The Contemporary Transformation of Educational Mechanism for Knowledge Innovation-Dialogue on Finland's Education and China's General Education

Abstract

In Finland» the knowledge-in fusing education has been transforming toward the practical-contextual education. The practical-contextual education is the combination of knowledge innovation and education genesis» which motivates the education of specialized knowledge and endows it the energy of knowledge innovation and education genesis» cxpccially while it is facing the chanllcngcs from the electronic information age. The key conditions for the success of Finland system of education arc the two, the pedagogial ideas of holistic development of humanity» and the rcpcscts for teachers in the whole society. On the basis of this, the practical-contextual education with freedom is different from any other pragmatistic education which always view education as some sorts of tools. In comtcmporary China, the construction of innovation system is the crucial direction for modernization» however» it can not be confined in instrumental rationality and the research of specialized fields» it should be expanded as the refomation of social instution and the building of eluture on which the innovation system can rely. General education that provides the cultuaral cultivation and the cognitive structure of liberal creativity for the education of specialized areas» is the crucial considcrarion for the transformation from instrumental rationality to holistic development of people. At the same time»it contains the fundamental motivation for the innovation in the future China.