杜威职业教育思想的形成及影响

Abstract

Dewey was born in a grocer’s family in Burlington, Vermont, in the northeast of the United States in the mid-19th century. He spent his whole schooling in the United States. In college, Dewey, who loved reading, was deeply influenced by Hegel’s philosophy and Hall’s psychology, which became an important foundation for later educational research. Dewey has long served in universities such as the University of Chicago and Columbia University. On the premise of critically absorbing the theories of educators such as Rousseau, Pestalozzi, and Frobel, he carried out in-depth teaching experiments, established the “Dewey School”, and proposed and verified the vocational education ideas of “learning by doing” and “active work” in practice. Dewey’s vocational education ideas gave birth to a new type of educational institution in the United States - the comprehensive high school, and had a huge impact on the rise of the new professionalism movement. At the same time, Dewey’s vocational education ideas deeply inspired Tao Xingzhi and Huang Yanpei’s vocational education ideas, deepened the public’s cognition of the status of vocational education in China, and promoted the reform of vocational education schools and institutions and the cultivation of vocational education teachers in China.