Zheng Yufei Beijing Normal University
Abstract:The swing phenomenon of Kairov's Pedagogy in China made us think that why Kairov's Pedagogy had such dramatic treatment as a foreign educational theory.In the past 30 years,many achievements have accomplished about the history of Kairov's pedagogy from 1949 to 1957 in China.These research findings have summarized experience and lesson for Chinese education in many different angles,especially for the pedagogic theory construction.
Some researchers suggest that Kairov's pedagogy is lack of theory and like booklet.Some researches propose that Kairov's pedagogy is the production of guiding by Stalin's ideology and it isn't the true main stream of Soviet Union pedagogy.However,Kairov's pedagogy provides operation to teaching procedures,and no one could deny that it can improve the effectiveness of teaching.We should not just notice the driving force of ideology but neglect the theory's regularity.There are many questions and issues should be focused on spreading of Kairov's pedagogy from 1949 to 1957 in China.
1.Introduction
Kairov's pedagogy has experienced twist and turns in Chinese education areas in China.At the beginning of New China,in order to learn advanced education experience,we introduced the Soviet Union pedagogy,especially,in which Kairov's pedagogy was the main part.From 1949 to 1957,Kariov's pedagogy was spreaded widely in Chinese education.But in the education revolution from 1958 and the Cultural Revolution from 1966,Kairov's pedagogy was criticized completely.At the dawn of the 21st century,with the new curriculum reform advanced,some experts suggested that Kariov's pedagogy was a ghost and flickering and a new criticize movement to Kariov's pedagogy was raised again.
The new curriculum reform is a Copernican Revolution in education which is directed by western advanced education ideas.Like fifties years ago,today a new movement that aims at learning advanced foreign education ideas across China,however,the reference standard changes and the standard of selecting reference is altered,too.Why external ideas upper most the mainstream of education theory since the PRC established? Will the campaign encounter the same destiny as Kariov's pedagogy in China ?Many researches have made lots of researches on this issue since reform and open up to the outside world in 1978.These researches have summarized systematically the history of Kairov's pedagogy in China from1949 to 1957 and the effects on Chinese pedagogy.Nowadays carding the researches on Kairov's pedagogy at the dawn of new China since 1978 may improve the reflection on the learning from foreign educational ideas when assimilating the achievements of education civilizations the world over today.