New Explorations on the Implementation of Collaborative Education among Home, School and Community—Based on the Educational Implication of Spatial Perspective of “Educational Anthropology”

Abstract

Otto Friedrich Bollnow elaborates on the spatial concept of educational anthropology in his book “Anthropology of Education”. This spatial concept mainly includes: internal, external, and free space. The internal space is a safe and comfortable private area, the external space is a public space for collective action, and the free space refers to a vast world that inspires the human mind. These three types of spaces can correspond to three different forms of educational spaces, where the in-ternal space can be metaphorically represented as the home space, the external space can be met-aphorically represented as the school space, and the free space can be metaphorically represented as the social space. This spatial concept provides at least the following insights for exploring the collaborative education among families, schools, and society: First, for family education, it is necessary to protect the atmosphere and maintain the stability of education. Second, school education needs to respond to risks and grasp the non-continuity of education. Third, social education needs to provide motivation and focus on the future of education. Fourth, in terms of the tripartite relationship, it is necessary to connect different spaces and maintain the balance of education.