Growth Education: A New Concept of Elementary Education based on “Education as Growth”

Abstract

China's famous educator Mr. Ye Shengtao’s “education is agriculture” and Dewey's “education is growth” metaphor both imply the common educational philosophy of respecting students' subjective status, emphasizing students' subjective initiative and attaching importance to endogenous theory. Based on “Education is agriculture” and “education is growth”, growth education against the shortcomings of traditional education, put forward the educational goals of “the learning to be”, “learning to learn”, “learning to live”, “learning to create”, its core value is “healthy growth”. in terms of curriculum modules: “build a variety of platforms to pay attention to the healthy growth of each student”, in terms of education evaluation: “focus on comprehensive performance, use appreciation to promote the healthy growth of students”, in terms of growth environmental: “based on students, attention to detail, care for the healthy growth of students”. This new educational philosophy has important practical value for the implementation of quality education and core literacy.