Dewey's theory is representative of the modern theory of education, different from the traditional education "classroom Center" "teaching centers", "teacher center" and "old three-center theory", he proposed "Children's Center (Student Center)" "activity center" "experience center "of the" new three-centrism. "
(A) Education is "Life," "growth" and "experience transformation"
Education can transfer the accumulated human experience, rich content of human experience, enhance the experience and ability to adapt to social life guidance, thereby maintaining the social life together and developed. Broadly speaking, personal contacts with people in social life and influence each other, gradually enlarging and improving experience, to develop moral character and the acquisition of knowledge and skills, is education. Since the transformation of experience must be closely and life became one, and the transformation of experience can encourage personal growth, he concluded that Dewey "Education is Life", "education is growing," education is the "experience of transformation."
(B) Education without teleology
In Dewey's mind, in undemocratic, unequal society, education is only an external force imposed on the purpose of the educated. In a democratic society is different, it should be pursued without teleology. But in reality, the class struggle and proletarian revolution increasingly intensified era, Dewey is emphasis on education in improving the effectiveness of social, educational purposes Dewey bourgeois theory is obvious.
(C) "school that is society"
Dewey think people participate in real life in society, is the proper channels and transform the experience of physical and mental growth. So knowledge of classroom teachers to teach children's activities should become a park, and guide children to actively put into voluntary activities, unwittingly develop character and acquire knowledge from activities to achieve the transformation of life, growth and experience.
(D) Teaching
Dewey education is life, growth theory and empirical basis for the transformation of teaching material and methods and other topics. And the traditional concept of making different discussion.
1, in the choice of materials, Dewey recommended that "the true center of interrelated school subjects, not science ...... but the child's own social activities." Specifically, the school arrangements for a variety of jobs, the introduction of basic human affairs to the school, as school textbooks.
2, in teaching methods, Dewey advocated "learning by doing", he believes children are not active and knowledge from the lectures and reading obtained is Xumiao.
(E) Moral Education
Dewey said: "Morality is the highest and ultimate purpose of education." "Moral education process and the process is unified" Dewey, moral education plays an important role in education. Dewey strong emphasis on ethics is the driving force of social progress. In terms of implementation, Dewey advocated first "culture moral character of children by activities", followed by the required combination of intellectual achieve moral purpose. Furthermore, he attached great importance to the role of education and moral education method.
(Vi) Center on Children
Dewey is that "child-centered" in criticizing the old idea of education in the process, that is, in the "old" in "establishing the new". Dewey, in traditional education there, "center of gravity outside of school children, teachers, textbooks and wherever you are happy, are not alone in their own immediate instinct and activities for children," textbook "is in the past the main representative of the knowledge and wisdom "and" teachers are teaching students and effectively link the organism, the teacher is to impart knowledge and skills and to implement the code of conduct of the advocate. " Thus, the traditional educational shortcomings are obvious: "The traditional teaching of the program essentially from above and outside it to instill adult standards, teaching materials and methods imposed only is gradually growing and maturing children are gaps. so great, prescribed textbooks, learning and methods of action for the existing capacity of children who are not related. ...... although good teachers want to use artistic techniques to disguise this mandatory, in order to reduce obviously the kind of brutal nature, they still must be taught to children. "As traditional education to education" center of gravity "on the top teachers and textbooks, rather than on instinct and children's activities, so that children can only suffer." training "," direction and control "and" brutal authoritarian repression. " Way to remove this malady is to shift the focus of education achieved. "We will change education is due to the transfer of the center of gravity, which is a change, this is a revolution, and this is Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Earth from the Sun to the same kind of revolution. Here, children change He became the sun, and all measures of education they turn it around; children's center, and educational measures will be organized around their "center of gravity shifted from teacher education, teaching children where the body, this is Dewey advocated." new Education "(or" progressive education "), that is" child-centered "education.