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What is the main content of Herbart's educational theory?
1. The threat of punishment. That is to say, threatening children with punishment, the school has stipulated many specific orders and prohibitions, and set up a punishment book to record children's faults. But at the same time, he pointed out that this method should not be abused, otherwise stubborn children will not care about threats, and fragile children will not be able to bear threats.

2. supervision. That is, closely supervise and urge children. This is also a preventive measure to prevent children from deviant behavior. This measure cannot be abused.

3. Orders and injunctions. This is the direct requirement of educators for children's behavior norms. Orders and bans cannot be easily withdrawn once they are issued, and children must obey them absolutely.

4. punishment. This is a severe measure taken after the failure of the above methods. Such as: criticism, warning, "standing in the corner", no eating, confinement, corporal punishment (hitting people with a ruler). Herbart also pointed out that "teachers should be calm and strict when they have to take these severe measures, and when things are over, they will seem to forget everything on the surface."

5. Don't give children leisure. Take up all the children's time with closely arranged and rich activities, so that children feel that they have something to do all the time, because "laziness will lead to doing bad things without restraint."

6. Authority and love. This is an auxiliary means of management. Because "people's hearts yield to authority"; Authority can influence children's minds, make the will in the bud tend to be good and avoid evil. Therefore, Herbart suggested that educators should pay attention to their words and deeds in order to improve their authority in the educational process. In addition, the role of "love" can not be underestimated. He advocates that educators should go deep into children's feelings through caressing and caring. Once a child's feelings are aroused, it is easy to manage them. Herbart suggested that parents should play the roles of "authority" and "love" respectively in the family.

Herbart pointed out that management is relatively independent in school education, and there are certain reasonable factors in advocating the establishment of strict rules and regulations, arranging rich and compact school life, and paying attention to the prestige and love of educators. But his whole management of children was based on maintaining the existing order of schools and society, which was conservative at that time. It is also wrong for him to mechanically separate management from moral education; He didn't see that management and enforcement of discipline are also the means and results of education; It is obviously one-sided to regard students as passive controlled objects.