Abstract
The transformation of social civilization requires corresponding transformation of education. Contemporary China is undergoing a dual transformation of modernization and post modernization of educational models, each of which involves educational concepts, educational goals, disciplines and settings and a series of other factors, such as teaching methods, the relationship between teaching and learning, and the evaluation of teaching effectiveness, all of which constitute a systematic project. The modernization of education in China can be achieved by learning from the modernized educational models in developed Western countries and regions and by promoting international cooperation in education. As there is no established model for postmodern educational transformation to learn from, we need to take the initiative to face the problems emerging in the transformation and explore them actively in order to find solutions in the context of international cooperation. The modernization of education requires us to shift from the traditional focus on knowledge to the equal emphasis on knowledge and skills together, and to cultivate students' self-directed learning ability. Postmodern educational models are on the way to form up. However, if we make full use of new media and information technology to cultivate students’ aesthetic consciousness and ability that embody the entertainment trend of postmodern culture, as well as other characteristics in internet+, culture+ society, we will probably achieve a great progress in the transformation.
Highlights
Education enables humans to acquire knowledge, open up their minds, improve their cognitive abilities and practices, and exercise the development of human intellectual potential in the course of human life, aging, illness, and death, so as to help humans to achieve self-realization; the effectiveness of education directly affects the development of material and spiritual civilization in society
The development of social civilization and the International Journal of Literature and Arts 2020; 8(2): 62-69 improvement of human production and living standards will inevitably lead to corresponding new requirements on education
From the perspective of education in a strict sense of scale, human society has undergone a transformation from an educational model adapted to empirical cultural pattern in an agricultural civilization to a model adapted to a rationalist cultural pattern in an industrialized civilization
Summary
Education enables humans to acquire knowledge, open up their minds, improve their cognitive abilities and practices, and exercise the development of human intellectual potential in the course of human life, aging, illness, and death, so as to help humans to achieve self-realization; the effectiveness of education directly affects the development of material and spiritual civilization in society. China’s modernization and industrialization are progressing rapidly, but due to the profound and long tradition of agricultural civilization with geographical and demographic diversities, the transformation of social industrialization in mid and west China is far from complete; on the other hand, since the end of last century, early opening-up regions in the coastal and eastern areas have already entered the post-industrial stage. This leads China’s education to a double transformation: from traditional education to modern education, and further to the education model corresponding to the information civilization age. It is against this background–the dual transformations of civilization and the deepening of international cooperation– that the paper discusses the tasks, problems, and countermeasures emerging during the process of the dual transformations of educational model
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