Erich Fromm\'s View on Modes of Existence and Its Implications for Education

• Main Authors: Huang, Yu-Ting, 黃鈺婷
• Other Authors: Lin, Ferng-Chyi
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/zpztyc

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 教育學系 === 107 === E. Fromm (1900-1980) is a world-renowned humanistic philosopher and psychoanalytic psychologist. His work encourages people to pursue themselves, to find the art of loving, to believe in the independence of human and human self-worth. The purpose of this study is to analyze the ideology of Taiwan's education from the theory of E. Fromm, and find out a solution that can make Taiwan’s education return to its essence. This study explores the important work of E. Fromm, "To have or to be?", also analyzes the background of Fromm’s thought. The research methods of this study are conceptual analysis and educational hermeneutics. After analyzing the meaning and value of ‘the mode of having’ and ‘the mode of being’, this study uses Fromm’s view on modes of existence to clarify the problems of Taiwan’s education from three aspects： 1.Parents’ modes of existence. 2.Teachers’ modes of existence. 3.Modes of existence in education policies of Taiwan. From the analysis of those three aspects mentioned above, the tendency of leaning on “the mode of having” in Taiwan's education is exposed, and the need to correct this bias is discussed. Finally, this study gives Taiwan’s education some advices. A change of the thought of parents and teachers is needed, so that children can really explore and learn from the world independently. It is argued that adults have to uphold the spirit of ‘the mode of being’ to understand what children truly need and to trust that children will find themselves. Education upholding ‘the mode of being’ can play its essential role that can let children have the ability to think and to solve problems on their own. To summarize, this study asserts to broaden education in humanistic ways in order that every child can have their unique and proper modes of existence.