The Harmonious Development Of The West "," The Historical Evolution Of Educational Thought Of Quality Education

This thesis is about the historical evolvement of the"harmony education"theory. "Harmony education" theory has been existing in educational fieldfor hundreds of years. At each historical period, there were someeducators and thinkers who talked about the"harmony education" and theyoffered their own education theory respectively. Each of these educatorsoffered their definition of"nature", "harmony", "fully functioning person"and so on. Their theories are different and distinct, while at the sametime all the theories are wonderful.This is a comparative study of the ancient western educational theoriesand its light to modern Chinese educational system and theories. In Chinanowadays, education is far more complicated than that in former decades.So, learning from the historical educational theories is of greatimportance.There are altogether three parts in this thesis. The first is about thewestern historical evolvement of the"harmony education" theory. I discussit in seven historical periods. They are, ancient Greece, the Renaissance,the bourgeois revolution, the Enlightenment, 19th century, first half ofthe 20th century and modern days. In each period, some educators andthinkers presented their education theory, some put it into practice.In the second part, I discuss the characteristics of the"harmonyeducation" theory. Although the theory runs a long time, there are somesame characteristics in different ages, such as their educational motive,educational content, educational process, and educational method. In thethird part, I discuss the enlightenment of the western"harmony thought"to Chinese educational reform, both theoretically and practically.In China nowadays, "quality education" is in process. I believe reviewingthe historical evolvment of the western"harmony educution" theory andlearning its characteristics could be of some help to Chinese educationreform.