JOURNAL OF QUJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY ›› 2019, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (6): 101-105.

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Arendt's Conservative View on Children and Its Practical Significance

Li Zhongyu1,2   

  1. 1.Department of Education, Southwest University,Beibei Chongqing 400715,China;
    2.College of teacher education,Qujing Normal University,Qujing Yunnan 655011,China
  • Received:2019-08-30 Online:2019-11-26

Abstract: In the 1950s, Arendt put forward the conservative view of children that education should protect children as well as the world, based on the reality of children. In Arendt's view, the full development of children's personality is the prerequisite for the survival of the world, and the world as the public field and the bearing space of creation, is the prerequisite for people to acquire a sense of reality and immortality. Therefore, Arendt opposed the extreme child-center theory, believing that it overemphasized children's autonomy and uniqueness, severed the connection between children's world and adult world, neglected the the possibility that children may violate the world and that education has a duty to protect the world.

Key words: Arendt, Conservatism, Children's View, Child-center Theory

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