A Comparison And Research Between The Zouping And The Yenan Educational Patterns

During the first half of the 20th century, there existed anfractuous and interlaced national contradictions and class contradictions as well in modern Chinese society. In order to resolve the above contradictions, from the point of respective views, many groups and individuals coming from different stratums and factions have carried out many difficult exploration of saving the nation. The Zouping educational pattern conducted by Liang Shuming, the representative of the Chinese intellectual and the Yenan educational patterns lead by Mao Zedong, the representative of the farmer revolutionists were two different ways to save the nation and educational practice. The comparison between them in this article is one kind of non-uniformity comparison. They both started from rural areas, but have very different purpose. The purpose of the former was Cultural Revolution and paid attention to moral education to the farmers, but the latter's was Political Revolution and emphasized on political education. But they faced the same social background , the impoverished country society of the modern China, thus they both had intense indigenous characteristics, namely Sinic color. The success or failure of them both produced far-reaching impact and offered significant enlightenment for the subsequent Chinese education.This thesis consists of six parts :Chapter â…  analyzes the social background of the two patterns. As a result of the Western powers' invasion, the Chinese ethnic crisis exacerbated and the Chinese binary social structure formed. With the emergence and the increasing severity of the problems of the country, the voice of relieving the country and sympathizing the peasants became increasingly strong. Till to the 1920s and 1930s, two main routes were formed to address the problems of rural areas and peasants. That is, the route of village construction and the route of rural revolution.Chapter â…¡ analyzes the core characters of the two different educational patterns ~ Mao Zedong and Liang Shuming's different prejudice including their origins, characteristics, knowledge backgrounds, social roles and philosophy from the perspective of hermeneutic, and then conclude that different prejudice decide their different cognition to China's social history and situation and different models to solve the problem of China.Chapter â…¢ analyzes the cultural theory behind the two models. Yenan educational pattern was created by the Chinese communists with Mao Zedong at the core through localizing the Marxism coming from the Soviet Union based on the utilitarian or practical rationality. And Zouping educational pattern created by Liang Shuming was the product of the combination of the "internal sage and external emperor" thought of traditional Confucianism...