China's economic and social development has entered an era of structural change with supply-side structural reform as the main content. In addition, the rise of new scientific and technological revolution, especially the rapid development of national manufacturing industry, has put forward more urgent and higher requirements for the development of vocational education. "Made in China 2025" puts forward the grand goal of striving to enter the ranks of manufacturing powers in 10. On the one hand, it needs large-scale technical personnel as support, on the other hand, it also needs firm and down-to-earth spirit of the times as guarantee. In other words, vocational education not only undertakes the traditional task of cultivating technical and skilled talents, but also shoulders the new mission of carrying forward the craftsman spirit.
What kind of technical talents are needed in the new era? That's a great country craftsman. The so-called craftsman, it is customary to refer to people with craft expertise, that is, craftsmen. Great country craftsmen refer to craftsmen who meet the needs of great country construction and development. This is a developing concept, and its connotation has been upgraded. Vigorously developing advanced manufacturing industries, transforming and upgrading traditional industries, mass entrepreneurship and innovation require technical and technical talents with complete categories, exquisite skills and courage to innovate. The state proposes to focus on high-level professional and technical talents and innovative talents, and implement the knowledge updating project for professional and technical talents and the training plan for outstanding engineers in advanced manufacturing industries, which puts forward higher requirements for technical and skilled talents.
What kind of zeitgeist does the new era need? That is the spirit of craftsmanship. Craftsman spirit is to establish a spirit of perseverance in work, Excellence in products produced, meticulous carving and pursuit of the ultimate; Craftsman spirit is a concrete practice of practicing socialist core values, a further deepening and promotion of model worker spirit and labor spirit, a powerful starting point to guide the vast number of skilled workers to effectively improve their technical skills, and an important pusher to promote structural reform on the supply side and realize the transformation from a manufacturing power to a manufacturing power. A craftsman without craftsman spirit can't create fine works and achieve classics; A nation without craftsman spirit can't write the legend of a great country and realize the dream of a strong country.
"Two kinds of public goods" is a repositioning of the historical task of vocational education, and the development system of vocational education needs to be changed accordingly.
The status of vocational education should be restored. Vocational education is playing an increasingly important role in the modernization of the country, and the expectations and requirements of the country and society for vocational education are getting higher and higher. Therefore, in the top-level design, it is necessary for the state to further adjust and strengthen the orientation of vocational education, make clear arrangements at the policy and legal levels, and take operational measures to guarantee it in specific work practice. At present, the most urgent problem to be solved is how to break the dilemma that vocational education is equivalent to "poor student education" and how to improve the treatment of skilled workers. To improve the status of vocational education, we must grasp these two "bull noses" in order to get twice the result with half the effort.
Quality standards should be rebuilt. For vocational education, the craftsman spirit, as a spirit of the times, can no longer be confined to the concept and category of moral education, and belongs to the significance of cultivating technical and technical talents, but should be provided as an independent public product. Different times have different requirements for the quality of workers. As a talent norm in the new era, great country craftsmen have surpassed the concept and scope of ordinary craftsmen. Therefore, the quality of vocational education should not only expand the connotation, but also include the promotion of craftsman spirit and improve the level of talent training to meet the needs of the new era.
The teaching system should be rebuilt. The content of education should be reconstructed, and the two tasks of carrying forward the craftsman spirit and cultivating great country craftsmen are both integrated and independent. Craftsman spirit can neither be attached to the cultivation process of great country craftsmen, nor can it be neglected or replaced by each other. To reconstruct the teaching material system, the content of craftsman spirit should not only rely on the infiltration of majors and disciplines, but also develop independent courses and teaching materials; To reconstruct campus culture, craftsman spirit should be included in the construction framework of campus culture not only as a part of moral education culture, but also as a part of national culture and social culture. The object of service should be reconstructed, and the spread of craftsman spirit should not be limited to the process of school education and teaching, but should serve the teachers and students of the school and face the whole society.
The teaching staff should be reorganized. The new historical task of vocational education undoubtedly puts forward new requirements for the construction of vocational school teachers. On the one hand, the government and schools must inject new ideas into the training of vocational education teachers; On the other hand, the majority of vocational school teachers should actively adapt to the new situation and actively change their concepts. Change the concept of talents and earnestly establish the concept of cultivating great country craftsmen; Change the concept of teaching and educating people, and inject the craftsman spirit into the whole process of education and teaching; Change one's own development view, and let the craftsman spirit become the core of teachers' professional development and professional growth.