They all emphasize that education should be innovative.

Dewey: put forward the "new three-centered theory" of "children center (student center)", "activity center" and "experience center".

Tao Xingzhi: Put forward educational theories such as "life is education", "society is school" and "teaching integration". He attached great importance to rural education and thought it was very important to popularize education among more than 300 million farmers.

Chen Heqin: Starting from criticizing China's traditional feudal education, he absorbed reasonable and useful things from Dewey's pragmatic educational thought, and combined with China's education to carry out reforms and experiments, trying to make the educational theory scientific and China.

Second, educators. The difference between Dewey, Chen Heqin and Tao Xingzhi;

1, with different pertinence.

Dewey: The focus of educational theory is divided into three parts: children, activities and experience.

Tao Xingzhi: His educational theory focuses on rural education.

Chen Heqin: Absorbing Dewey's pragmatism education thought, making education theory scientific and China.

2. The background is different.

Dewey: After the industrial revolution, it was influenced by the industrial revolution.

Tao Xingzhi: Combining the national conditions of rural education in China at that time.

Chen Heqin: Starting from criticizing the traditional feudal education in China.

Extended data:

John. Dewey is a famous pragmatic philosopher and educator, who founded the pragmatic education thought and is known as the "pragmatic giant".

Tao Xingzhi is a great people educator in China. 19 15, when he was 24 years old, he majored in education management in Teachers College of Columbia University, and Dewey was his tutor.

As Dewey's favorite pupil, Tao Xingzhi made a comprehensive study of Dewey's educational thought. After returning to China, according to the current social situation in China, he launched a mass education movement, inherited and developed Dewey's education thought, and founded a modern education theory with life education as the main line.

Dewey stands for pragmatic pedagogy, which, together with the "progressive education" in western Europe, opposes traditional education and becomes a new school of education.

They advocated replacing teachers' center with children-centered, replacing subject teaching with activity courses, criticizing that traditional education is divorced from the reality of students' lives and ignoring students' interests and needs, and put forward slogans such as "education is life", "school is society" and "learning by doing", which formed a perfect pragmatic educational ideology and became the representative of "modern education school".

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