The Research On The Thoughts Of Vocational Guidance During The Republic Of China

The thoughts of vocational guidance in the period of the Republic of China was an important phenomenon of innovation in the Chinese educational and ideological field stimulated by the world trend. At first, it mainly input and spread foreign theory and practice of vocational guidance, and then formed unique discourse system of thoughts and practice transmission system combined with Chinese situations. A number of intellectual elites participated actively in this project of Chinese society, especially the education communities, such as Huang Yanpei, Zou Taofen, Gu Shusen Jiang Wenyu, He Qingru, Zheng Wenhan, Yang Weiyu, Zhong Daozan, Pan Wenan, Liu Zhanen, Qin Hancai, etc. With foreign theory of occupational guidance and personal practice as the basis, schools and research institutions as a platform, magazines and media as the carrier, the government and educational administration's support as power, they paid close attention to and actively explored in the contents of career guidance in China. They also left plenty of spiritual wealth and practice experience about the vocational guidance, forming a comparatively scientific, systematic and rich thoughts of vocational guidance. Studying the thoughts of vocational guidance in the period of the Republic of China will contribute to further review of the basic orientation to the development of education and contained profound contradictions at that time, and help to deeply and richly analyze educational thoughts of the educators and help more to reveal the basic rules of the Chinese social transformation from the angle of education to understand every aspect of the whole outline and basic characteristics of the whole Chinese society. The research will have important academic values and practical significance.The paper includes introduction, main body including five chapters.The introduction states the historical and realistic significance about studying the thoughts of vocational guidance in the period of the Republic of China, combs and summarizes on the main research results of the theme, emphasizes that the thoughts of vocational guidance in the period of the Republic of China is an important subject needing further research and puts forward the train of research and structure and main innovations of the paper.The main body includes five chapters. The first chapter discusses the origin of the thoughts of vocational guidance in the period of the Republic of China. The reasons why the thoughts of vocational guidance in the period of the Republic of China were rising and developing were that Chinese vocational guiders input and spread the foreign occupation career guidance theory and practice, the inheritance and development of traditional Chinese vocational guidance, the acknowledgement to the dilemma of Chinese profession and carried out by the practice that professional instructors on the vocational guidance at that time.From Chapter Two to Chapter Four, the paper analyses the main content of the thoughts of vocational guidance in the period of the Republic of China. During the period of the Republic of China, Chinese professional guiders discussed vocational guidance suited the Chinese national condition as follows:First, it is about the basic theory of vocational guidance, such as the vocational guidance meaning, significance, principles and methods, the existing problems etc. Second, it is about the school vocational guidance. The school is the main organ implement vocational guidance during the period of the Republic of China, Chinese vocational career guidance pointed out that the vocational guidance in elementary school should make children prepare for their lives, middle school's vocational guidance should pay attention to students'future and college's vocational guidance should solute the career of students etc. Third it is about the special problems of vocational guidance:women's vocational guidance and rural vocational guidance. The Chinese professional guiders indicated that women's vocational guidance should match social organizations and rural vocational guidance should guide them in the development of their own unit.On the basis of analysis and discussions of preceding sections, Chapter Five simply summarizes and explains the historical role of the thoughts of vocational guidance in the period of the Republic of China, and makes clear realistic enlightenment of the thoughts to the development and systematic formation of China's vocational guidance nowadays.