What School-life matters for children in the Perspective of Enjoyment？

 ——A phenomenological Interpretation on Children’s Enjoyment of the Educative Life in Schools

Prof. Shenghong Jin

( Suzhou University of Science and Technology, China)

Abstract

Children are newcomers arriving in the world. Their growth is constituted by their enjoyment of the life in the meaningful world. Children learn to be creators of the good life by enjoying school education. Their learning ought to be enjoyment through which they enter into the world and life by subjective participation and achieve the spiritual transformation. Their enjoyment of education is the autonomous action and also the spiritual experiences of being educated and cultivated. Enjoyment is constitutive in the relationship between children and education as it is the fundamental and essential way through which children experience the world and life, transform their spirituality, build their subjectivity. A school should be a home full of enjoyment. The experiences of being at school home bring the integration of being and becoming for children. By living through school，enjoying the relationships with the great and the beautiful，experiencing the joy of flying their dreams and thinking in the essential activities of school leisure life, children gain their spiritual cultivation and transformation. The enjoyment of children is one of the criteria to judge their school life good and beautiful or not.