Faith is a state of firm belief in opinions, people or things. The power of faith is enormous. Faith is sometimes produced by goals, sometimes by faith, and sometimes by interest. In a word, faith is an idea, I firmly believe. The core of inspirational education is what kind of faith we give our students. This belief is first of all the "ambition" mentioned above, as well as self-confidence and morality. "I am the best" is a belief from the perspective of self-confidence. "I can be civilized, I can be polite" and "I come from China, and I have a Chinese soul", which is a moral belief.
Motivation is to mobilize and stimulate people's inner enthusiasm, initiative and creativity through external stimulation and influence. The elements of motivation are need, motivation and goal [1]. Educational motivation is a process in which educators create conditions to stimulate students' motivation and internal motivation in order to meet the needs of students' growth, success and moral education, so as to achieve the established educational goals. [②]
In educational encouragement, belief is students' firm belief in educational goals. Encourage students to have confidence in their educational goals through education.
A few years ago, there was an "inspirational education" featuring "oath encouragement" in a school in Shandong. When you get up, you shout an oath, when you run, and when you break. This kind of motivation has generated a certain degree of motivation, and many schools are scrambling to follow suit. A few years later, this incentive measure for the college entrance examination was stopped by the education department. After that, people's understanding of inspirational education stayed in the college entrance examination, and thought that inspirational education was to raise fists and shout slogans, that is, to enter Peking University Tsinghua, and elite education was popular.
The educational goal of the college entrance examination is bound to hurt students. Our inspirational education must be an educational incentive oriented by faith education. And this belief must respect the growth and development of students and take into account the needs of society.
Also, love and hate, fame and fortune can all be students' beliefs. Although these stimuli can have great power on people, their beliefs as students are definitely not good, because narrow love and "hate fame and fortune" are mainly considered from the personal point of view, without considering society. Only the belief that personal development and social needs are taken into account is correct. Of course, love in a broad sense, love for the motherland, love for teachers, love for parents and love for life are all very worthy of promotion.
Faith needs to be cultivated and cast. The method of education is very important, especially at the present stage in China.
Based on the theory of positive psychological suggestion, the theory of educational motivation and the theory of "obedience and identity internalization" of moral cognition, the research group adopted the "three-step education model". The main methods are: three steps for students' daily inspiration based on collective reading inspiration letter, three steps for tutors every month based on reviewing growth records, and class curriculum system based on theme class meeting. This model is simple and unique, and the effect is remarkable. Inspirational education is not only faith education, but more importantly.
In the practice of inspirational education, the research group wrote the moral content that students must accept in inspirational letters, and implemented it through scientific theories such as "three-step model" and whole-person education tutorial system. Because of the combination of moral education and inspirational education, good moral education effect has been produced in practice.
First of all, let's re-learn the concept of "moral education" which is used very frequently. The concept of moral education in "Encyclopedia of China-Education Volume 1985" holds that moral education is "an education in which educators exert systematic influence on the educated purposefully, systematically and systematically according to certain social and class requirements, and transform certain social thoughts and morals into individual thoughts and moral qualities". The Principles of Moral Education (1989) edited by fēn holds that: "Moral education is an educational activity that transforms certain social or class concepts, political norms and moral norms into personal morality." According to the moral education concept, the spirit of the Planning Outline and the moral education curriculum outline, the research group arranged the moral education content from the shallow to the deep into a moral education reading book "We have something to tell you" led by inspirational letters, which fully met the basic requirements of moral education.
Students' collective reading of inspirational letters is a moral education process and the main moral education model promoted by the research group. The research group believes that the core national moral qualities accumulated by Chinese civilization for thousands of years, such as patriotism, honesty and responsibility, need not be demonstrated. Students must be unconditionally accepted and educated through the scientific cognitive process of "obedience-identification-internalization". The research group wrote these contents in the inspirational letter, and through the mystery of the inspirational letter, used the method of positive psychological suggestion, and adopted the practice of reading the inspirational letter collectively to educate students, which theoretically met the basic requirements of moral education. The effect of moral education in practice is also obvious.
In Qufu No.1 Middle School, Confucius' hometown, 5,000 students were given three-step inspirational education. Half a year later, 5000 parents were surveyed for inspirational education, and 10 questions were set in the survey. The survey results show that 93% of parents strongly agree with the three-step inspirational education, 93. 1% think that children "become self-reliant, self-reliant and confident" or "study hard and make remarkable progress in their grades", and 95.2% think that collective reading of inspirational letters can "awaken children's conscience and stimulate their life potential".
According to the concept analysis and practical data of moral education, we think that the "three-step education model" based on collective reading inspiration letter meets the basic requirements of moral education from content to form. This is a good moral education.
Moral education should be combined with inspirational education, abide by Scientific Outlook on Development, be student-oriented, and let students grow with their own strength.
According to materialist dialectics, the external cause of the development of things is only the condition, the internal cause is the foundation, and the external cause can only work through the internal cause. "On the one hand, the process of moral education is of course a valuable environment and influence, but the prerequisite for this environment or influence to play a role is still the internal cause for moral education objects to accept this influence. In fact, the process of moral education is also a process in which the object of moral education itself is constantly constructed in morality and other aspects. Moral education should be the unity of environment and growth, and the process of value guidance and individual value construction. " [③]
Education must follow Scientific Outlook on Development and be student-oriented. In the process of moral education, if the object of moral education is not considered enough, it must be anti-moral education. Therefore, the research group advocates "let students grow with their own strength", giving consideration to moral education and student growth. Of course, "let students grow up on their own" is also aimed at serious educational chaos such as students being grown up, being tested and being studied.
Through the analysis of the above two points, we come to the conclusion that inspirational education is not only a belief education, but also a moral education. The combination of moral education and inspirational education endows moral education with "people-oriented" Scientific Outlook on Development connotation. Inspirational education is a combination of appreciation education and frustration education.
When we talk about inspirational education, we may think more about educating students in setbacks and how to generate self-confidence and firm belief in setbacks. However, inspirational education must be based on appreciation education. Only by appreciating students can students have confidence. Moreover, when students are frustrated, the appreciation of teachers is more important.
The "encouragement" of inspirational education is mainly to encourage, inspire, inspire and awaken. Therefore, our main means of education is appreciation education through various methods. German educator Dostoevsky said: "The essence of teaching art is not to impart skills, but to awaken, inspire and inspire." It shows that it is necessary to carry out "encouragement and encouragement" appreciation education in teaching.
In inspirational education, we often have some expressions, such as "You are the best" in business, "I am the greatest salesman in the world" and so on. These formulations are concrete values of life and have a strong incentive effect. But it is extremely important to point out that the "most" here is not necessarily the first, and it may not be in the future. But if you say that often, it will have a huge positive effect. It doesn't seem particularly important whether such a formulation is grand and logical. The inspiration and encouragement of this formulation is important and recognized.
In a word, inspirational education is a generalized education with faith education as the guidance, educational incentives as the means and Scientific Outlook on Development as the guidance. Inspirational education is a moral education that allows students to grow up with their own strength, and inspirational education is an appreciation education that allows students to overcome setbacks with their own will.
Inspirational education cannot be biased, nor can it be immune to it. It should follow the theory of multiple intelligences. Teachers should be good at discovering students' various intelligences, and give affirmation, encouragement and encouragement.