我国超常教育先驱者沈亦珍的教育思想与实践

沈亦珍是我国现代超常教育的先驱者。他于1936年获美国哥伦比亚大学教育学博士学位,曾任中央大学教育学教授。早在20世纪30至40年代,沈亦珍就提出了超常教育的思想,并且进行了超常教育的实践探索,他的超常教育思想包括超常人才的客观性、超常教育的重要性、超常教育的特殊性、超常教育的实践性与创造性等观点。抗日战争胜利后,沈亦珍在上海中学主持实施超常教育实验计划。当年参与实验的师生的反映表明,超常教育的效果是显著的。从当时受到实验影响的上海中学学生的后期发展来看,超常教育的意义是深远的。沈亦珍的超常教育思想与实践已经在我国超常教育的发展史上留下了厚重的记录。

Educational ideas and practice of Shen Yi-zhen, a pioneer of talent education in China

Shen Yi zhen was the pioneer of talent education in modern China. He graduated from Columbia University of U. S. A. and received docter's degree of education in 1936. Early in the 1930s and 1940s, he advanced the ideas of talent education and started the practice of telent education in China.Shen Yi zhen's ideas of talent education consist of the objectivity of talented children, the importance and particularity of talent education, the practical and creative characteristics of talent education, etc. After the War of Resistance Against Japan, Shen Yi zhen directed the experiment plan of talent education putting into effect in Shanghai Middle School. The reflection of teachers and students who took part in the experiment indicated that the talent education had tangible results. According to the later development of the students of Shanghai Middle School who were affected by the experiment at that time, the talent education have profound significance.In short, Shen Yi zhen's educational ideas and practices of talent education left remarkble records in the history of talent education in China.