The child-centered theory was put forward by Dewey. He proposed that "children are the starting point, the center and the purpose." The development of children and the growth of children are the ideals. "

"Child-centered" is embodied in the process of education, which requires teachers to consider children's personality characteristics, so that every student can give full play to his special skills and respect children's dominant position in educational activities.

Dewey's basic view of "child-centered theory"1After the middle of the 9th century, capitalism was established and further developed. Social production has developed from mechanization to electrification.

With the gradual popularization of science and technology, as far as the development of education itself is concerned, it is getting rid of general cultural education or classical cultural education and moving towards productive and practical education. The original traditional teaching method emphasizes indoctrination and preaching, which is increasingly in sharp contradiction with the education, teaching and training of new talents required in the new period, and requires reform.

Dewey emphasized two points:

1. Children and curriculum are not antagonistic, but interrelated. Children and curriculum are only two poles of a single process, with children as the starting point and curriculum as the end point. As long as the teaching materials are introduced into children's lives and let them experience directly, they can connect the two points and let the children go from the starting point to the end point.

2. The center of school subjects is not science, literature, history or geography, but children's own social activities.