五四时期,在致力于“儿童的发现”也即儿童个性解放和儿童文化重建的进程中,新文化倡导者将“儿童是人”、“儿童是儿童”的个性主义儿童观贯彻、运用于教育领域,推动了教育观念的更新和教育改革运动的发展,以及儿童教育学作为一门新兴学科在中国的正式确立,促进了儿童教育的个性化、实践化和科学化,有力地推进了中国教育的近代化。 During the May 4th Movement, new culture advocators applied the individualist concept of “children are human beings” and “children are children” to the “discovery of children”, that is, the liberation of children’s personality and the reconstruction of children’s culture. In the area of ​​education, the promotion of the educational concept and the development of the educational reform movement, as well as the formal establishment of pedagogy as a new discipline in China, promoted the individualization, practicalization and scientification of children’s education and effectively promoted the development of China Modernization of Education.