Educational Principles (Second Edition)

Author: Chen Guisheng
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Publish Date: 2000-03-23
Features: The revision of Principles of Education is as follows:
Part I: The framework remains unchanged, but many statements were deleted to simplify the content and make the logic clearer than before.
Part II: It was basically unchanged.
Part III: Two chapters were determined, and some deletions were made.
Part IV: The original manuscript was abandoned, replaced by a systematic examination of Deng Xiaoping's socialist education concept with Chinese characteristics (commonly referred to as "Deng Xiaoping's educational theory").
A brief explanation of these changes:
1. The author has used Principles of Education as a textbook in master's and postgraduate courses for over ten cycles. Overall, the teaching atmosphere was relatively active. Through this, it was found that students' reading difficulties lie in their unfamiliarity with the extensive background materials cited in the book, especially the author's theoretical thinking approach and perspective on examining issues. Students, accustomed to fixed thinking patterns, often encountered collisions.
2. Part II, which covers the broad social background and multifaceted social attributes of education, may be the most difficult part to understand in the entire book.
3. Part III had many deletions. The main change was transforming the original chapter on "The Nature of Education" into two chapters: "Introduction to Education" and "Educational Value Orientation." For the chapter on "Educational Aims," efforts were made to simplify it.
4. Given Deng Xiaoping's guiding principles on socialist education reform and development with Chinese characteristics, and the fact that research on this topic is mixed—some of it is arbitrary and lacks seriousness—the author conducted a systematic examination of the main issues.