Definition of educational modernization

Because the research on educational modernization has only been 30 years, many problems are still under discussion, and there have been different opinions on the definition and main contents of educational modernization. Huang, a scholar in Taiwan Province Province, China, believes that the so-called modernization of education, literally, means that education should move from tradition to modernity and keep pace with modern society. The implicit assumption of educational modernization is: education is not modern enough, education is outdated and needs to be updated. Because modern society is characterized by liberalization, democratization, diversification, humanism, science and technology and localization. Internationalization and futurization, therefore, educational modernization should take these characteristics as the direction of efforts. Yang Guoci, another scholar in Taiwan Province Province, believes that the modernization of education is a lot of new measures to meet the needs of the country and society, which makes education play an active catalytic role in the process of national construction, thus accelerating the progress of the country and the development of society.

Feng Zengjun, a scholar in Chinese mainland, believes that there should be several definitions according to the different scope and modes of educational modernization: world education modernization, national education modernization, early endogenous education modernization and late exogenous education modernization. For example, the modernization of national education refers to how backward countries transform education, make it realize modernization, catch up with the progress of developed countries, and strive to solve the differences between different regions. Some scholars in our country believe that the modernization of education is the realization of the "modernity" of education, the reflection of the spirit of the times, and an educational sentiment, ideal and ultimate pursuit, such as "education should enable all people to get comprehensive and free development".

Another scholar believes that educational modernization not only refers to the realization of educational modernity, but also refers to the growth process of educational modernity with the constant changes of educational forms, such as secularization and nationalization of education. Some people think that educational modernization is a part of social modernization, and it is a process in which educational activities adapt to various objective needs in the period of social transformation (change) and constantly change, innovate and improve "hardware" and "software".