The School Excursion Under The National Calamity

On June6,1929,Tao Xingzhi founded the Xin’an primary school in JiangsuHuaian as his experimental base of "Life education" theory. Shortly after being set up,It suffered from the dual pressure from both domestic and foreign. On the one hand,due to the shortage of funds, the school was struggling; on the other hand, With theintensification of Japan’s aggression against China, the teaching environment wasdeteriorating." Life education" theory pointed out that "what kind of life is what kindof education", under the background of national tragedy, Life education" became into"Anti-Japanese education".In order to promote the anti-Japanese national salvation, and continue to beeducated in the war environment, on October10,1935, under the leadership of theheadmaster of Wang Dazhi,14students of Xin’an primary school, set up the China’sfirst anti-Japanese children and adolescents groups--Xin’an Tours. The group withtao’s Life is education, Society is school" education theory as the instruction, claimsto " the big classroom of national liberation struggle" teaching, learning,doing,bytravel unique way to call on people to study and publicize, took part in the revolution,made a significant contribution to the victory of Anti-Japanese War.It took17yearsfrom the establishment of Xin’an Tours to finish (1935-1952), passing through22provinces,traveling more than50000chinese mile, nearly600successively joinedmembers.Its long-time, large scale, trip way, not only in the modern history of China’stourism called second to none, and to travel in the world history is also an importantcase, therefore, from the perspective of tourism history, research on this topic is ofgreat significance.This article is that the Japanese aggression against China, the situation ofnational calamity was getting worse as the background, research time from1935to1945, mainly researched on Xin’an Tours’s excursion activities to save the nationfrom peril.On this topic research, Not only enriched the research on the diversity ofanti-Japanese war, and strengthened the social function and political significance oftourism. Xin’an Tours’s school excursion which is of the creative education form, theform of struggle, learn form, make them in our national independence and liberationof hard environment institute of living, learning to learn, learning to life, and successfully verified the Tao Xingzhi’s theory of "life education" of the times,scientific and practical.Many of their traditions and experience, for current ongoingreform of education system, the development of quality education;To develop redtourism, carry forward the spirit of patriotism, there are still many importantenlightenment and reference.