<?xml version="1.1" encoding="utf-8"?>
<article xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/1.1/xsd/JATS-journalpublishing1-mathml3.xsd" dtd-version="1.1" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">JCER</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Journal of Contemporary Educational Research</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn>2208-8466</issn><eissn>2208-8474</eissn><publisher><publisher-name>Bio-Byword Scientific Publishing Pty. Ltd.</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.26689/jcer.v6i2.3581</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title>Pedagogy of “Life and Practice” and a Reflection on Contemporary Education</title><url>https://artdesignp.com/journal/JCER/6/2/10.26689/jcer.v6i2.3581</url><author>YangChunjing</author><pub-date pub-type="publication-year"><year>2022</year></pub-date><volume>6</volume><issue>2</issue><history><date date-type="pub"><published-time>2022-01-24</published-time></date></history><abstract>Professor Lan Ye’s meta-research on pedagogy and education in Return to Breakthrough – An Outline of Life and Practice Pedagogy puts forward the problems of what pedagogy is and what education is, reflects on the problems of contemporary education, and proposes that education should return to its root, which lies in the traditional Chinese problems of education and adults as well as education and life. This paper attempts to clarify the problems raised by Professor Lan Ye and reflect about the problems of contemporary education under meta-education as well as the role and significance of the traditional Chinese educational spirit for contemporary education.</abstract><keywords/></article-meta></front><body/><back><ref-list><ref id="B1" content-type="article"><label>1</label><element-citation publication-type="journal"><p>Ye L, 2018, Tracing Back to the Source: Retrieving the Lost Dimension of Nature in Modern Education – Return to Breakthrough: An Outline of “Life and Practice” Pedagogy, Part 2 (Part 1). Education Development Research, 38(02): 1-13.</p><pub-id pub-id-type="doi"/></element-citation></ref><ref id="B2" content-type="article"><label>2</label><element-citation publication-type="journal"><p>Ye L, 2020, Tracing Back to the Source: Retrieving the Lost Dimension of Nature in Modern Education – Return to Breakthrough: An Outline of “Life and Practice” Pedagogy, Part 2 of the Continued Study (Part II). China Education Science (Chinese and English), 3(01): 3-17.</p><pub-id pub-id-type="doi"/></element-citation></ref><ref id="B3" content-type="article"><label>3</label><element-citation publication-type="journal"><p>Wu H, 2020, The Concept, Operation and Governance of School Symbiotic Groups: Based on the Exploration of “New Basic Education” Ecological Zone Construction. Education Development Research, 40(20): 39-45.</p><pub-id pub-id-type="doi"/></element-citation></ref><ref id="B4" content-type="article"><label>4</label><element-citation publication-type="journal"><p>Ye L, 2018, Tracing Back to the Source: Retrieving the Lost Dimension of Nature in Modern Education – Return to Breakthrough: An Outline of “Life and Practice” Pedagogy, Part 2 (Part 2). Education Development Research, 38(03): 26-37.</p><pub-id pub-id-type="doi"/></element-citation></ref><ref id="B5" content-type="article"><label>5</label><element-citation publication-type="journal"><p>Ye L, 2018, Educational Spirit and Wisdom in Chinese Philosophical Tradition. Educational Research, 39(06): 4-7, 23.</p><pub-id pub-id-type="doi"/></element-citation></ref><ref id="B6" content-type="article"><label>6</label><element-citation publication-type="journal"><p>Ye L, 2018, Research on the Relationship Between Deepening Child Development and School Reform. Chinese Journal of Education, 2018(05): 3.</p><pub-id pub-id-type="doi"/></element-citation></ref><ref id="B7" content-type="article"><label>7</label><element-citation publication-type="journal"><p>Ye L, 2015, Return to Breakthrough: The Outline of “Life and Practice” Pedagogy, East China Normal University Press, Shanghai, 323-324.</p><pub-id pub-id-type="doi"/></element-citation></ref><ref id="B8" content-type="article"><label>8</label><element-citation publication-type="journal"><p>Pang H, Yang L, 2020, Problems and Strategies of Implementing the Educational Value of Primary School Classroom Teaching under the Concept of “New Basic Education”. Journal of Hezhou University, 36(03): 150-154.</p><pub-id pub-id-type="doi"/></element-citation></ref></ref-list></back></article>
