陶行知与现代性

The Characteristics of Tao Xingzhi's Modernity

陶行知的“现代性”是在其即行即知、即知即传、即传即联、即联即前的全人生旅途中屡败屡战、屡遭厄运,而又屡屡创造以促进现代文明。陶行知在生活教育运动中确定了现代化为运动的目标,他在现代化中寻求确定性。他提出了两个新命题:一是与时俱进,“做一个长久的现代人”,二是持续发展,“保证川流不息的现代性”。这正是当今后现代性社会所面临的两个重大问题。从而也使我们有了借以理解后现代性的思想资源。

The characteristics of Tao Xingzhi＇s modernity can be found in these aspects： putting his theories into practice immediately, passing on his knowledge to others straightaway, and integrating teaching closely with the reality in the present-day society. In spite of confronting failures and frustrations one after another in all his life, he persistently moved forWard, keeping fighting all his way, and his efforts and initiative ideas gave impetus to the development of the modern civilization in China. Tao Xingzhi made it clear that the goal of the life education movement should be directed at modernization, and certainty would be approached in the process of modernization. He that one keep pace with the times and ＂be a lifetime modern man＂ and that the development of modernization be sustainable so as to ＂guarantee its continuity＂ , which are also the two key issues for the present post-modern society as well as our thought resource for understanding post-modernity.