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The Harmony between Spiritual and Real World:Teachers′Professional State under the Vision of Process Philosophy

Lizhen Zhang

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Process philosophy,as the base of postmodern philosophy,believes that process is fundamental and realistic,and entity is a creative process.Teacher's professional development emphasizes that teacher's growth is a gradual and spiral upward growth pursuing the qualities of life.From the perspective of process philosophy,traditional epistemology highlights teaching profession's social value,while neglects the embodiment of teacher's personal value.The conflicts between personal and social values,spiritual and real world cause a gap between the ideal image and the real experience of teacher's job,as well as the dual characters of teacher's personalities.Re-examining teacher's job under the background of teacher's professionalization,it is obliged to restore teacher's nature of human being,and realize the Generativitt of teacher's professional development,for the purpose of realizing a harmonious relation between the real and spiritual world in the process of teacher's professional development through teacher's professional state.

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Process philosophy,as the base of postmodern philosophy,believes that process is fundamental and realistic,and entity is a creative process.Teacher's professional development emphasizes that teacher's growth is a gradual and spiral upward growth pursuing the qualities of life.From the perspective of process philosophy,traditional epistemology highlights teaching profession's social value,while neglects the embodiment of teacher's personal value.The conflicts between personal and social values,spiritual and real world cause a gap between the ideal image and the real experience of teacher's job,as well as the dual characters of teacher's personalities.Re-examining teacher's job under the background of teacher's professionalization,it is obliged to restore teacher's nature of human being,and realize the Generativitt of teacher's professional development,for the purpose of realizing a harmonious relation between the real and spiritual world in the process of teacher's professional development through teacher's professional state.

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Process philosophy,as the base of postmodern philosophy,believes that process is fundamental and realistic,and entity is a creative process.Teacher's professional development emphasizes that teacher's growth is a gradual and spiral upward growth pursuing the qualities of life.From the perspective of process philosophy,traditional epistemology highlights teaching profession's social value,while neglects the embodiment of teacher's personal value.The conflicts between personal and social values,spiritual and real world cause a gap between the ideal image and the real experience of teacher's job,as well as the dual characters of teacher's personalities.Re-examining teacher's job under the background of teacher's professionalization,it is obliged to restore teacher's nature of human being,and realize the Generativitt of teacher's professional development,for the purpose of realizing a harmonious relation between the real and spiritual world in the process of teacher's professional development through teacher's professional state.

Key concepts: Professionalization, Harmony (color), Sociology, Postmodernism, Pedagogy, Professional development, Value (mathematics), Teacher education

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