Han School Education, And History

As an important part of the well-established history educational tradition in ancient China, Han school's history education has its own content and features. Based on the in-depth analysis of the content, features and influence of Han school's history education, this paper summarizes and concludes its complete educational system. This is beneficial not only to develop the study of history education of the ancient schools, but also to complement the study of the history educational theory of ancient China.Centering on the Han school, guided by historical materialism and combined with academic-related research results, this paper makes a comprehensive exploration on the Han school's history education and some related issues from four aspects. First, based on the basic historical facts, this paper makes a review on the development history of Han school and concludes that education of Han school has four features as follows:Confucius thinking as the direction; Confucius classics as the teaching material; children of common people as its main subject and cultivating the person the country needed as its main teaching objective, etc. Second, this paper makes a detailed survey on the content of Han school's history education and concludes that it includes the teaching of Confucius classics and practical teaching activities. Third, aimed at the features of Han school's history education, this paper makes discussion on the following four aspects:emphasis on feudal moral teaching, multi-level teaching content, varied teaching way and Confucius classics as the media. Last, from the perspectives of social function of history education and sociology, this paper reveals the positive and negative influence of Han school's history education on Han Dynasty. It points out that Han school's history education improved the society of Han Dynasty in such aspects as governing with history, reforming official system, improving socialization of history and social atmosphere. On the other hand, because Han school's history education is obviously scholastic, it led to such political defects as "Notifying and Applying Ancientb Classics" which to some extent prevented the beneficial operation of Han Dynasty.