Life education attaches importance to human value and embodies the people-oriented concept. College counselors should put life education into practice to promote the healthy development of students and their own lives. The practical work of college counselors in life education In recent years, the phenomenon of ignoring life, such as hurting one's own life or others' lives, has occurred frequently among college students. The reason is that college students are in a critical period of forming their outlook on life, lacking a correct understanding of themselves, society and nature, due respect for life and correct belief in life, easily confused by values, lacking a sense of meaning in life, and the competition and pressure brought about by the global information age and social transformation. College counselors are the main group and educational force in higher education, and play an important role in the growth and success of college students. It is of great practical significance for counselors to strengthen life education, give full play to their role in practical work, guide college students to know, cherish and develop life, pursue the meaning and value of life and improve the quality of life.

First, the connotation of life education

Life education was first put forward by Jay Donner Walters of the United States in 1968. He believes that school education should guide students to fully experience the meaning of life and help them prepare for the challenges of life. In the following decades, the concept and practice of life education developed continuously. Life education abroad is carried out through two main lines: life education and death education. For example, Australia established "Life Education Center" in 1979, while Japan advocated "Yu Yu Education" and "Yu Yu Education" with the theme of loving life. The function of life education in Taiwan Province Province has changed from preventing suicide and reducing suicide rate to exploring the value of life, the meaning of life, interpersonal relationship and the relationship between man and nature. The connotation of China's life meaning is: first, from the standpoint of universal anthropology, it is considered as an exploration of the purpose and meaning of life; Second, from the standpoint of sociology, it is believed that the meaning of life is value, and the meaning of life can be reflected in the process of creating value for society; Thirdly, from the standpoint of the existence of individual life, especially when individual life is facing difficulties, it is believed that the meaning of life is to make people hold on in the face of pain, misfortune and death and find a "reason to live".

Second, college counselors should establish the concept of life education.

Education itself should be the education of life, and the fundamental problem of education is the problem of people and how to know and treat people. Both educators and educational objects should regard life as an important concept. Therefore, the concept of life education established by college counselors mainly includes two aspects. First, establish a student-oriented concept and care about students' living conditions. At present, in the absence of separate life education courses in many schools, counselors should take advantage of their wide scope of work, strong comprehensiveness and frequent contact with students to carry out life education. Second, while reflecting on how to cultivate the educational objects, we should pay attention to the life state and development of counselors' individual lives, realize the value confirmation of counselors' individual lives in the realization of specialization, and turn the "professionalization of counselors" from cold instrumental rationality to warm life feelings.

Third, the role of life education in the work of college counselors

1. Counselors should take life education as the first perspective of students' ideological and political work.

Life education is an indispensable part of ideological and political education in colleges and universities, and it is also the main classroom and position of life education in colleges and universities. Traditional ideological and political education emphasizes politics and preaching, and its content is abstract, lacking humanistic and perceptual things. It explores life from life ontology and its value. Therefore, ideological and political education in colleges and universities should increase the proportion of life education, strengthen the education of students' "life consciousness", start with life education, guide college students to establish correct attitude and purpose in life, establish correct outlook on life and values, learn to understand, care for and respect life, explore and show their own life value, stimulate students' vitality and guide them to enhance their life value. Counselors regard life education as the first perspective of students' ideological and political work. While paying attention to students' individual life activities, we should cultivate students' positive life feelings, let them feel the existence of life, and cultivate students' awareness of cherishing life, so as to better solve the phenomenon of college students' indifference to life and really do a good job in ideological and political work.

2. Counselors use life education to promote the cultivation of students' good moral character.

The transformation of society, the agitation of multi-culture, the realistic problems and the confusion of thoughts have brought unprecedented impact on college students to establish correct values. Non-mainstream ideas and concepts corresponding to the market economy, such as pragmatism, egoism, liberalism, the concept of money first, the concept of pleasure, and the will to power, have had a negative impact on college students' outlook on life and values. However, the concept of school moral education lags behind the requirements of the times, resulting in the deadlock of school moral education. As the main moral education workers, counselors can guide students to actively participate in love activities and youth volunteer service activities, so that students can learn to care, respect and tolerate, experience the interest of life, discover the true meaning of life, feel the beauty of human nature, appreciate the beauty of life and promote the cultivation of their good moral character.

3. Counselors should take life education as the main content of mental health education.

In work practice, the new form of ideological and political work methods can no longer meet the ideological needs of students, and mental health education came into being and became more and more important. Life-related mental health education topics such as quality of life, happiness and development have been discussed more and more. Psychological problems are closely related to philosophical thinking of life. In practice, mental health education and psychological counseling can appropriately alleviate and adjust the problems caused by life dignity and life value, but to completely solve the problems, we must base ourselves on the philosophical level of outlook on life, values or life thinking. Counselors should take life education as the main content of mental health education, and adopt forms that college students like, such as psychological salons, psychological drama performances, psychological blogs, etc. Let students know the value and meaning of life, identify psychological crisis and help themselves and others effectively.

4. Counselors should give full play to the role of life education in helping college students with diligent scholarship and loan, and stimulate their life color.

In recent years, the problem of poor students has become prominent, and there have also been some tragedies of poor students' psychological distortion caused by poverty and the pressure of study and life on campus. China has basically established a diversified policy system of subsidizing students from poor families, such as scholarships, student loans, work-study programs, subsidies for special difficulties, tuition reduction and exemption, and "green channels" for admission. However, this kind of financial aid and humanistic care is only an external force. The key to realizing "double relief" for poor students and getting rid of living poverty and psychological poverty is the poor students themselves. Counselors should give full play to the role of life education in college students' diligent scholarship loan. Through life frustration education, let students realize that pain and suffering are a part of life. Only by overcoming pain and suffering can life be full of fun and vitality. Let us face up to setbacks, overcome difficulties, appreciate life more, cherish life, improve the meaning and quality of life, and constantly learn the survival wisdom and spiritual wealth that will benefit us for life.

5. Counselors should infiltrate life education into employment guidance and service.

Life education in a broad sense also includes life education and survival education. "Life education" advocates "cherishing life, knowing life common sense, mastering life skills, forming good living habits, caring for others and the collective, and setting up correct life goals", while "survival education" emphasizes "learning survival knowledge, protecting and cherishing the ecological environment, caring for society and nature, enhancing the will to survive, and improving the adaptability and creativity of survival". Facing the increasingly severe employment situation, college students must learn to survive, cherish their lives and improve their quality in an all-round way in order to improve their employment competitiveness. Counselors should infiltrate life education into employment guidance and service, and through theme class meetings and career planning guidance, let college students temper their emotions, will and personality, and establish a correct concept of career choice, thus promoting the smooth development of college students' employment work.

6. Counselors should make full use of life education in the construction of party groups and the cultivation of learning and thinking.

The relationship between life and responsibility is as inseparable as the relationship between fish and water. Responsibility is the support of life. If you lose your sense of responsibility, life will become a dead leaf with no vitality and value. People are responsible from birth. The responsibility of childhood is healthy growth, the responsibility of student is learning, and the responsibility after work is to be responsible for professional posts. In the construction of party groups and the cultivation of learning and doing, student party member and student cadres are groups with strong organizational management ability and influence among students, and they are the leaders and guides of students. Their existence is very important. How to cultivate the sense of responsibility of student party member and student cadres is an important issue that counselors must consider in their daily work. In the process of party group construction and study accomplishment, counselors should make full use of life education, strengthen the sense of responsibility of student party member and student cadres, cultivate their sense of urgency and meticulous work attitude, treat their work scientifically, pragmatically and deeply, always keep in mind the people-oriented principle, and put care for life in a very important position. Without a sense of responsibility, it will not only threaten the lives of others, but also threaten your own safety.

7. Counselors should attach importance to the role of life education in the construction of campus culture.

Active and healthy campus culture is very important for students' growth. The formation of a school's characteristics depends not only on its hardware environment, but also on its ideological connotation and soul spirit. Campus culture in colleges and universities should show the vitality and appeal of university culture under the new situation and the vitality of life while embodying various forms and rich contents. Counselors constantly infiltrate the concept of life education in their work, actively create an educational environment with the theme of "life education" and build a platform for students' growth. The most important thing in the campus environment is the harmony between people, people and nature, and people and society. Counselors who attach importance to life education will pay more attention to respecting the dignity and value of others' lives while advocating their own lives, and establish an equal and harmonious relationship between teachers, students and classmates, thus further promoting college student management and harmonious and stable campus construction.

In short, life education is the education of loving oneself and others, emphasizing self-esteem, self-love, self-reliance, self-reliance and self-improvement. Life education is also holistic education and real life education, including appreciation education, pleasure education and success education, as well as frustration education, adversity education and death education. In the final analysis, life education is a kind of life quality education, which needs the common concern of family, school and society. College counselors should attach importance to the role of life education in practical work, implement life education from the construction of knowledge system and subtle actions, and promote the healthy development of students and their own lives.

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