegant educational tradition that emphasizes the development of rational ability.
According to the theory of formal education, the main task of school teaching is to cultivate and develop students' formal abilities: feeling, thinking, skills, emotion and will, and to set courses and choose teaching materials centered on students' formal abilities.
Learning mathematics and Chinese is to train memory or thinking, without worrying about mastering teaching knowledge or literary knowledge.
Main representatives:
Locke (UK)+Pestalozzi (Switzerland)
The theoretical basis of the basic content of "formal education theory";
1, epistemological basis (rationalism): emphasizing the development of human rational ability.
2. Psychological basis (functional psychology): training functions and realizing transfer (feeling and memory).
The teaching purpose view of the basic content of "formal education theory": promoting the development of people's formal ability
1, savvy (rational ability)
2. Thinking ability
Curriculum view of the basic content of "formal education theory": centered on setting up classical humanities courses
1, Greek
2. Latin
3. Mathematics
4. Logic (dialectics)
The theory of formal education provided theoretical guidance for the curriculum and teaching activities of European grammar schools and Latin schools in the18th century.
It embodies the educational style of attaching importance to academic courses and classical culture.
It has a great influence in the field of practice
Emphasize the value of formal training in school teaching.
Improve people's psychological function and develop people's potential through teaching.
(B) Early learning transfer theory
It is believed that students can develop their psychological function through training and can transfer to other studies.
For example, learning Greek, Latin and mathematics is beneficial to the study of other courses and textbooks.
(C) 19. The research of educational psychology in the 20th century proved that this kind of educational path design is not feasible.
Ability development needs to be based on meaningful content learning.
Summary:
"Formal education theory" is a teaching theory that emphasizes the development of formal ability and classical humanities courses, which has had an important influence on the school education in Europe in the18th century and the teaching thought of China in later generations.