Chinese Society and Education, the Sociality of Education

The sociality of education is the fundamental attribute of education and a phenomenon unique to human beings. It is carried out through language and writing, which are unique products of human society.

After the separation of production and labor, education assumed an independent social function, and became an activity dedicated to the transmission of social life experience and the cultivation of people, with the ultimate goal of socializing people.

The sociality of education is the fundamental attribute of education.

1) Education is a phenomenon unique to human society and a social activity that cultivates people. Education is mainly carried out through language and writing, and both language and writing are products of human society and are unique to human society.

In primitive societies, education was not yet separated from other social activities, but was closely linked to the most basic social practice of productive labor. Since the separation of other social activities, education has assumed an independent social function, and has become a social activity dedicated to transmitting the experience of social life and cultivating people, with the ultimate goal of socializing people.

2) The nature and development of education is constrained by the nature and level of development of society.

The theory of biological origin does not grasp the sociality of human education, fails to distinguish the difference between human educational behavior and animal educational behavior, and the psychological origin theory of education denies the consciousness of education, and their common feature is that it denies the sociality of education.

Social education, in a broad sense, refers to social education activities that affect the physical and mental development of individuals in parallel with school education and family education.

In China, in the 29th year of Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty, in the ninth issue of the "Study Tour Translation" "Education Theory" article, education was divided into three categories: family education, school education and social education, and proposed that the power of family education is small, and the power of school education and social education is large, social education undertakings such as farmers' farming study classes and reading offices.

Social education, in a broad sense, refers to social education activities that affect the physical and mental development of individuals in parallel with school education and family education; In a narrow sense, it refers to the educational activities of various cultural and life knowledge carried out by social and cultural educational institutions for young people and the people.

In China, in the 29th year of Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (1903), in the article "General Theory of Education" in the ninth issue of the "Study Tour Translation and Editing", education was divided into three categories: family education, school education and social education, and proposed"The power of family education is small, while the power of school education and social education is large"。In the 34th year, the Qing Dynasty promulgated the "Simple Literacy School Program". In the first year of Xuantong (1909), a simple school was formally established, and social education undertakings such as a half-day school for workers, a study class for peasants, and a reading office were established.

In 1912, the Ministry of Education established the Department of Social Education, which began to be officially used"Social education"word.

Social education, in a broad sense, refers to social education activities that affect the physical and mental development of individuals in conjunction with school education and family education.

In China, in the 29th year of Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty, in the ninth issue of the "General Theory of Education" in the "Study Tour Translation and Edition", the education was divided into family education, school education and social education, and proposed that the power of family education is small, and the power of school education and social education is large. Social education undertakings such as half-day schools for workers, classes for peasants and reading offices have been set up.