■ Free and independent development of personality is the prerequisite for the growth and development of innovative talents. People who are tools, models and bound by various rules and regulations cannot become innovative talents;
■ Innovative talents in contemporary society are innovative talents based on reality and facing the future.
What is an innovative talent? How do countries around the world understand innovative talents? This paper intends to compare the concept of innovative talents internationally to clarify the connotation of innovative talents.
Understanding of the connotation of innovative talents in domestic education circles
Although all countries attach great importance to the cultivation of innovative talents in higher education reform, their understanding of innovative talents is not consistent.
Since China began to advocate the cultivation of innovative talents or creative talents in the mid-1980s, there have been numerous academic papers on the cultivation of innovative talents. However, people have different views on what innovative (creative) talents are. The representative view is:
-The so-called creative talents refer to those who are original and creative, can put forward and solve problems, create a new career situation and make creative contributions to the construction of social material civilization and spiritual civilization. Such talents are generally solid in basic theory, rich in scientific knowledge, rigorous in research methods and brave in exploring unknown fields; At the same time, he has the spirit of dedication to truth and good scientific ethics. They are the inheritors of outstanding human cultural heritage, the creators and disseminators of the latest scientific achievements, and the cultivators of future scientists.
The main qualities of creative talents are: fearless enterprising spirit and pioneering spirit; Have a strong insatiable thirst for knowledge and endless desire for creation; Have a strong sense of competition and strong creative ability; At the same time, it should also have an independent and complete personality and noble feelings.
Innovative talents refer to people with creative spirit and ability, which is relative to conservative talents who don't think about creation and lack creative ability. This concept is not juxtaposed with the division of talent types such as theoretical, applied and technical. In fact, no matter what kind of talents, they must be creative.
It can be seen that the educational circles in China mainly explain innovative talents or creative talents from the perspectives of creativity, innovative consciousness, innovative spirit and innovative ability. This seems to give people an illusion that as long as people's creativity, innovative consciousness, innovative spirit and innovative ability are specially cultivated, the cultivation of innovative talents can be completed. Although some experts' definitions and explanations involve basic theoretical knowledge, personality quality and emotions, they have not become the mainstream.
International Definition of Innovative Talents' Connotation
In the relevant foreign literature, we have not found the concept equivalent to "creative talents" or "innovative talents". Some related concepts, such as "creative thinking", "creative person" and "critical thinking", mostly study the characteristics of creative thinking and creative personality from the perspective of psychology.
Foreign countries have a broader understanding of innovative talents than domestic ones. Most of them emphasize the all-round development of human personality and highlight the cultivation of innovative consciousness and ability. This can be clearly seen from the interpretation of the training objectives of university education abroad. It should be noted that the major developed countries in the world have paid attention to talents' innovative consciousness, innovative spirit, innovative thinking and innovative ability for a long time, but it has become more prominent in recent years.
In Britain, training gentlemanly leaders and scholars is the training goal of university education. What are gentleman leaders and scholars? According to Newman, a British19th century educator, he is "a person who learns to think, reason, compare, distinguish and analyze, with elegant taste, strong judgment and broad vision". Oxford university president c? Lucas demanded that the talents trained by universities "should have high technology, wide knowledge, strong sense of personal responsibility, innovative ability and flexibility." Individuals can constantly acquire new technologies to meet their own needs. "By 200 1, Oxford University has trained 40 Nobel Prize winners and 25 prime ministers for Britain.
The talent training in German universities is deeply influenced by Humboldt's idea of university. In the 20th century, German educator Jaspers proposed that universities should cultivate the concept of "whole person" and pursue innovation on the premise of "whole person".
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Question 2: What are scientific and technological innovation talents? The so-called scientific and technological innovation talents must first have profound and solid basic knowledge, be proficient in the latest scientific achievements and development trends of their major, and also understand the knowledge of adjacent disciplines and necessary horizontal disciplines. This is the basic condition for making innovative contributions in the increasingly fierce scientific and technological competition. Second, innovative scientific and technological talents should have extremely keen observation, be able to find major problems from the source, accurately grasp the development trend of science and technology, and find things that others have not found in time. Third, innovative scientific and technological talents should have rigorous scientific thinking ability and the ability to systematically and comprehensively analyze and accurately judge things. Fourth, innovative scientific and technological talents should have the courage and ability to innovate, dare to face difficulties, take a path that others have not taken, and at the same time conform to the laws of scientific thinking.
Question 3: What abilities should innovative talents have? As long as they are innovative talents, they all refer to those who are pioneering and creative, can innovate and make creative contributions to social development. Usually shows flexible, open and curious personality, characterized by energy, perseverance, concentration, rich imagination and adventurous spirit. Specifically, it has the following characteristics: (1) strong curiosity and thirst for knowledge; (2) Strong ability of self-study and exploration; (3) have extensive and solid knowledge in a certain field or aspect, and have a high professional level; (4) Have good moral cultivation and be able to cooperate or coexist with others; (5) Have a healthy body and good psychological quality, and be able to undertake hard work. You need to have three basic elements: personality, intelligence and body and mind. Such as: solid basic theory, rich scientific knowledge, rigorous research methods, courage to explore unknown areas, at the same time, with the spirit of dedication to truth and good scientific ethics. It is the inheritor of outstanding human cultural heritage, the creator and disseminator of the latest scientific achievements, and the cultivator of future scientists. To build an innovative country, science and technology are the key, talents are the core and education is the foundation. It is necessary to establish the concept that human resources are the first resource; It is necessary to improve the training system, select talents in an eclectic way and build a grand team of innovative scientific and technological talents; It is necessary to promote the market-oriented allocation of human resources, effectively improve the comprehensive development level of talents and human resources in China, and strive to form a new situation in which talents come forth in large numbers and make the best use of their talents.
Question 4: What qualities should innovative talents possess? What qualities should innovative talents with all-round development possess? First, we should always be eager for new knowledge, be good at acquiring knowledge and have a wide range of knowledge. The second is to have the ability to ask questions and find problems. Third, a strong sense of innovation. The fourth is to have creative thinking ability. Fifth, we should have a down-to-earth, fearless, climbing spirit and a rigorous style of study.
Question 5: What qualities do innovative talents need? Have basic achievements or accumulated experience in technology, management and teamwork, constantly create new ideas and learn to invest in reading.
Question 6: The first source of innovative talents is active introduction. Talents are different from ordinary people, so are innovative talents. There are always a few innovative talents standing on the wave of various industries and fields, so they have become the targets of various units. Some successful entrepreneurs always aim at innovative talents and actively introduce them. The second is enterprise training. The introduction of talents is not only costly, but also relatively limited. In order to have a large number of innovative talents, enterprises should also cultivate their own talents while introducing innovative talents. This requires the leaders of enterprises to have an eye for knowledge, be good at finding talents with innovative thinking and great innovation potential, and then make training plans and train them step by step and with goals. They can be sent to universities at home or abroad for further study, and they can be arranged to exercise in key positions. What is more important is to cultivate their innovative consciousness, stimulate their innovative potential, provide them with a stage to show their innovative talents and create the necessary conditions for realizing innovative value.
Question 7: How to make yourself an innovative talent is simply four words: learning+practice. Innovation is a process of self-improvement, and it is a process of developing and updating products or knowledge through learning and applying what they have learned.
1. Learn. To be sure, innovative talents are people with rich knowledge and excellent knowledge management. The knowledge here includes theoretical basis and practical experience. Including general book knowledge but not just book knowledge in a narrow sense. Moreover, to become an innovative talent, you need to know a variety of knowledge. One or a few things are not enough. The reason is simple: things are interrelated, and a variety of knowledge can be used for innovation! As for the way of learning, it doesn't mean just reading books. Of course, books are also necessary to read. Learning and accumulating in practice is often more effective.
2. practice. Think more and apply what you have learned, which is also the purpose of learning.
In addition, innovation requires interest and diligence, that is, fascination. A disinterested or indifferent attitude will not push people to innovate. Therefore, innovation often happens when people are engaged in the work they are interested in, love and work hard.
Let's talk about a case at last. A woman works as a cost engineer in a construction unit of a state-owned enterprise. Because of her interest in cost work, she keeps learning professional knowledge such as bidding, contract management, cost management, and even knowledge of law and international project management, so she can always improve and innovate in her work and her position is constantly improving. However, due to the drawbacks of state-owned enterprises, her development has been limited. Later, she decided to start her own business-a bold innovation. The competition in the industry is very severe, but this lady has strengthened her study of enterprise management and project management, so that she innovatively and took the lead in implementing the enterprise-based project management model in the industry. At the same time, with this model, she successfully entered the field that other peers thought was unprofitable or unable to master, and became a leader in the industry.
My friend, the success of the lady in the above case once again shows the decisive role of continuous learning and diligent practice in becoming an innovative talent.
Finally, I wish you become an excellent innovative talent!
Question 8: How to cultivate innovative talents? Innovation is a sign of the progress of human society. There can be no progress without innovation. Innovation is the soul of national progress and an inexhaustible motive force for national prosperity. It is because of innovation that society has made progress today. Innovation should be the new representative of productive forces, so how can we cultivate innovative talents? First of all, we should strengthen moral education and strengthen the characteristics of international talent training. The talents we cultivate should not only understand the business, but also have good ethics. Without a good moral concept, there can be no innovation. Today's innovation requires us to combine personality development with team spirit. Therefore, to do a good job of innovation, we must cultivate students' unity, mutual assistance, coordinated development and team spirit. With team spirit, individual development will be integrated into the collective, and there will be individual all-round development. At present, colleges and universities at home and abroad are strengthening the team spirit education for college students, which is not only a requirement of moral education, but also an academic requirement. Unity and mutual assistance, mutual help and cooperation are the lifestyle, moral norms and character cultivation of human society. Secondly, we should educate students to learn to be human before doing anything. If you want to do a good job, you must first have the spirit of independence and self-improvement, be brave in struggle and innovation, and have firm beliefs. On the road to success, there is no forbidden zone for success. On the road to success, it is impossible to be smooth sailing, but there will be failures, and failure should be regarded as the mother of success. We should clearly know that success is not a simple accumulation of failure, but a profound understanding and continuous transcendence of failure, which is the sublimation of wisdom and rationality. At the same time, success should be regarded as a process. Today's success is due to the accumulation of yesterday, and tomorrow's success depends on today's efforts. Today, to cultivate innovative talents, we must first educate them to have good moral quality, and establish a style of self-improvement, unity and cooperation that stresses honesty, emphasizes credibility, and does things first. Only in this way can we meet the requirements of innovative talents. Second, to cultivate innovative talents, we must change the old educational concept. Traditional education only emphasizes theory, not practice. In today's society, we should emphasize the close combination of theory and practice. Traditional teaching does not attach importance to students' personality development, but today's education should advocate personality development. Everyone has his own characteristics. If their personality is brought into play, it is innovation. Without the development of personality, there will be no creativity and no talent. Personality, in short, is a person's talent, which is generally manifested as interest, hobby and specialty. Talent is not possessed by a few people, but the potential hidden in everyone. As long as we give full play to this potential, people can become extraordinary people. However, due to educational problems, people's potential has not been fully exerted. Therefore, we should always mobilize every student's initiative in class and after class, give full play to their potential and personality, so that they will have a lot of inventions. Now, we should educate students to give full play to their talents and personalities in practice. Some students have exercised their operation ability and strengthened their practical ability through production practice. At the same time, it also strengthened interpersonal communication, enhanced team awareness, and learned how to cooperate with others and how to deal with interpersonal relationships. Third, accelerate the reform of curriculum teaching. In order to cultivate innovative talents, we must reform the existing curriculum. Curriculum construction and reform is the core of improving teaching quality, and it is also the focus and difficulty of teaching reform. I think colleges and universities can cooperate with the industry to jointly develop courses, and reform the curriculum system and teaching content according to the requirements of technical fields and professional posts and with reference to professional qualification standards. I think that both undergraduates and vocational college students should highlight the curriculum standards of vocational ability training, standardize the basic requirements of curriculum teaching and improve the teaching quality. It is necessary to strengthen the planning and research of curriculum construction, reform teaching methods and means, integrate "teaching, learning and doing" and strengthen the cultivation of students' ability. Schools and industrial enterprises should be encouraged to jointly develop teaching materials that are closely integrated with the actual production, so as to ensure that high-quality teaching materials enter the classroom. We should attach importance to the utilization of high-quality teaching resources and network information resources, and take modern information technology as an important means to improve teaching quality, which is also an important measure to cultivate innovative talents. In short, the cultivation of innovative talents must have the cultivation of basic qualities, that is, the cultivation of morality, knowledge, practical innovation and other qualities. The students trained by the school should be measured by social practice, practical work ability and creative contribution to science and society. Therefore, it is of great significance for the development of the country to cultivate innovative talents to meet the needs of society, which also tells us that cultivating innovative talents is the fundamental task of colleges and universities.
Question 9: What are the characteristics of outstanding innovative talents? The difficult thing is what we should do and whether we can do it. Nobel Prize winners are reported by the media every year. We have analyzed that winners usually have several things in common: they are all interested in their own research, they are all stuck in this field, and there are not many job-hopping; Everyone has a good scientific literacy, the university structure of education and work, and the teachers and colleagues around him are first-class; Have the spirit of dedication to science; They all have innovative thinking, rich imagination and scientific and advanced research methods; Everyone has a quiet life, a relaxed environment and a leisurely attitude; They are full of love and responsibility for others, society and nature. How far is China from the Nobel Prize and when can it be won? Analysis of our social environment and living conditions, analysis of our current talent situation, everyone will draw their own conclusions, for example, is our society too impetuous, are we too eager for quick success, and so on. The innovation ability and level of a society and a nation are related to its scientific literacy, value orientation, social conditions and relaxed environment. In addition, be caring and responsible. Love is the only way to love, to create life, and to benefit mankind with responsibility. This summer, I read a book called "More Glory than Harvard", which included some winners who won the American Presidential Award among American high school graduates in 2006. From the testimonials of the winners, I can sum up several points: First, they all received a good family education since childhood, and their family conditions were not very superior, but they all grew up with happiness and encouragement. Secondly, they actively participate in social activities and social services in middle schools, and get fun and social knowledge from them. As soon as they entered middle school, they knew that universities like students who actively participate in social activities, care about others, care about society and develop in an all-round way, so they worked hard in middle school. Finally, only half a year after they entered the university, they were able to think independently and assume social responsibilities. So in my opinion, primary school students mainly grow up happily, and middle schools should strengthen social activities. The most important thing for a university is to study hard and take social responsibility. Zhai, executive vice president of high school affiliated to renmin university of china, who has formed a "one-stop" training mechanism, generally believes that primary and secondary education is a basic education and seems to have nothing to do with cultivating innovative talents, while universities are the birthplace of talents. However, we believe that if the process of talent growth is compared to a person's body, then the middle school stage is the waist of this person, and people with weak waist can't stand up. To cultivate a generation of outstanding scientific talents, we must put the task of discovering and cultivating such talents into basic education. Basic education should lay a generous and solid foundation for outstanding students with development potential. Only in this way can they truly become innovative talents in the university stage and future development. There are three main aspects in the exploration and practice of cultivating innovative talents in the middle school attached to the National People's Congress. First of all, curriculum reform is the basis of cultivating innovative talents in middle schools. Traditional curriculum takes textbook classroom as the center, teachers as the carrier and knowledge as the driving force. This kind of education is not conducive to cultivating students' ability of independent thinking and independent learning. And this ability of independent thinking and independent learning is precisely the most basic quality of innovative talents. The curriculum reform of the middle school attached to the National People's Congress is based on students' development, establishing a diversified and open curriculum system, giving students the right to choose independently, cultivating students' ability to know and design themselves, and laying the foundation for students' lifelong development. Secondly, innovative education is the main way to cultivate students' innovative spirit and practical ability. In the early 1990s, the middle school attached to the National People's Congress introduced innovative education into compulsory courses for students. After more than ten years of reform and innovation, the curriculum has gradually improved and formed a system, forming a multi-level scientific and technological innovation ability training system with innovative courses, youth science and technology clubs and youth academy of sciences as carriers. Thousands of students from the middle school attached to the National People's Congress won prizes in various international and domestic youth invention science and technology competitions. Finally, expanding the curriculum has opened up a new way to cultivate innovative talents. For the cultivation of innovative talents, it is necessary to extend the classroom outward, to universities, to state key laboratories, and to the forefront of scientific research, so that students can get close to scientists, understand what scientific research is, understand the latest trends of scientific research, and cultivate students' scientific literacy and spirit. I think it is necessary to form a "one-way" mode on how to link up the cultivation of innovative talents between middle schools and universities. & gt