First, the combination of work and study: Cai Yuanpei's labor education thought
After middle age, Tao Xingzhi changed the name of "knowing and doing" to "knowing", emphasizing that "doing is the beginning of knowing", and advocating labor education through practical activities to gain true knowledge, and then feeding back classroom culture education. Tao Xingzhi's "behavior" is practice and "knowledge" is cognition, which emphasizes that perceptual knowledge is generated in practice and then rises to rational knowledge.
Second, the integration of teaching and learning: Tao Xingzhi's labor education thought
In Tao Xingzhi's view, life education is an original, independent and necessary education for life. He broke the limitation of school education and used all possible materials around the school to carry out labor education, which greatly enriched the content of labor education.
Third, work-study interaction: Wu's labor education thought
Wu proposed that labor education in primary and secondary schools should run through the whole education process. In addition, he also emphasized that labor education is one of the essential differences between new education and old education.
Wu Shuo: "Since our education is part of the general task of the struggle of the working people, it must run through the spirit of labor education ... and this is also one of the fundamental differences between our people's education and the old education monopolized by the exploiting classes."
Fourth, shoulder the heavy responsibility of national reconstruction: strict labor education thought
Yan (1890-1990), as a world-famous civilian educator, advocate and practitioner of rural reform movement, devoted his life to civilian education and rural construction in China and even the world, leaving an indelible mark on the modern educational history in China and even the world. His thought of labor education is embodied in the theory and practice of civilian education.
Requirements of strengthening labor education in universities, primary and secondary schools in the new period
First, fully understand the new requirements of training socialist builders and successors to strengthen labor education in the new period.
Labor education is an important part of Socialism with Chinese characteristics's education system, which directly determines the mental outlook, labor value orientation and labor skill level of socialist builders and successors. For a long time, all regions and schools have adhered to the combination of education and productive labor, and achieved certain results in practical education.
Second, comprehensively build a labor education system that reflects the characteristics of the times.
Offering labor education courses. Optimize the school curriculum as a whole, incorporate labor education into the national curriculum plan of primary and secondary schools and the talent training plan of vocational colleges and universities, and form a comprehensive, practical, open and targeted labor education curriculum system.
Third, extensively carry out labor education practice activities.
Encourage schools (family committees) and communities to carry out activities to show students' life skills. Students' participation in housework and mastery of life skills should be recorded in students' comprehensive quality files every year. Encourage children to take part in all kinds of social labor during holidays.
Fourth, focus on improving the ability to support labor education.
Strengthen security in many ways. All regions should establish a safety control mechanism with government responsibility, social coordination and the participation of relevant departments. Establish a risk dispersion mechanism of reeducation through labor involving the government, schools, families and society, encourage the purchase of insurance related to reeducation through labor, and ensure the normal development of reeducation through labor.
Five, strengthen the organization and implementation of labor education.
Encourage and support the creation of more excellent works with the theme of praising ordinary workers, vigorously publicize the typical figures and deeds of hard work, honest work and creative work, carry forward the theme of glorious work and creating greatness, take a clear-cut stand against all erroneous ideas of getting something for nothing, seeking pleasure and advocating getting rich, and create a good atmosphere in which the whole society cares about and supports labor education.