Dagongbao And Basic Education In Beijing And Tianjin District (1902-1916)

Basic education is essential to a country's decelopment.During the couse basic education rose up,media played an important role in propagandizing and social mobilizing.The article analyses dagongbao's educational record from the year 1902 to 1916,and tries to find out the function of media to basic education.The construction and the conntent of the article are like follows:The introduction expounds the reasons why the article selects this topic,the basic thought,the material sources,the method as well as the correlative questions,and gives a brief review on the history of studying of the question.Charpter one briefly introduces the general situations of basic education in Beijing and Tianjin district in the beginning of 20^th century,and dagongbao's correlative report.Then analyses dagongbao's efforts in popularizing basic education.Charper two bases on dagongbao's free press and its readers' letters,reviews the discussions about basic education dagongbao made,especially in the issues of education tenet,methods and textbooks.Charpter three emphasises on discussing the skills dagongbao used in the social mobolise.And reveals its importance in the spreading of basic education.The conclusion summarizes the basic viewpoint.In conclusion,as a reformative newspaper,dagongbao took the responsibility to propagandize educational ideas,and mobolized social menbers to take part in the education course.Through dagongbao,readers could freely express their viewpoints about basic education.So in the research of basic education,except for providing rich information,dagongbao's function of social mobilizing could not be neglected.