农业教育、农村教育与农村改进的内涵及关系——乡村建设时期江恒源对上述问题的界定与阐释

Connotation and Relationship of Agricultural Education,Rural Education and Rural Improvement——Definition and Interpretation of Jiang Hengyuan in Period of Rural Construction

农业教育、农村教育和农村改进是一组内涵相对独立而又相互依存、相互促进的概念群。界定其内涵,阐明其关系,是20世纪20年代末职业教育由城市转向农村的客观要求,也是中华职业教育社开展农村改进事业迫切需要解决的理论问题。江恒源基于“大教育观”的科学认识,丰富和拓展了农村教育和农村改进的内涵,划清了农村教育与农业教育的边界,在中国近代职业教育史上具有开创意义,对于当下推进农业农村现代化具有重要启示。

Agricultural education,rural education and rural improvement are a group of concepts that are relatively independent,interdependent and mutually reinforcing.Defining theirs connotation and clarifying their relationship are the objective requirements for vocational education to shift from urban area to rural area in the late 1920s.It is also a theoretical problem that Chinese Vocational Education Society urgently needs to solve in carrying out rural improvement.Based on the scientific understanding of the“Great Education Concept”,Jiang Hengyuan enriched and expanded the connotation of rural education and rural improvement,and laid out the boundary between rural education and agricultural education.It has a pioneering significance in the history of modern vocational education in China,and it has important implications for the current modernization of agriculture and rural areas.