1. Create educational goals
The starting point and destination of innovative education is to cultivate innovative talents. Li Zhengdao said: "The most important thing in cultivating talents is creativity." Especially the all-round development of creative talents, different countries have different formulations, but the basic goal is the same. For example, the "harmonious development person" in the United States and the "coordinated development person" in Japan. Its core is to cultivate creativity.
2. Create the content of education
(1) Creative Philosophy Education
It is a general law of creative research on the whole world including nature, society and human thinking, and it is also a world outlook. It is the crystallization of natural science and social science, which embodies the creative understanding and problem solving in the relationship between man and nature, man and society, cognition and practice, and spirit and matter. It is directly related to the creator's character, spirit, thinking method and guidance to creative activities.
(2) innovative consciousness and thinking education
Consciousness is the intermediary of leading psychological function in the process of transforming external information into subject activities, and has a dynamic control effect on various psychological activities. In today's creative activities, creative consciousness is called creativity for short, such as "borrowing" consciousness, "bridge" consciousness and "flowing" consciousness, etc., and various manifestations and factors that stifle creativity are also studied from the opposite direction.
Thinking generally refers to the process of analysis, synthesis, judgment and reasoning on the basis of appearances and concepts. Creative thinking is a breakthrough in understanding old ideas and things. It is also the innovation of the way of thinking itself.
Creative thinking includes: theoretical thinking, intuitive thinking, inclined thinking, associative thinking, contact and anti-contact thinking, image thinking, diffusion thinking and concentrated thinking. The focus of creative thinking is imagination, and rich creative imagination is the guarantee of initiative.
(3) Education and training in technology discovery, invention and creation.
Discovery method refers to a general creative method to reveal previously unknown things, phenomena and laws in scientific research (suitable for senior high school). Inventive method refers to the creative method of obtaining unprecedented new things within the scope of natural science (suitable for junior high school); Creative techniques refer to changing old things, creating new things, new forms, new combinations, new changes and new works, which contain the meaning of innovation and are generally carried out in primary schools and junior high schools.
(4) subject education
Subject education is extremely extensive, including philosophy, psychology, logic, sociology, thinking science, behavioral science, future science and informatics. Combined with creative behavior, personality and morality. The reason why the education of these subjects should be integrated is to regard it as the basis of morality, intelligence, physique, ability and beauty necessary for creativity.
(5) Situational education
This is a broad and creative educational method. If a special event happens around us, how can we creatively recognize it, understand it and solve it? Based on creativity, Honda Primary School in Japan has social research room, science research room and family science research room. Before graduating from primary school, students should learn tea ceremony etiquette, receive guests alone, sew, make clothes and embroider. And cooking, cooking, washing clothes, taking care of your own life. It has its routine practice and creative exploration.
(6) the guidance and practice of creative activities
Such as organizing interesting invention and creation activities, Sunday clubs, creative rooms (including drawings, models, toys, teaching AIDS, art works, factory visits), participating in Olympic competitions (including brain Olympics), invention and creation experiments, etc., so as to cultivate initiative, enthusiasm and creativity in vocational training. Create a creative class, and set the content of the creative class in different grades, such as making common wooden parts, clay figurines or creative imitation with common tools. After graduating from primary school, I can generally master 20-25 kinds of skills and have certain original ability. Middle school is more demanding.