Abstract:
Teaching process is both a process of knowing and a process of doing. This process calls for mental abstraction, that is, objective abstraction and reflective abstraction in the course of thinking. Objective abstraction refers to an abstraction based on the fact or on sensitive experience. In other words, it generalizes the essential qualities, essential relations and law of motion of things from their multiple concrete features by mental activity. On the other hand, reflective abstraction means abstraction based on coordination between the subject’s actions. Specifically, this type of abstraction separates the order and relation from acts and the form from contents, which continues to develop into an abstraction of pure symbols or an abstraction of abstraction and turn into mathematic logic and formal logic. Therefore, teaching process should help to coordinate objective abstraction with reflective abstraction to integrate mental abstraction with actual facts.
