陶行知的乡村教育改造思想和实践述评

作为“人民教育家”,陶行知立足乡村,把改造乡村教育作为改造中国社会的出发点。他认为旧的乡村教育已不适合建设乡村社会的需要,必须另辟生路,即建立适合乡村社会实际生活的“活教育”。这种“活教育”要按试验期、训练期和布种期3个阶段有计划、有步骤地进行。

Tao Xingzhi's thoughts and practice on rural education

As a people's educationist,Tao Xingzhi had his feet firmly planted in rural area and regarded the reform of rural education as the starting point of social reform.He held that the old rural education could not meet with the requirements of building rural society in China.Therefore,it was high time to find a new way,that is to establish "living education"to conform to the actual life in rural area,which should be conducted systematically through three procedures:experimenting period,training period and spreading period.