Developmental Psychology Research Based on Educational Practice in China

Abstract

As a developmental psychologist who has conducted studies in educational practice for about thirty years. A series of developmental psychology studies rooted in Chinese culture were performed, and the findings led us to focus on students' potential in growth, developmental fullness and educational ecosystem. This article mainly talked about three aspects: the viewpoints about the nature of psychological development formed in the context of school; promoting students' development by continually constructing cultural ecosystem; the characteristics of researches by taking the perspective of cultural ecology and discoveries about deficiency in basic abilities. All of these were based on educational objectives and conducted in educational practice, so they were integrative and dynamic transformation. In educational intervention, aesthetic potential was also found. The relation between aesthetic potential and full development was put forward.

Education as “Dilemmatic Field”

“…Dolci, who called himself an educator poet, had a vision of school Bthat will educate the young to know and respect their cultural and natural origins and become less competitive, more responsible, productive and creative citizens in and of the earth^ (Vitiello and Polidoro 1980, p. 201). I think that he addressed exactly the kind of issues raised for instance by He (2018) and Li (2018): how the work of schooling can deal with the dilemmatic field of fostering young creativity, imagination, responsibility and rules of citizenship, how it can overcome the dualism between study and play, between schooling and real life? Can education actually support the full development of the person's potential, including her role as active democratic citizen, starting from the ethical and aesthetical nature of experience?…”

“…The first point of contact between cultural psychology and the lessons of Covello, Dolci and Freire, is that that the person is responsible and active agent of knowing, but it is also true that this process never happens in a solipsistic way, and, above all, it does not happens only for egoistic purposes. As Li (2018) argues, there is a constant dialectic between individual and collective in the work of schooling. According to the different systems of values in the society, the work of schooling will find different workable compromises that meet one of the preferred horns of the dilemma.…”

“…The work of schooling sets the range of acceptable forms of personal development, including a certain degree of variability. For instance, the different educational practices discussed by Li (2018) and Birkeland and Ødemotland (2018) are promoting or inhibiting specific forms of learning, according to different systems of values with respect to the dilemmatic field individual/collective. Yet in both cases, individual AND collective are both present as elements of a dilemmatic field rather than clear-cut alternatives.…”

“…Such a complex topic necessarily leads to a number of questions. There is the opposition between the individual and the collective (Birkeland and Ødemotland 2018;Li 2018), the dialectics between continuity and discontinuity in education (Birkeland and Ødemotland 2018;He 2018), the political and ethic implications of every educational policies (Li 2018;Szulevicz 2018). There is also the apparent opposition between education as the formation of an independent individual and the formation of a member of a society, that Simmel very nicely summarized in this metaphor: BChildrearing tends to be imperfect because with each of its particular acts it must serve two opposed tendencies: freeing and binding ( Simmel 1918( Simmel /2010.…”

The Application of Human–Computer Interaction Technology Fused With Artificial Intelligence in Sports Moving Target Detection Education for College Athlete

“…Educational psychology is a branch of psychology based on materialist dialectics and diverse research methods, which extracts the essence of different theoretical schools to systematically explore the psychological state of people in sports from different angles and levels (Li and Xu, 2018). Educational psychology plays an important role in PE teaching.…”