Come closer to Wang Wenli - Chinese Language Makes Me So Beautiful

Author: Wang Wenli
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Publish Date: 2006-03-01
Features: As is well known, the new curriculum reform sets its goals across three dimensions: knowledge and skills, processes and methods, and attitudes and values, shifting the objectives of China's basic education from "knowledge-cognition" to "the entire realm of life." So, how can we infuse vitality into our language education? How can we make our language education practice what Tagore said, "The purpose of education should be to breathe life into people"? Teacher Wang Wenli provides the best answer with her classroom. Take her lesson "Love" as an example—In this lesson, Teacher Wang uses the children's poems "I Still Have One Leg" and "Keep Living" by a 9-year-old girl from Taiwan who suffered from soft tissue malignant tumors and had one leg amputated while fighting the disease. She brings in the resilience and elasticity of life, encouraging students to recognize, challenge, and transcend themselves based on their perception of language. This gives us much inspiration: Language education should highlight the spiritual essence of language learning, focusing on students' spiritual experiences gained through texts, thereby achieving spiritual growth; Language education should emphasize the creation of engaging contexts, "searching for captivating situations" and "situations that reveal profound and significant spiritual insights and true meanings" (Hegel's Aesthetics); Language education should break through the classroom-based model of language learning, emphasizing integration and holism, taking classroom teaching as the core to expand and extend into various aspects of students' lives, organically combining with their school life, family life, and social life, transforming it into a comprehensive form of learning.