Re: education experts: the crisis of values is the fundamental crisis of Chinese education.
China Newsweek: so, what do you think the basic education reform should start with?
Ye Lan: where is the starting point for China's education reform? As the starting point of the education reform, the existing reform programs, or the compilation of new curriculum and new teaching materials, or the change of teaching strategies and methods, or the promotion of students' achievements, or the training of new teachers and new principals, are the starting points of the educational reform. But I think that values are the starting point of all education and teaching reform, the crisis of values, the fundamental crisis of Chinese education, and the transformation of education should begin with the transformation of values.
for more than thirty years, my team and I have been committed to the research of "new basic education", which is an educational reform based on the overall transformation of schools. Its "new", first of all new in the "values". We propose to promote the development of students' life as the most fundamental educational values.
"current Chinese education construction
needs to change 'attachment' psychology."
China News Weekly: from the practice of these years, how is the success of the "new basic education" reform? Do you think it can change basic education in China?
Ye Lan: "new basic education" is to deepen the reform, improve the quality of education and the quality of life of teachers and students. This change requires a school to work in one school, to change the ideas of the principals and teachers, to change people, to change schools and to change culture, to turn old I into a new one and to turn modern schools into modern schools.
this job takes time and requires down-to-earth efforts. Once the quality of a school's education is improved, we will let him drive the development of other schools through a joint study, rather than a simple teacher transfer. Because we believe that the development of a school must rely on the growth of its internal strength. So, at the beginning of the cooperative study, I have a request for the leaders of the school affiliated to the "new basic education" in the region that I do not change the principal in five years to ensure the continuous progress of the whole reform.
of course, my team and I are, after all, limited in strength. We never expect that the "new basic education" with a typical grassroots character can change the basic education of the whole country from bottom to top. My wish is to change a teacher, to change a school, to change a region, so that the "fire" is always a "Torch".
we are engaged in "new basic education" just to tell you that a group of people who are persistent in education have taken a different road, and this road is feasible. At the same time, in order to make more people understand the "new basic education", we have built a new school of education, "life and practice" School of education, on the basis of practice.