“儿童中心主义”及其当代教育启示

Child-Centered Theory and its Enligtenment to Contemporary Education—— A Sense of Reading Dewey's "Democracy and Education"

"儿童中心主义"是杜威教育思想的重要内容,它是在"本能说"的基础上提出的,具有丰富的理论内涵。以此审视我国中小学教育,不难发现存在着教师本位、教育标准化严重、学生课业负担重等背离"儿童中心"的教育现象。对此要把杜威的儿童中心教育思想与我国教育的实际情况结合起来,转变教师理念,尊重儿童个性、因材施教,减少学生课业负担等以缓解我国应试教育压抑儿童天性的现实状况。

Child-centered theory is the important content of Dewey education theory. It was presented on the ba-sis of instinct theory and has rich theoretical connotation.Taking this view of our primary and middle school edu-cation, it is not difficult to find that there exists teacher center, sever education standardization,and studentschoolwork burden,which deviate from child-centered theory. So we should combine Dewey ＇s education theorywith the actual situation of our education, changing teachers＇ concept, respect children personality and reducingthe student schoolwork burden.