“青年期”知识的引入与民国时期青年研究

The Introduction of the Knowledge of Adolescence and the Youth Research in the Republic of China Era

青年期的发现和青年研究是现代社会的产物。在现代中国,青年研究的兴起不仅是社会变迁的结果,还明显受到国外青年研究的影响。五四新文化运动后期,国外青年期研究著作被翻译介绍到中国,"青年期"知识的引入开启了民国学界关于青年心理及行为的研究。同时,知识学人尝试运用科学的方法,针对中国的青年进行调研,形成一系列的学术成果。社会上报刊媒体开辟专栏讨论青年问题,学校设置青年心理学课程,青年期新知识得到传播并应用于教育实践,青年研究逐步走向科学化。

The discovery of adolescence and the youth research are the results of modern society. In contemporary China, the beginnings of youth research are not only the product of social transitions, but are obviously influenced by such academic studies aboard as well. In the later stage of the May Fourth New Culture Movement, the foreign works on youth research were translated into Chinese, and the introduction of adolescence knowledge led the beginning of the research into psychology and behavior of the youth. Meanwhile, the scholars tried to study the Chinese youth with the scientific methods and scored a series of academic successes. Specialized columns were set in social newspaper media, courses on youth psychology were taught in schools, new knowledge of adolescence was spread and used in educational practices, and the study on youth was developing gradually by scientific approach.