杜威教师观的实质及其启示

Dewey’s View of Teachers and Its Edification for the New Era

杜威以类比的方式描述教师角色,表达了他希望通过教育实现社会民主的愿望,带有明显的宗教痕迹与理想主义色彩。杜威围绕其教师观的精髓——“教师是学生思维发展的领导者”——对教师这一支撑性角色做了不同表述,丰富了教师角色的多样性。但杜威将教育者与教师等同的理解方式,在某种程度上导致教师概念过度泛化,模糊了家庭、学校、社会不同场域的育人特征与方式。新时代下,要客观地把握杜威教师观的现实意义,秉持取其精华、去其糟粕的科学理性观点。

John Dewey describes the roles of teacher with an analogy to express his expectation not only for democracy from education, but also embodying his religion vestige and ideals. Centering on "Teacher as leader of student's thinking development",Dewey also describes some supporting roles of teacher,which enriches the teacher's diversity of roles. But Dewey regards educator as equal to teacher, which in some sense makes the concept of teacher too generalized,resulting in theindistinct range of education of family, school and society. To learn the modern significance of Dewey's view of teachers, we should see both its advantages and disadvantages so as to get its essence and discard its demerits.