The concept of educational purpose

The definition of educational purpose: it is the general assumption or stipulation of the quality specifications of social individuals to be cultivated by education.

The Relationship between Educational Purpose and Educational Policy

Education policy is the means, methods and ways to realize the educational goal, and it is the policy expression of the educational goal, which is the basis for formulating the educational policy.

Both of them have inherent consistency in the stipulation of the social nature of education, and both contain the stipulation of who to train people for (which class and which society), which is the fundamental guiding principle that all levels and types of education in a certain society (country and region) must not violate in nature and direction.

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Education policy contains more contents than educational purposes. The purpose of education generally only includes "training people for whom". What kind of people have been trained "; In addition, the education policy also includes the question of "how to train people" and the basic principles of developing education.

The purpose of education is clear in the quality specification of personnel training, while the educational policy is more prominent in "what kind of education to run" and "how to run education".

The main theory about the purpose of education

1, individual-oriented theory and social-oriented theory

Representative figures of individualism: Rousseau, Pestalozzi, Froebel, and some naturalistic and existentialist educators.

2. Main points

The purpose of education is formulated according to the needs of personal development, and the purpose of education is to fully develop individual personality.

3. Personal value is higher than social value.

The representative of social standard theory; Plato, Comte, Durkheim, nuttall, Kerschensteiner, fascists and militarists.

Main point

The purpose of education is formulated according to the needs of society. The purpose of education is to socialize educators, and social value is higher than personal value.

Internal teleology and external teleology

Intrinsic teleology: regards education as promoting the physical and mental changes and development of the educated.

External teleology: convey social production and life experience and certain ideology through education, serve social production and life, and promote social change and development.