First, the meaning of educational purposes
The purpose of education stipulates what kind of person the educated are trained to be, which is the quality specification and standard of cultivating people and the general requirement for the educated. The purpose of education is generally formulated by the state or the state education administrative department to guide all kinds of education at all levels in a certain period of time.
1, the narrow sense of educational purpose refers to the general requirements put forward by the state for what kind of talents the educated should cultivate.
2. The broad educational purpose refers to people's expectations of the educated, that is, what changes or results they hope the educated will have in all aspects of body and mind through education. Its structural level is divided into upper and lower levels, which are educational purpose-training goal-curriculum goal-teaching goal in turn.
Second, the characteristics of educational purposes
The purpose of education has two obvious characteristics. One is the qualitative nature of educational activities by educational purposes, and the other is the sociality and contemporariness of educational purposes.
Third, the function of educational purpose.
The function of educational purpose refers to the function of educational purpose on actual educational activities, which mainly includes: the guiding function on educational activities; The regulating function of educational activities; Evaluation function of educational activities.
The above three functions are interrelated and comprehensively embodied. Orientation function is accompanied by evaluation function and adjustment function; The adjustment function needs to be based on the guidance function and evaluation function; The function of evaluation depends on the direction function.
The value orientation of educational purpose establishment;
First, people-oriented value orientation.
People-oriented value orientation emphasizes that human value is higher than social value, and human is the fundamental purpose of education. The value of education lies in meeting people's personality development and needs; The purpose of education is to promote the natural development of human nature and instinct.
Second, the value orientation of social standard.
The value orientation of social standard regards meeting social needs as the fundamental value of education.