The social practice of the Young Pioneers has its particularity. It takes complex society as a big classroom, boiling social life as a topic, people as teachers and direct practical activities as the main form to implement. Therefore, we must think about the starting point of Young Pioneers education from the perspective of social needs.
1, pay attention to social reform and broaden educational ideas.
Only by focusing on social reform can the social practice of the Young Pioneers keep up with social development and the pulse of the times. The reform and development society, great changes and attractive prospects have greatly attracted and inspired young pioneers. We can screen out many rich educational themes and practical educational ideas from a large number of vivid contemporary educational materials. For example, starting from understanding the great achievements made in the reform and opening up in my hometown, we can carry out a series of social investigations, inspections, visits and other activities and carry out national education with the theme of "good socialism"; Starting from guiding and understanding the reform, we should go deep into factories, schools, hospitals, rural areas and scientific research departments, understand the basic contents and measures of the reform, and know what is a "foreign-funded enterprise", what is a "full-staff employment system" and what is a "rural tax and fee reform". Through investigation and hearing, we can understand that the essence of the reform is to promote the development of productive forces. Starting with cultivating the team members' sense of ownership and participation, we can carry out the activities of integrating ideal education with social practice with the theme of "I contribute to reform" and "I contribute to reform". Under the background of social change, we should look for this kind of rich and practical educational content, so that children can feel the pace of social progress through personal experience, absorb all kinds of information of social development, correctly accept new ideas and concepts, draw strength from them, stimulate patriotism and prepare for future reforms.
2. Advocating social civilization and expanding educational connotation.
A considerable part of the Young Pioneers' social practice shows that children directly participate in the construction of socialist spiritual civilization. Young Pioneers can form a positive force in changing social customs and establishing new styles, and the players exert their influence with unique pure love. However, "participation" is only a means, and "education" is the purpose. When the Young Pioneers organize social welfare activities such as helping the disabled, caring for the elderly, greening the motherland and protecting the environment with social services as the main form, they cannot be satisfied with letting children do good deeds blindly. They should start with experiencing the emotion of helping others and learning to "serve the people", understand the profound connotation of "people's interests are above everything else" through practice, cultivate noble moral quality and good behavior habits, and accelerate the process of their own civilization construction. In organizing some practical activities aimed at social problems to participate in supervision and management, such as "tax law propaganda", "taking to the streets to correct irregular words, popularizing Putonghua" and "staying away from illegal crimes and striving to be qualified citizens", we should not only start with cultivating the sense of social responsibility and ownership, but more importantly, we should constantly strengthen the moral awareness of team members through practice, consciously resist external interference, improve our own quality, and lay the foundation for stepping into society in the future.
3. Pay attention to social hotspots and explore educational themes.
Contemporary children face a constantly changing world, and all changes in the external environment will affect children's thoughts and behaviors. In particular, some social "hot spots" will inevitably come into contact with and be affected to a certain extent. We should always pay attention to social "hot spots", be good at finding and extracting valuable information from social "hot spots" in real life, and make use of its positive and favorable educational factors to carry out social practice activities without losing time.
For those "hot spots" that reflect the healthy progress of social life, we should promptly guide team members to actively invest from the front. For example, during the Athens Olympic Games, we launched the activity of "Love my China and cheer for the Olympics". Last summer, the flood disaster in the south of our province was a hot spot. We chose to help the children in the disaster area to repair the campus and start school on time, and carried out the activity of "hand in hand, offering love", which not only met the needs of the society at that time, but also made the children accept the fine tradition of the Chinese nation and the spirit of communist cooperation through activities with the characteristics of the Young Pioneers. Because the activity was cut from the front, it was strongly encouraged by the whole society and the whole national spirit at that time, which strengthened the effect of the activity and had a far-reaching impact on the children.
For those "hot issues" that have positive social significance but are not suitable for children to actively participate, we should choose a good angle and cut in from the side to explore potential educational themes. For example, in the activity of "prohibiting the spread of pornographic culture on campus", if we focus on organizing team members to check pornography and eliminate pornography blindly, it is likely to have side effects. And extended from the activity, choose the breakthrough point as "read a good book, evaluate a good book;" Seeing and judging excellent film and television works, taking positive guidance is undoubtedly the same as "banning pornography" and more in line with the law of children's education.
For some "hot spots" with abnormal social mentality and unhealthy social trends, we should carefully analyze them, purposefully, selectively and guided them to contact some negative teaching materials, improve their ability to distinguish right from wrong, beauty and ugliness, let them weather the storm and see the world in social practice activities, and enhance their immunity to the erosion of bad thoughts. For example, on the issue of "China overseas students are unwilling to return home after their studies", it is the mainstream to guide the team members to conduct actual investigation and analysis, so that they can see with their own eyes that the vast majority of China overseas students love their motherland and are willing to fight for it for life. Let them use their own minds to analyze those who try their best to apply for "green cards" in pursuit of superior material life and money in western countries. After studying abroad, many foreign students resolutely gave up their foreign buildings and returned to the motherland, striving wholeheartedly for the four modernizations. This kind of activity, as long as it is properly guided, can also dig out positive themes.