A Comparative Study On The Thoughts Of Industrial Education Between Chang Chih-tung’s And Inoue Kowashi’s

As an early form of the vocational education，the industrial education has much more huge affects not onlyon the development of the industry but also on the destiny of a nation. Both Chang Chih-tung and InoueKowashi have played important part in the modern history of vocational education in their own nation. Theirthoughts of industrial education will be analyzed by the comparative way in the background of the “EasternSpread of Western Civilization” and the invasion from the western colonizer.The study is very valuable. It’s helpful for us to make a thorough inquiry to the reason of rising anddeclining of both the China and the Japan. In addition，we will attain inspiration with special visual angle anddiversified gradation when we carry out the reforming on the vocational education and even the whole education.In other word，we will get enlightenment from the comparative study，when we want to get the foreignexperience. The enlightenment we get can be useful for us to know the way of how refrain from copying andshallow absorbing.The dissertation mainly consists of following parts: Firstly，the concepts which are concerning on industrialeducation will be distinguished and defined. Secondly，both the development of the thoughts of industrialeducation Chang Chih-tung’s and Inoue Kowashi’s will be elaborated. Thirdly，both the similarities and thedifferences will be summarized. Fourthly，the reason of identical and difference will be researched. Finally，thelessons and experience of promotion which the thoughts of industrial education of Chang Chih-tung’s and InoueKowashi’s emerged in the development of the Chinese and the Japanese industrial education will be induced.The similarities include：Both of them advocate integrating the theory with the practice；Both of themmaintain in learning from the foreign advanced experience；Both of them persist in basic tradition of theirhomeland agriculture and education；Both of them think highly of the cultivation of the industrial educationalteachers. The differences include：The origin of their industrial educational thoughts is different；The attitude toconstructing the system of industrial educational founds is distinct；The effects of their industrial educationalthoughts is not alike.It is very complicated for us to comprehend the coexistence of similarities and differences. There areseveral reasons，which involve the political，the economic，the agricultural，the educational，the individual andso on.In a word，we should have an positive and rational attitude to the learning from the foreign advancedexperience. We should centre on the establishing and consummating of legal system in the reforming of thevocational education. And we should integrate the theory with the practice much more well.