The Phenomenon of"Anti-romanticization"in Education and the Reconstruction of Romantic Traditions
As a romantic activity composed of life,nature,personality,and creation,education is colorful because of romance,and romance is profound because of education.Romance helps to reduce the complexity of the educational environment and promote the holistic growth of the person.Romance and anti-romanticization emerge hand in hand,but under the influence of neoliberalism,meritocracy,positivism and other thoughts,education shows a trend of"anti-romanticization,"and features"life romance"based on the logic of certainty,"natural romance"based on a high-efficiency standard,"personality-based romance"based on a certain model,and the"creation of romance"based on a tool orientation.When society pursues the trend of"anti-romanticization,"education will lose the romantic background of life,nature,personality and creation,resulting in educational risks,such as the weakened generation of life,the negligence of the law of nature,the strengthened similar personality,and secularized creation.The key to reshaping educational romance is to face up to the romantic nature of education,return to the romantic traditions of life,nature,personality and creation,and endow them with the connotations of the times.Therefore,we need to reshape"life romance"by means of"proper control,"the"natural romance"by means of"slow education,"the"personality-based romance"by means of"customization,"and the"creation of romance"by means of"beauty and art."However,reshaping the romantic traditions of education does not mean abandoning rationality.Instead,it constructs the dialectical unity of romance with rationality,guides actions through"life romance"and professional rationality,constructs theories through poetic romance and scientific rationality,and improves the mechanisms through planned romance and governance-based rationality.