Abstract: Being affected by phenomenology and educational phenomenology in the North America, phenomenological attitude and approach has become an important approach in China’s education research to understand the education life since 1990s. Phenomenology provides the resources and the way of thinking. In order to go further in the inquiry of educational phenomenology, firstly we need to trace the development of educational phenomenology in China, and then to return to the phenomenology thoughts, getting inspirations from the basic problems and methods of phenomenology, defining the basic issues of pedagogy, regulating the method of educational phenomenology, as well as promoting the theoretical reflection of the educational phenomenology .

Key words: educational phenomenology, nature attitude, phenomenological attitude, life consciousness, intentional construction, meaning