Constructing School Educational Space for Children's Subjective Liberation:A Contemporary Interpretation of Tao Xingzhi's Life Education Philosophy
HUANG Xiaobin¹, ZHOU Xianfeng²
(1. School of Education, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan 411201, China;
2. School of Education Science, Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang 464000, China)
Abstract: In the era of digital-technological rationality,education faces a crisis of children's subjectivity. Tao Xingzhi's life education philosophy, centered on“subjective liberation", serves as a criticalresponse to the modem educational system dominated by instrumental rationality.Through an ontological reconstruction of Tao's life education theory,this study reveals the dialectical logic of his ideas on subjective liberation, emphasizing their significance in addressing subjective alienation during moderization. Focusing on the liberation of children's subjectivity, this paper critically analyzes the structural contradictions between the conccalment of life-world attributes in educational spaces and the lack of children's agency. It clarifies how children, as generative subjects, construct mcaning and realize value within educational spaces, while proposing generative pathways for cultivating their subjectivity. Following this framework, threefold approaches are suggested to construct educational spaces for children's subjective liberation: centering on children's lived experiences to deeply understand their life-world; respecting their cultural positioning and enhancing their spatial perceptions; and fostering the emergence and development of children's subjectivity through democratic participatory practices.
Keywords: life education; subjectivity; practice; space production; individual liberation
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