(1) Connotation of educational purpose: Educational purpose refers to the expected result of education, which reflects the requirements for education in terms of people's training standards, efforts and social orientation. The narrow sense of educational purpose refers to the general requirements established by a certain society (country or region) for cultivating all kinds of educational talents at all levels. In a broad sense, educational purpose refers to the target field (also called target field) that has a directional effect on educational activities, including a series of goals that are expected to be achieved at different levels. Its structure is divided into two levels: educational goal, training goal, curriculum goal and teaching goal. The meaning of each name and its functional characteristics are the same and unique. It not only shows the requirements of a certain society (country or region) for education and training people, but also shows the direction and goal of educational activities, which is the starting point and destination of educational activities.

The purpose and policy of education

1. education policy: the general direction of education stipulated by the state to achieve educational goals according to political and economic requirements. It is the general summary of education policy. [Contrast: education policy-direction; Educational Purpose-Quality Requirements]

2. Training objectives (educational purposes): the specific requirements of schools and majors at all levels to train talents according to educational purposes.

3. Course objectives: refers to the objectives to be achieved by a course.

4. Unit goal: refers to the goal to be achieved by the unit.

5. Class goal: refers to the goal to be achieved by a class.

[Comparison: educational goal → educational policy → training goal → curriculum goal → unit goal → class goal, the higher the abstraction, the more universal it is; The lower the degree of abstraction, the stronger the operability. The former level is the foundation of the latter level, and the latter level is the concretization of the former level. Put forward at different levels, educational purpose → country; Training goal → school; Curriculum objectives → teachers; Unit, class goal → teachers and students. ]

(3) the provisions of educational purpose on the quality of educational activities

The purpose of education has a qualitative regulation on the social tendency of educational activities and the cultivation of people, which is mainly manifested in the following aspects: First, it stipulates that education "cultivates people for whom" and "serves for whom (which society and class)". This qualitative regulation lies in clarifying the social nature and fundamental direction of talent training through education, so as to cultivate people who meet certain social requirements. The second is the qualitative stipulation of the educational object, which is mainly reflected in two aspects: on the one hand, it stipulates the social tendency of the educational object; On the other hand, it stipulates the basic qualities that the training object should have, that is, what aspects should the education object develop and what qualities should be cultivated. In a word, the qualitative stipulation of educational purpose on educational activities shows that educational purpose, as the overall requirement of cultivating people, always inherently determines the social nature of education and the quality of the development of educational objects, reflecting the needs of certain social development.

Second, the basic types of educational purposes

From its functional characteristics, it can be divided into value and operability; According to the characteristics of its requirements, it can be divided into ultimate and developmental; From the point of view of practical importance, there are formal and informal decisions.

(A) the purpose of value education and operation education

The purpose of value education: refers to the educational purpose with value judgment significance, that is, to achieve the required educational purpose with certain value. It shows a certain value orientation of personnel training and is the most fundamental value core to guide educational activities.

Operational educational purpose: refers to the educational purpose with practical significance, that is, the specific educational goals to be achieved in reality, indicating some specific goals that the actual educational work strives to achieve, and generally consists of a series of short-term, medium-term and long-term specific educational goals.

(2) The ultimate goal of sex education and development education.

Ultimate educational purpose: Also known as ideal educational purpose, it refers to the educational purpose with ultimate result, which indicates the ultimate result of all kinds of education and its activities in human cultivation, and it implies the nature that human development needs to be "perfect".

The purpose of developmental education: also known as the purpose of realistic education, refers to the continuous educational purpose, indicating the various results that education and its activities will achieve in different stages of development, and indicating the various requirements for human training in different periods and before and after different stages.

(3) The educational purpose of formal and informal decision-making.

The educational purpose of formal decision-making: refers to the educational purpose determined by certain social forces and required by various levels of education.

The educational purpose of informal decision-making refers to the educational purpose contained in educational thoughts and theories, which exists with the help of certain theoretical propositions and social foundations, rather than being formally established by certain social powers.

Third, the function of educational purpose.

Function of educational purpose: refers to the function of educational purpose on actual educational activities.

(A) the directional function of educational activities

It is embodied in the following aspects: first, it plays a directional role in the social nature of education, and has clear provisions on "training people for whom" in education. The second is the directional effect on human cultivation. Third, it plays a directional role in curriculum selection and curriculum construction. Fourth, it plays a directional role in the teaching direction of teachers.

(B) the regulatory function of educational activities

The first is to adjust by determining the value. The second is to standardize in a standardized way. The third is to regulate in a targeted way.

(C) the evaluation function of educational activities

The first is the judgment and evaluation of value variation. The second is the evaluation of educational effect.