Current location - Education and Training Encyclopedia - Educational Knowledge - Is it necessary for universities to offer death education courses?
Is it necessary for universities to offer death education courses?
This is necessary. Nowadays, it is a good thing that more and more colleges and universities offer courses related to death education for students. By discussing death in class, simulating dying farewell and visiting the whole funeral process in the funeral home, it is of great significance to let college students get close contact with death and know it, and guide them to face death squarely and fear life, which is helpful to help students understand the value of life and guide them to take care of their bodies and lives. However, it is undeniable that the popularization rate of death education in China is still low, and it is still blank in many schools, and the curriculum and education model need to be further improved. Therefore, it is necessary to further popularize death education, further help students and the public to treat death rationally, and cultivate and enhance their ability to cope with and handle death events. Not only in colleges and universities, but also in primary and secondary schools should be carried out in a way suitable for the age and understanding level of primary and secondary school students.

To further popularize death education, it is necessary to desensitize to death in order to break the shackles of traditional ideas. Last year, a kindergarten in Jiangsu organized a special funeral for rubber coccidia, and gave life education to children, which was questioned by some parents. Although many parents spontaneously take photos in the circle of friends and feel that it is very important for kindergartens to carry out life education as early as possible, some parents feel unlucky. The attitude of the public, including parents, is also a problem that schools must consider and take into account when carrying out death education. Therefore, schools must win the recognition and support of parents and even cooperate with parents to carry out death education. Treating death correctly is not only a compulsory course for children, but also for many parents.

To further popularize death education, it is necessary to integrate the forces of the government, schools and society, build a death education system, strengthen the research on death education, strengthen the construction of courses and textbooks, and further improve the scientific nature of education content, teaching methods and models. We should make full use of social resources, use hospice wards and intensive care units, touch the dying scene, feel the universality and particularity of life and death, and enhance the practicality of death education by adopting various vivid forms of education.

Shi Tiesheng said: "Death is something that need not be realized in a hurry, and it is a festival that is bound to come." Death will come eventually, so it is the proper meaning in the title to carry out death education so that young people can know death earlier and know how to respect and fear life earlier.

Carrying out death education is not only to guide teenagers to know and understand death, but also to make them face life with a more positive and optimistic attitude. More importantly, guide young people to realize that life is precious and limited. At the most splendid time of life, we should love life, cherish our limited youth, plan our life better, explore and pursue our own values and meanings, and create a happier life.