Highlight: Even the most ordinary children will become extraordinary people as long as they are properly educated! Kuichi Kimura, the author, devoted his life to the research of early childhood education and intellectual development. When the Japanese royal family awarded him a medal, he praised: Mr. Kimura has successfully improved the quality of a generation of Japanese nationals. As the originator of early childhood education, Kimura Kuiyi has many works, and his book Early Education and Genius is regarded as the "Bible" of family education by the educational circles.
Further reading: karl witte's Education (De karl witte), Early Education and Ability Training (Suzuki), Steiner's Nature Education (Maesteiner), Vulgarity and Genius (Mercedes), etc.
2, "A good mother is better than a good teacher" Yin Jianli
Highlight: Parents not only gained a lot of effective experience at once, but also raised their awareness of education. It is a model of seeking truth from facts about family education and the most practical reference book for parents.
3. "Who took away the happiness of children" Li Yueer
Highlight: She explained the child's happiness in the clearest and most vivid language. Through 190 stories in life and teaching, she deduces a series of practical and effective methods, and establishes a humanized and rational happy communication platform for parents, teachers and children, which makes children extremely willing to cooperate with educators.
4, "Looking for Mom" Wang Donghua
Highlight: In order to solve the unprecedented "mother crisis" in China, the author has worked hard for ten years to write a monograph on mother education. From the mother's point of view, the author has made serious and in-depth thinking on some core issues of human society, and put forward a series of important propositions related to the fate of the whole mankind, such as "the hand that pushes the world is the hand that shakes the cradle". You may not be a genius, but you can be the mother of a genius. Parents must read!
5, "The Secret of Childhood" Montessori
Highlight: In this book, Dr. Montessori vividly describes the physical and psychological characteristics of children. As a parent, you must read this book if you want to know the secret of children's growth and enter their hearts!
Montessori is the first female doctor of medicine in Italy. The founder of the first Children's Home. The Montessori school named after her covers 1 10 countries. Her biography is included in 12 biography series "People who Help the World". British educators praised her as "one of the greatest scientists who won worldwide recognition in the 20th century to promote science and human progress". American educators praised: "the contemporary discussion on preschool education is incomplete without Montessori system"; German educator commented: "In the history of education, it is rare to attract worldwide attention like Montessori education law".
Among the three classic family education books recognized in the west, namely, Random Talk on Education (Locke), Emile (Rousseau) and The Secret of Childhood (Montessori), Locke's view is more rational, Rousseau's view is more romantic, and Montessori inherits Rousseau's romantic but more rational, which is called "Montessori".
Further reading: Montessori early teaching method, Montessori children's education manual, finding children, absorbing minds, etc.
6, "Emile on education" [France] Rousseau
Highlight: The important works of Rousseau, an outstanding French enlightenment thinker. Emile is the first novel and one of the three great educational works in the world. The educational theory it discussed caused a great revolution in the history of education and was praised as "the natural gospel of education" by Goethe. In this book, Rousseau opposed the old education system by educating Emile, his supposed educational object, and expounded his thought of "natural education". Rousseau's so-called natural education is to obey the eternal laws of nature and respect the free development of human body and mind, and its means are life and practice. He advocates the use of physical teaching and intuitive teaching methods, so that children can obtain the knowledge they need from personal experience of life and practice through sensory feelings. Closely related to nature education, Rousseau also advocates educating children on labor and freedom, equality and love, so that they can learn the means of making a living, cultivate their ability to control freedom and physical strength as soon as possible, and maintain natural habits.
Further reading: Education of Love (Italian) and Little Pea by the Window (Tetsuko Kuroyanagi).
7. rambling on education [England] John Locke
Recommended reason: This is an educational classic with simple philosophy, vivid and touching, which has far-reaching influence on later generations and shaped the thoughts of ordinary people from generation to generation. It is still a must-read book for educators and parents in Europe, America and even the world.
8. Spock parenting classic [America] Spock
Highlight: This book is recognized as the most credible parenting manual in the 20th century. Since its publication in the 1940s, it has been translated into 39 languages and sold 50 million copies worldwide. In Spock's Classic on Parenting, Dr. Spock, known as the "father of parenting", provided comprehensive, professional and meticulous parenting skills for parents of children aged 0- 12, emphasizing that parents should cultivate their children's creativity throughout the whole process of parenting. This book, together with Freud's psychoanalysis, was rated as one of the 10 books that changed human thought and life in the 20th century by Time magazine.
8. Give me your hand, son [America] Heim G. Guinot.
Highlight: A Godson classic, which has sold more than 5 million copies in the United States and sold well all over the world in 365,438+0 languages, has completely changed the way parents communicate with their children. In this field, it can really be called revolutionary homeschooling. It is very enlightening for parents in China. It is not enough for parents to have love and insight. Good parents need skills. How to acquire and use these skills is the main content of this book.
Author Heim G. Guinot, doctor of psychology, clinical psychologist, child psychologist and pediatrician; Ajder is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of the Philippines. He devoted his short life to the research of children's psychology and the education of parents and teachers. Relying on his professional wisdom, he has done a lot of creative work and made great achievements. His innovative ideas on how to communicate with children in books, speeches and columns have won great repercussions not only in the United States but also around the world.
Extended Reading: Chen Heqin's Family Education, which has influenced several generations of China family education classics.
9. The art of love [beauty] Fromm
Highlight: Love is the premise and core of all education, but what is love? Do we really understand love, or even really love it? Is love just a gesture, or is it an ability or art to learn? Fromm's The Art of Love gives the most popular but profound and incisive answers to these questions from the perspective of psychology and ethics. Reading this book not only helps us to understand fraternity, self-love, parents' love, God's love and so on, but also helps us to understand our own life. The Art of Love is a very important book, and many of Fromm's incisive expositions are good tools for understanding education, such as the expositions on fatherly love and maternal love, which reveal the important secrets of children's growth and are one of the basic weapons for us to understand children and solve their problems. Repeated reading of this book can be used not only to truly understand love, but also to understand education, self-understanding and insight into a happy and complete The Secret Behind.
10, children's personality education [Austria] Adler
Recommended reason: Adler introduced the basic motivation of children's personality development and the reasons for the birth of problem children very accurately and clearly. The basic framework of his children's personality structure can be regarded as a key to understand children's problems. Reading this book repeatedly can help parents to establish the basic structure of understanding their children's personality. Because Adler's book really reveals the most important procedure in the process of children's development, which can explain the roots of many difficult children.
Extended reading: If parents are interested in Adler's individual psychology, they can also read another famous book, Inferiority and Transcendence.
The purpose of education Whitehead [English].
Recommended reason: When we are immersed in many details of educational technology, few people look up at the starry sky of education and seriously think about where we are going and what the purpose of education is. The greatest value of this book is that Whitehead, as a process philosopher, has keenly grasped the basic rhythm of education, namely "romance-precision-synthesis" and "freedom-discipline". Although Whitehead explained his very important thoughts as easily as possible, there is still a process to truly understand Whitehead's thoughts, but once truly understood and mastered, these thoughts will become a very useful force and become one of the cornerstones of our parents' thinking education.
12, thinking training for gifted children, john dewey, UK.
Highlight: This is a wonderful book in the history of education. It has changed the quality of Americans, rewritten American history, set a pragmatic tone for the United States and designed a blueprint for the growth of every child in the United States. Since its publication, the influence of this book has been enduring. All parents who dream of cultivating their children into geniuses have learned practical ideas from this book and cultivated excellent children.
13, M.S. Steiner's nature education
Highlight: Described the growth process of daughter Winnie Brett in detail, trying to clarify the author's educational thoughts and methods. The author uses vivid facts instead of boring theories to illustrate the problem.
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