杜威与陶行知思想简要对比.pptxVIP

The Comparision between John Dewey and Tao Wentsing;the clues of my content ; Reference: picture;The breif introudction of Tao Wentsing;When Tao was 15, he was enrolled into a missionary school in Shexian County where his mother was a helper. On seeing his talent, the schools principal waived tuition. Tao completed three years of study in two years. In 1909, with financial aid from a church, Tao studied Chinese literature at Nanking University, which merged a year later with the Private University of Nanking, in todays Nanjing in eastern China. After graduation in 1914, Tao continued his education in the United States. In the US, he obtained a masters degree in political science at the University of Illinois and then went on to study education under the guidance of John Dewey, an important American psychologist, philosopher and educational reformer. Dewey was a major representative of progressive education and liberalism. ;But when Tao returned to China in 1917 and began his own career as a liberal educator, he did not blindly champion Deweys progressive education. Instead, he changed the American educators motto of Education is life itself into Life is education. He even changed his original given name Zhixing or knowledge-action into Xingzhi or action-knowledge. Meanwhile, Tao also advocated his ideas of society as school and integration of teaching, learning and acting. To promote mass education, Tao joined hands with Y.C. James Yen, another liberal educator, in organizing a National Association of Mass Education Movements. They recruited thousands of volunteer teachers who at one time taught as many as 5 million students around the country. In 1927, Tao set up Xiaozhuang Normal College in a village in the northern suburbs of Nanjing to train teachers who would teach in rural areas after their graduation. Later, he had also launched the Life Education Association and the Work Study Movement. ;After the Japanese invasion of China began in 1937, Tao cut short a vi