1. Education is "life", "growth" and "experience transformation"

Education can convey the accumulated experience of human beings, enrich the content of human experience, and enhance the experience to guide life and adaptation. social ability, thereby maintaining and developing social life.

2. Education without purpose

In Dewey’s mind, in an undemocratic and unequal society, education is only a purpose imposed on the educated by external forces. It is different in a democratic society, where atheism should be pursued.

3. School is society

Dewey believed that people's participation in real life in society is the proper way for physical and mental growth and transformation experience. Therefore, teachers should turn the classroom where knowledge is taught into a paradise for children's activities, guide children to actively and voluntarily participate in activities, and unconsciously develop moral character and acquire knowledge from the activities, so as to achieve the transformation of life, growth and experience.

4. Teaching theory

Based on the theory that education is the transformation of life, growth and experience, Dewey discussed issues such as teaching materials and teaching methods. Make an argument that is different from traditional ideas.

5. Theory of Moral Education

Dewey said: "Morality is the highest and ultimate goal of education." "The moral process and the educational process are unified." In Dewey's view, Moral education plays an important role in education. Dewey strongly emphasized that morality is the force that drives society forward.

6. Child-centrism

Dewey proposed the idea of ??"child-centrism" in the process of criticizing old education, that is to say, "creating the new" in the "obsolete" of.

In Dewey's view, in traditional education, "the focus of the school is outside the children, in the teachers, in the textbooks, and anywhere else you like, except for the children's own immediate instincts and activities. "In ", textbooks "are the main representatives of past knowledge and wisdom", and "teachers are the body that effectively connects students with teaching materials. Teachers are the spokespersons who impart knowledge and skills and implement codes of conduct."

Extended information:

The influence of Dewey’s educational thought:

1. Emphasis on the unity of knowledge and action, turning dead knowledge in teaching into living knowledge.

2. The view that education is the interaction between people and the environment is a transcendence and breakthrough of the internal theory and the external theory.

3. The view that education is growth and life explores the essence of education from a psychological perspective. The essence of education is summarized as education is life, education is growth, and education is experience.

4. Education is experience. Explore the essence of education from an epistemological perspective and solve the problems of acquisition of knowledge and experience, as well as the coordination between psychology and society, process and purpose.

5. Education is life and school is society, which unifies individuals and society from a social perspective. Connect school life with students’ life experiences to solve the problem of disconnection between education and society.

6. The teaching materials are psychological, suitable for the psychological development of students' experience, rather than logical sequence.

7. The scientificization of teaching methods and the spirit of inquiry make the scientific spirit an important part of teaching.

8. Teaching major, improve the subject status of education and enhance academic quality. Under its influence, a large number of educational professional institutions were established.

9. Dewey has a worldwide influence. His educational theory plays a huge role in the world's education process and has a direct impact on Japan, China, Turkey, the Soviet Union, Mexico and other countries.

10. Dewey’s theory places too much emphasis on children’s center, activity center, and experience center, causing educational practice to neglect the teaching of systematic knowledge, and triggers many contradictions such as freedom and discipline, teacher-student relationship, etc. In addition, the idea of ??compiling new teaching materials based on experience and the principles of psychological teaching materials is too ideal and difficult to realize.

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