后现代观地小学教师教育.docx

Primary school teacher education from a postmodernist perspective Abstract In this thesis I try to sort out, analyze and investigate the problems of the education of primary school teachers in the educational innovation by adopting the principles of postmodernism. Based on this analysis, an inspiring method will be provided to the primary school teacher education reform in a postmodern perspective. Postmodernism is a popular Western philosophical and cultural trend of thought in the late 20th century. As the most influential ideological trend in the West, postmodernism has aroused great interest among scholars because it has opened up a new theoretical space, the research perspective of which has been restricted by the traditional scientific research and logical deduction. This new space is more for thinking and criticism and it compels us to introspect our basic premise, method and way of practice and enforces more people to rethink their theory and political assumptions and by reexamining the familiar concepts and theoretical scope, to produce new theories and practice. It brings out a brand-new and all-embracing thinking about the primary school education reform, curriculum system, pedagogical mode and primary school teacher education system. Nowadays the educational innovation emphasized on the basic curriculum reform has marched into a new stage of development. On this turning point Chinese teacher education reform is facing up with a practical problem, i.e. how to update the ideas and how to make innovations. In the field of teacher education, that of the primary school teacher can not afford to be neglected not only because its number is the largest, but that primary school teachers constitute a special group with more distinct characteristics compared with teachers of other educational stages. In this case it is required to adopt a primary school teacher reform with corresponding particularity to cultivate competent primary school teachers. On by adopting a