An Analysis Of Xia Mianzun's Perspectives On Chinese Education

This is a case study based on a philological educationalist named Xia Mianzun. The research methods employed include case study, literary and historical methods. The research on Xia Mianzun's perspectives of Chinese Education has got a preliminary achievement by now.For the in-depth investigation into Xia Mianzun's Chinese education thoughts, I have compiled a yearbook of XMZ's great events and a annalistic diagram of X's discourses. I have studied the whole process of his Chinese education perspectives since I comprehensively collected these all round reliable data. A system of X's education thoughts was built from the philosophical, the cultural and specific layer and the frame of X's Chinese education thought was constructed.The in-depth discussion of X's education thoughts is of great significant to untilize its vitality and promote the Chinese educational reform.To begin with, this thesis inspects X's education thought in a big social background, and find out how it is evolved by analyzing the current situations from home and abroad, according to the social development and discipline of Chinese education.Next, this thesis tries to construct X's ET system from three aspects: first of all, it presents the core of his ET---Affection Education from the philosophic level; then, it expounds his New Cultural ET from the dimension of culture; finally, it expatiates X's comprehensive Chinese ET from the concrete subject.To conclude, this thesis sums up the significance and limitation of X's ET.We ought to adopt the historical materialism viewpoint when researching on X's ET , utilize the most animated part, combine with the practical needs and endow it with new vitality, which can contribute to the present and future Chinese education reform.