But university teachers, especially those called? Green pepper? What is the holiday life of our young teachers? The reporter heard that many teachers? Tucao? Winter vacation is never a leisurely holiday, but a stressful holiday? Research period? .
Not only that, but also scientific research, professional titles, teaching and even getting married, having children and raising a family? Nails are nails, rivets are rivets? However, under the current higher education system, there has been a complicated causal relationship.
A worry that does not match the actual age: health.
Speaking of winter and summer vacations, you can still play when you are a student; Now I am a teacher, and my schedule is very full. ? This year is Lin Xiaodong's third winter vacation as a university teacher. He made a careful plan long before the holiday? Holiday plan? Write a review, two new papers and proofread a book within one month.
Being a teacher in a university has always been Lin Xiaodong's favorite job. To this end, he once thought he was very lucky. Lin Xiaodong's hometown is in Hunan. He went to Shanghai in 2004. After graduate school, among the 40 doctoral students who graduated in the same batch, he was the only one who stayed in school to teach.
A clever fool has known who it is for thousands of years, and his eyes are full of chrysanthemum. ? This is a sentence from Huang Tingjian's poem Qingming Festival, which Lin Xiaodong used to describe his understanding of life. Life is a process, as long as you can do what you like, why bother. ?
But there is a pressure that Lin Xiaodong didn't think of before he took office? Healthy? . He spit out these two words without hesitation. This kind of worry is out of line with his actual age.
Last semester, colleagues around Lin Xiaodong got sick one after another, and some people died of malignant tumors. The news frightened him. In addition to physical reasons, he privately believes that staying up late for a long time and overworking under high pressure all the year round are the reasons that lead to poor immunity and easy illness of colleagues.
Now, Lin Xiao has learned a lesson from a friend? Hit a wall? When you are tired of sitting in front of the computer, you hit the wall with your waist to relieve the muscle pain in your back. However, there is another one in his heart? A pimple? That's your office.
May be part of the formaldehyde exceeded the standard? . Lin Xiaodong's office was transformed from a large conference room. After the big office was divided into six small rooms, he was placed in the middle room. The reporter noticed that there are two kinds of chemicals besides formaldehyde in the office. ? Why not put some green plants? ? Lin Xiaodong told reporters helplessly: There are no windows here. No ventilation. ?
The flip side of decent work: it's hard to support a family.
Like Lin Xiaodong, Li Dan is a lecturer, but he is special? Nostalgia? Office.
Li Dan teaches in the Department of Electronic Engineering of a university in Shanghai. During the winter vacation, all the students went home, but he went to work almost every day. Nine to five? Running schools is much more diligent than usual.
There are children at home, so the office is quiet. ? Born in 1982, with a lot of white hair on his head. Writing papers and preparing to apply for natural science funds occupied most of his winter vacation.
School is a quiet place. Sometimes, Li Dan hides in the office, which seems to be an escape from real life. ? At school, everyone's income difference is not too big, but go out and have a look, and I am the same age, then the difference is big! ?
Li Danchu calculated an account slightly: because of raising children, the family is less than 5,000 yuan a month, which is 60,000 a year; Excluding 20,000 yuan for car maintenance and other miscellaneous items, the annual expenditure is about 654.38+10,000 yuan.
This year is the sixth year of Li Dan's work. According to his present income, he can barely support his family. It's really hard to have some savings on hand. It is a father's duty to save money for children's education in the future, but now it has become a hidden worry. Among my colleagues, someone jumped ship to the enterprise for high salary.
Lin Xiaodong has been in Shanghai for 9 years, and now his salary is about 4,000 yuan. He also has an account: every meal is solved in the school cafeteria, which costs more than 10; I seldom buy new clothes, except transportation, communication and daily necessities. I have a monthly balance of about 2,500, and I can save 30,000 a year. ? The house provided by the school can live 1 1 year. 1 1 year can't afford to buy a house, so this is the only way out. ?
In 20 12, Lian Si, an associate professor in university of international business and economics, led a team to conduct a sample questionnaire survey on 38 young college teachers under 40 in 515 cities, and combined with in-depth interviews and group discussions, completed the Investigation Report on Young College Teachers in China (hereinafter referred to as? Report? )。
Young teachers in colleges and universities now, after 20 years of hard work? Make it a positive result? When they get a degree, win the competition with their peers and win the university teaching position, many people find themselves under greater pressure than before: external, internal, peers, generations, students and old teachers. What's even more incredible is that under the current higher education system, there are complicated causal links between words that are not related in themselves, such as scientific research funds, promotion of professional titles, academic achievements, teaching evaluation, marriage and children. ? In the report, Team Lian Si described the situation of young teachers in this way.
Are there many undergraduate students in Lin Xiaodong? With a house, a car and children, all the developed ones have reached the middle level of the enterprise. ? Parents who used to be very proud of their son now speak a little stale. Sometimes, a neighbor's unintentional words may hurt them. ? Your son is a famous university teacher, and his family should be rich, right? ? Parents will inevitably complain in front of Lin Xiaodong when they hear such words. At this time, Lin Xiaodong would also think, if I had listened to my father after my master's degree and passed the civil service exam, would my life be better now? But he immediately overthrew himself. Do what you like, others will repay you, so you should have a psychological balance. ?
Teaching and scientific research are both busy, and it is not easy to balance.
The report shows that 72.3% of young teachers think that work? Stress? And the biggest pressure comes from scientific research. Because most colleges and universities directly link professional titles and job promotion with the number of published papers, monographs and applied topics, 78. 1% of the respondents feel that they have been engaged in scientific research for a long time? Not enough? .
In the interview, the reporter learned that in most colleges and universities in Shanghai, the daily work of young teachers mainly includes several parts: First, complete the work assigned by the person in charge of the research group, including scientific research tasks related to the topic, and guide students to revise papers, choose courses and answer questions. The second is to complete the work arranged by the school, including undertaking teaching tasks for a certain period of time and various assessments of the school. Third, self-improvement, including participation in academic activities and independent research. Some young teachers know that the last item is actually the most important, which is not only related to the long-term career development, but also affects the teaching quality, but this part of the work can not produce benefits in the short term. Limited by the existing evaluation mechanism, it is difficult for inexperienced young teachers to apply for the project independently, so they can only give it to them. Boss? (the person in charge of the research group) works or undertakes teaching tasks to obtain funds for self-improvement and independent scientific research.
Some universities either go up or transfer? Or? Go up or leave? Our policy is also a heavy burden for young teachers. So-called? Go up or leave? , refers to the limited contract appointment system for the primary positions of teaching and research staff in the school, and the teachers who cannot be promoted to higher positions after the expiration of the appointment period will no longer continue to hire the teaching and research staff. Either change jobs or move out.
Li Dan said that his university has many teachers' titles. Minimum threshold? For example, there are several representative works, national or provincial project leaders, and natural science funds. He has worked for six years, and he has worked twice? Boss? Applications for the Natural Science Foundation were submitted, but none of them were approved. ? It takes a lot of time to write an application, ranging from 2 months to 6 months. Because I want to introduce the research significance and research methods, not only related to the previous research, but also to find out the innovation, which is very brain-consuming. ?
When people apply for fund projects and experts review them, they have to read more than 100 materials in one morning, which is very fast. So whether you can judge the key depends on whether the topic is good or not, and whether the previous paragraphs are beautiful or not. ? Lin Xiaodong, who teaches in the Chinese Department, believes that the fund evaluation of liberal arts is often based on researchers? Think? How about that, isn't it? Do what? He said, according to the needs of fund evaluation, how is the progress? Take a chance? At present, he can't and can't engage in scientific research? Bet? More energy is still spent on teaching.
Cao He's idea coincides with mine. This year is the third year for Cao to work in East China University of Science and Technology. Besides teaching the public elective course "Ideological and Moral Cultivation and Legal Basis", it also teaches the professional elective course "Economic Philosophy" for graduate students. ? Most young teachers want to do their lessons well. No young teacher came into the school and said. I don't care about students' evaluation at all, just do research. ? Because my career has just begun, standing on the podium and having a good class can stabilize a teacher's rear area. ?
Cao still remembers the first year of work: 80% of his time was spent on teaching and 20% on scientific research. 20 10 graduated in July, and will be on the podium in September, teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses. Excluding the 0/5-day investigation in rural Shandong/KLOC, there is only one and a half months left for preparing lessons in the two-month summer vacation. ? I didn't have enough time to prepare lessons for the first time. I only made a few books at that time. Infrastructure construction? , such as courseware and lesson plans, barely completed half. When I was most nervous, I had just finished this week's class and was about to do next week's content. ?
In the past year, Cao spent 60 days in the countryside. He admits that when the teaching pressure is high, he can't spare so much time. Now the time spent on teaching is gradually decreasing, but the scores of students' evaluation of teaching are increasing year by year. Among Professor Cao's four classes, only one class has reached more than 90 points every year in the previous two years. All four classes are above 95 this year.
Inspiring pressure? , meet the utilitarian evaluation system.
Qu Jun, an associate professor in the history department of East China Normal University, has worked in universities for six years. He believes that the pressure on green peppers is not small, but there are also types of pressure. For example, young teachers have old and young lives; But in the workplace, besides the burden of teaching and scientific research, there are also knowledgeable professors and eager students, which should also be considered? Inspiring pressure? .
Qu Jun has visited abroad. He said that European and American academic circles practice elite education, and it is very difficult to get a doctorate. Especially in the United States, it is common to get a degree in 1956 or even 1978. At the same time, the competition among university teachers is fierce. But once you get a teaching position, especially a tenure position, teachers can basically concentrate on academic research. In China, the base of young teachers is relatively large, and the competition is particularly fierce after entering the job. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Education, by the end of 20 10, the number of young teachers under the age of 40 in Chinese universities has exceeded 860,000, accounting for 63.3% of the total number of full-time teachers in Chinese universities.
Almost every young teacher interviewed thinks that the existing evaluation system and methods are too utilitarian. I want to be satisfied with my studies and do something. Conscience works? However, if we use quantitative indicators to measure these, it seems that we are doing nothing.
In recent six months, Lin Xiaodong has been working hard at proofreading, sorting out ancient books, punctuating and proofreading. Many people think he is stupid. On the one hand, it is impossible to gain academic status by doing such basic work; On the other hand, many people think that military schools are? Insect carving skills? Yes, it should be, something is wrong, that is, there is something wrong with the level and ability. At present, an ancient book has just been proofread, and Lin Xiaodong didn't get a penny, only happy for himself.
Without the assessment, it will definitely not work. Without external restraint mechanism, colleges and universities will degenerate; However, we should not let the exams make people smoke and turn the university into a chicken farm for fast-growing chickens. ? What should be a university teacher? Find interest and care about ideals? This process. But green pepper also laments the gap between ideal and reality: teaching and learning should not only endure poverty, but also have some? Opportunism? The ability to cope with evaluation, let yourself? Live broadcast? It's really too difficult for many people to go on.