First, strengthen leadership and raise awareness of the importance of national defense education.
For a long time, there has been a general deviation or misunderstanding about the importance of national defense education in colleges and universities: some colleges and universities think that national defense education is only a matter of the army or military colleges and universities, and has nothing to do with ordinary colleges and universities, and occupy the teaching hours of national defense education on the grounds of heavy teaching tasks. Some colleges and universities regard military training as the whole content of national defense education for college students.
As long as students participate in military training, complete military theory courses and get corresponding credits, it means that students have received national defense education, and the national defense education of the school has completed its task and achieved its goal. In national defense education, leading cadres in colleges and universities not only have the responsibility of organizing and guiding national defense education, but also play a leading role in popularizing national defense education and establishing national defense concepts, thus promoting the in-depth development of national defense education in colleges and universities.
Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the cultivation of national defense consciousness of leading cadres in colleges and universities, stimulate the enthusiasm of leading cadres to care for and support national defense education, improve their understanding of the importance of national defense education, clarify the tasks and objectives of national defense education in colleges and universities, improve the content of education, adopt flexible and diverse ways and means, establish and improve the evaluation mechanism, and increase the supervision and funding input of national defense education.
Second, carry forward the theme of patriotism and improve the content of education.
Strengthening the national defense consciousness and concept of the whole people has become an important content of patriotic education, and strengthening the national defense concept of college students is an important subject entrusted to national defense education in colleges and universities by the times. At present, the content of national defense education in colleges and universities focuses on military theories and skills related to the content of national defense education.
Among them, military theory is instilled in students in the form of classroom teaching, mainly including military thoughts, military technology, China's national defense, world military, high-tech war and so on. Military skills are mainly mastered through military training, which involves queuing, shooting, tactics, military terrain, comprehensive training and so on.
In order to enhance the effectiveness of national defense education, colleges and universities need to combine the socialist core value system and integrate patriotism into the cultivation of correct world outlook, outlook on life and values. They need to combine students' ideological reality, go into campus, textbooks, classrooms and students' minds, cultivate students' patriotism in the process of education, and establish the concept of safeguarding national unity and putting national interests first.