教育家陶行知受到“五族共和”论及民国时期边疆民族问题的影响,逐渐形成了主张维护国家统一、推进国内民族团结、尊重民族群众的民族地位及反对大民族主义的民族观。在此基础上,他提出了一系列民族教育思想。这些思想侧重在发展民族教育的作用、方针和教学语言等方面,其旨趣在提升各族民众的国家认同感、给予少数民族文化一定的发展空间。 Tao Xingzhi, an educator, was influenced by the ethnic issues on the frontier during the Republican Period and gradually formed a national outlook advocating the maintenance of national unification, promoting national unity among ethnic groups, respecting ethnic groups and opposing nationalism . On this basis, he proposed a series of thoughts on ethnic education. These thoughts focus on the development of the role of national education, guidelines and teaching language, its purpose is to enhance national identity of people of all nationalities, give the minority culture a certain development space.