儿童身心发展中的自然与自由

儿童“身”系自然,“心”向自由;儿童身心和谐发展,即儿童“身”之自然与“心”之自由的和谐发展。在儿童自由活动的不同领域,“和谐”有不同的表现形式,但却内存着“血脉亲情”性的本质联系。开发儿童潜能和自然生命力即开发儿童自由活动能力。中国的旧式教育割断自然与自由之间的“血脉亲情”,通过否定人的自然属性来扼杀人的自由天性和创造性,只能培养出自然观念和自由观念双重缺失的“人才”。儿童“身”系自然导引出教育的自然原则,“心”向自由导引出教育的社会原则,强调双重原则并存且并重,方可克服我国传统教育中“社会原则”单极化偏向造成的弊端,方可获致儿童生命发展的整全性和和谐性。

Nature and Freedom in Children's Physical and Mental Development

Born in the nature, children are desirous of freedom. A harmonious physical and mental development of children lies in the improvement of correspondence between nature and freedom. Beneath various forms of harmony in different areas of children's activity lies an inner relationship linked by blood. The development of children's potentiality and vitality depends on the exploration of children ?free activities. Under China's traditional education, children's desire of freedom and their creativity were killed, their natural character was denied, and the relationship between nature and freedom was cut off. In such a circumstance, only the so -called "talents" come about who lacked the concept of nature and freedom. Children's natural character calls for the principle of nature, and their goals for freedom lead to the social principle. Only by attaching great importance to the co - existence of these two principles could we overcome the disadvantages caused by the one - sided focus on social principle in traditional education and achieve in on all - round and harmonious development of children in their life.