“做一个快乐的教育者”:斯宾塞的教师角色观论析

“To Be a Happy Educator”:An Analysis of Spencer’sConcept of the Role of Teachers

英国著名教育家斯宾塞是西方教育史上快乐教育的倡导者,他建构的教师角色观充满快乐意蕴。在斯宾塞的视域中,教师应扮演儿童学习兴趣和求知欲的诱导者、快乐教育的彰显者、儿童实施自我教育的推动者、自然教育的守护者、儿童情感教育的涵育者、儿童终身受益习惯的培养者等角色。斯宾塞教师角色观的思想基础有快乐教育理念、自我教育理念、自然教育理念。斯宾塞的教师角色观给我们带来诸多启示:教育应依靠快乐教育,促进学生的全面发展;实施快乐教育,为学生减负保驾护航;充满情感地教学,做一个激情之师;推动儿童实施自我教育,成为快乐的赋予者。

Spencer,a famous British educator,is an advocate of happy education in the history of Western education.His concept of the role of teachers is full of happy connotations.In Spencer’s vision,teachers should play the roles of the inducer of children’s interest in learning and thirst for knowledge,the demonstrator of happy education,the promoter of children’s self-education,the guardian of natural education,the nurturer of children’s emotional education,and the cultivator of life-long beneficial habits.The ideological basis of Spencer’s concept of the role of teachers includes the concept of happy education,the concept of self-education and the concept of natural education.Spencer’s concept of the role of teachers has brought us many inspirations,such as relying on happy education to promote the all-round development of students,implementing happy education to reduce students’burdens,teaching with emotion and being a passionate teacher,promoting children’s self-education to make them the happiness givers.