Application of Confucious'Educational Thought in College English Teaching

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10.2991/icesem-17.2017.144How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Confucius; educational thought; enlightenment; learning and thinking; knowing and doing

Abstract

Confucius is a great thinker, politician, educator, and founder of Confucianism. His educational thought and educational practice have positive and far-reaching impact on the education of his time and later generations, which also provide a treasure house for English teaching and learning. This paper is dedicated to exploring the connotations of Confucius' educational thought and its implications for English teaching in order to better serve the teaching practice. We mainly discuss from the following four aspects: Reform of English teaching and change of teachers' role; combination of learning and thinking and unity of knowing and doing; always place moral education in a prominent place; pay attention to all-round development. After the analysis, we can safely draw the conclusion that many of Confucious' educational theories are applicable in English class and we should make good use of them to achieve better results in English teaching and learning.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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