Abstract
J. H. Pestalozzi is a“ Klassiker” who saw what kind of curriculum can foster humanity, while he thought about children’s overall developmental stages. His view of curriculum contributes to modern education seeking humanity. The purpose of this paper, about the life education theory of Pestalozzi, is to examine what kind of curriculum nurtures the humanity of children. Pestalozzi hoped to raise humanity by incorporating elements of life and difficulties in each subject. Thus, each subject aims to foster each individual human force. However, it may by called into question whether we can foster humanity in children by gathering each element of humanity without attention to relations between subjects. Therefore, Pestalozzi focused on mutual relations between subjects and uniqueness and commonalities between them. Additionally, he practiced and tried to foster humanity while he helped children become aware of it as“ a theme in our life”. This study concludes that Pestalozzi’s view and theory on curriculum for the education of humanity provides important suggestions to us today.
