Abstract:

The formation of independent knowledge system marks mature discipline, prosperous scholarship and self-conscious discourse of Chinese pedagogy. Originated from “Western Learning Spreading to the East”, Chinese pedagogy repeatedly suffered from overwhelming destructions for more than 120 years. Whereas, Chinese pedagogy all along pursues nationality and succession as main line of independent knowledge construction, takes timeliness and originality as powerful drive for knowledge development, and persists in systematisms and professionality as basis of social identity. Chinese education has increasingly highlighted its properties as people’s wellbeing, national strategy and political arena with changing times for more than 70 years since the founding of PRC. The independent knowledge system of Chinese pedagogy consists of discipline system, academic system, discourse system, textbook system and governance system. Specifically, it is composed of iconic concepts and terminology, core knowledge and cutting-edge knowledge in terms of content formation. The knowledge production of Chinese pedagogy is achieved by academic discipline, school, association and publication. The knowledge development is propelled by mutual transformation of practice knowledge, policy knowledge and education thoughts. The characteristics of Chinese pedagogy stems from valuable tradition, vivid practice and idiographic issues of China’ education, and is based on disciplinary consciousness, academic autonomy and cultural confidence. It is imperative to properly cope with dialectics of Chinese characteristics and general knowledge, lay a solid foundation of education discipline and ignite originality of academic system, enhance coherence of textbook system, take leading role of governance system with all efforts to promote clear articulation, regular adoption, worldwide spreading and powerful impact of Chinese pedagogy.The end is to provide guidance of thoughts and foundation of theories for building education power.

Key words: Chinese pedagogy, independent knowledge system, discipline system, academic system, discourse system