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Emotion, Reason, Wisdom and the Mean

Rating 2.8
Word count
144K words
Chapters
36
ISBN
9787301265420

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Summary

This book is a compilation of speeches, prefaces, research reports, and articles on primary education that Principal Yin Chao of the Elementary School Affiliated to Peking University has written over the years, reorganized into a relatively complete system. It covers experience summaries and technical discussions on campus management, hardware and team building, curriculum development in Chinese, mathematics, English, and science, as well as the organization of auxiliary educational activities in literature, art, and technology. From these, it articulates the philosophy of implementing joyful learning, student-centered personalized education, and building a campus culture with its own characteristics, thereby embodying the book's central theme that "education with love is so beautiful."

Editor's review

This book is a collection of a primary school principal's years of educational practice and reflection, valuable for re-examining routine matters—campus management, curriculum development, and activity organization—within a "student-centered" educational philosophy. The author's identity brings a strong sense of immediacy: whether hardware and team building, subject curricula in Chinese, mathematics, English, and science, or auxiliary activities in literature, art, and technology, all come from experience summaries and technical discussions grounded in real school operations rather than abstract theory. Reorganized into a relatively complete system, the book lets readers follow the thread of "management—curriculum—activities—culture" to understand how a primary school translates joyful learning and personalized education into concrete details. It suits educators planning school work or reflecting on their own practice, and also suits parents seeking to understand how primary education operates. The text consists mostly of speeches, prefaces, and research articles in a practical style; readers may wish to select chapters relevant to their own roles.

Who it's for

A good fit for

  • Frontline primary school teachers seeking concrete experience in curriculum development and activity organization
  • School administrators interested in overall approaches to campus culture, team, and hardware building
  • Education researchers needing firsthand materials on primary education practice
  • Parents concerned about their children's school life who want to understand how primary education operates

Not a good fit for

  • Professional researchers seeking systematic educational theory or cutting-edge academic argumentation
  • Readers hoping for immediately applicable teaching templates and operation manuals
  • General readers with little interest in primary education topics

Reading tips

  1. Start with the table of contents and select the chapters most relevant to your work by section—management, curriculum, activities, and so on.
  2. As you read each piece, note its original occasion and distinguish the audience and register of speeches, prefaces, and research articles.
  3. Annotate in light of your own school or class, separately recording approaches that can be transferred and those that need adaptation.
  4. After finishing each section, write a brief reflection before moving on, avoiding a single cover-to-cover read that remains too general.

About the publisher

Peking University Press China · Founded in 1979

Peking University Press is a comprehensive university press whose publishing areas cover classical literature, popular science, social culture, world history, Western philosophy, and culture. Its catalogue contains 6,031 titles, with representative books including A Dream of Red Mansions, Relativity: The Special and General Theory (15th Edition) (with Einstein's classic papers on unified field theory and other topics), Elements, Conics, The Aristocratic Families of the Eastern Jin, The Philosophy of Mythology (Volume I), The Philosophy of Mythology (Volume II), and The Origin of Continents and Oceans. Representative authors include Cao Xueqin, Zhou Ruchang, Albert Einstein, Euclid, Apollonius, Tian Yuqing, Schelling, and Xian Gang. The press has developed distinctive strengths in classical Chinese literature and in the translation of Western philosophical classics, while also covering scientific classics and social and cultural studies. As public information is limited, this description is based only on the books in the catalogue and offers no further extrapolation.

Contents

  1. 版权信息
  2. 序 让教育传递人性的温暖
  3. 第一章 放飞理想,共同成长
  4. 第一节 教青思想全体会
  5. 第二节 在文化的沃土上播种希望
  6. 第三节 课堂里走出夹的教青家
  7. 第四节 用心教青的美丽
  8. 第五节 以美青德,文化青人
  9. 第六节 你是我的骄傲,共同放飞理想
  10. 第二章 学玩合一,幸福一生
  11. 第一节 多元文化课程
  12. 第二节 从唱戏到美青
  13. 第三节 科技引领学生创新力
  14. 第四节 隐形的翅膀——为孩子的终生幸福奠基
  15. 第三章 养成教育,快乐童年
  16. 第一节 激励就是赏识
  17. 第二节 个性教青实践
  18. 第三节 一切为了学生发展
  19. 第四节 达成共识,挑战现实
  20. 第五节 未夹教青发展关键词
  21. 第四章 人文浸润,教学整合
  22. 第一节 文化润泽儿童生命
  23. 第二节 腹有诗书气自华
  24. 第三节 生命发展课程的整合构建
  25. 第四节 浅谈校本课程开发的问题与对策
  26. 第五章 跳出课堂,跨越学科
  27. 第一节 “趣味经济学”课程开发方案
  28. 第二节 多学科教学实践创新
  29. 第三节 课程实践研究
  30. 第六章 全局视野,和谐发展
  31. 第一节 发展的硬道理
  32. 第二节 阅读引领学习,语言开启思维
  33. 第三节 从学校课程到学科课程
  34. 第四节 促迸特色发展的校本教研
  35. 第五节 多彩融合,放飞理想
  36. 后记 素质教育的实践

FAQ

Is this book a theoretical work or a compilation of practical experience?
It is closer to a compilation of practical experience. The content comes from the author's years of speeches, prefaces, research reports, and articles on primary education, reorganized into a system. It focuses on experience summaries and technical discussions of campus management, curriculum development, and activity organization rather than constructing abstract theory.
What use is this book to parents outside the education field?
Parents can learn about a primary school's actual considerations in management, curriculum, and activities, understand why the school arranges curricula and activities as it does, and thereby gain a more concrete perspective when communicating with the school and viewing their children's learning life. The book's "student-centered" theme also helps parents reflect on trade-offs in family education.
Can the book's experience be directly copied to other schools?
Direct copying is not advisable. The experience rests on a particular school's conditions, team, and culture; readers would do better to extract its principles and approaches and adapt them to their own school's faculty, students, and resources. The value of the author's technical discussions of curriculum and activity organization lies precisely in offering a reference for discussion rather than a uniform template.

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About the author

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Yin Chao is an author about whom little public information is available. His writing and editorial work spans several fields, including artificial intelligence, law, and examinations. Four of his works are held in the collection. These include Robot Exploration, a school-based textbook for primary and secondary students, and its second edition, which covers basic robotics knowledge and hands-on practice for classroom teaching and introductory reading. HR Compensation and Incentive Skills: A Complete Practical Guide focuses on compensation management and employee motivation in small and medium-sized enterprises, reflecting attention to real-world management issues. The title Qing Li Zhi Zhong suggests a discussion of emotion and reason. Overall, Yin Chao's writing combines science education with practical application, emphasizing usability and accessibility for different groups of readers.