Western Learning and New Education:The Educational Contributions of Late Qing Dynasty Overseas Students——With a Focus on Yang Yueru and Others
During the late Qing Dynasty,China faced internal and external challenges,prompting intellectuals to seek strate-gies to uplift the nation from its crisis.The discourse on"education to save the country"intensified,highlighting the growing con-tradictions between traditional and modern education.To foster the development and innovation of modern Chinese education,a group of overseas students played a crucial role in integrating Western and Chinese educational approaches.Particularly,figures like Yang Yueru,among other late Qing Dynasty overseas students,significantly contributed to the advancement of modern Chi-nese education.Their initiatives included establishing modern schools,organizing rapid teacher training workshops,renovating ele-mentary schools,founding single-grade instructional institutes,propagating combined instruction,restructuring old schools,and publishing educational materials.These efforts diversified educational forms,improved the learning environment,and introduced innovative teaching methods to educators across various regions.They facilitated the popularization and development of the sin-gle-grade teaching method.The educational practices of Yang Yueru and other late Qing Dynasty overseas students yielded evi-dent results,providing a practical template for modern education,which were experimented,promoted,and applied by their peers.Yang Yueru and other overseas students in the late Qing Dynasty devoted themselves to the reform and development of modern ed-ucation in China,acelerating the integration and mutual promotion of Westem and Chinese learning.
Yang Yueruoverseas students in Late Qing DynastyNie'erpu Elementary SchoolSingle-grade instructional in-stitutesCombined instruction
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