20世纪20年代平教运动与现代国民教育——以平民千字课本为中心

从本质上讲,中国现代平民教育运动是一场国民教育运动。20世纪20年代公民教育运动兴起后,晏阳初等人虽然也曾致力于此,但无论从其思想认识还是从社会实践上看,均不出国民教育的范围。平民教育运动在塑造现代国民方面的主要贡献,是向底层社会播散现代国家观念和国民意识,这从当时编写的平民千字课本中可以看出来。平教运动期间通过平民千字课向底层社会播散现代国家观念与国民意识的做法,对我们今天完成民族复兴大业,仍有着重要的借鉴意义。

The Mass Education Movement and the Modern National Education in the 1920s:Centering on the Textbook of One Thousand Chinese Characters for Civilians

The Mass Education Movement was essentially a kind of national education movement in modern China.After the rise of the Civic Education Movement in the 1920s,James Yen and others had been devoted to the development of this movement.But no matter from the perspective of their ideological understanding or from the angle of their social practices,their civic education movement was undoubtedly within the scope of national education.The main contribution of the Mass Education Movement on shaping the modern nationals was to disseminate the concept of modern state and national consciousness to the lower level of the society,which could be seen from the compilation of the textbook of one thousand Chinese characters for civilians at that time.Even today,the Mass Education Movement’s act of disseminating the concept of modern state and national consciousness to the lower level of the society through the textbook of one thousand Chinese characters for civilians still has important reference value for us to achieve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.