As for what is life education, according to my understanding, it should be divided into broad sense and narrow sense. As for life education in a broad sense, I think it is living education, real education, democratic education, useful education and universal education.
As for life education in a narrow sense, I think it is education from life, education for life, education based on life, education oriented to life, education with life, education that changes with life, education for future life, and education that prepares students for self-reliance and integrity.
In daily education, some schools and teachers understand life education as teaching students to wash dishes, cook, sweep the floor, peel fruits, dress and tie shoelaces, which means to let students grow crops, work, and take care of themselves. These are just education that enables students to master common sense of life, cultivate ordinary living habits and cultivate self-living ability. Of course, they belong to life education and are the proper meaning of life education, but these are definitely not the whole of life education.
The world outlook, outlook on life, values and democracy formed by children in life education, the accumulated feelings of caring for others and loving the whole world, and the broad, far-reaching and inclusive mind. , all belong to the category of life education.
Second, education should be closely linked with life.
Life is a big society, a melting pot, a colorful world, a colorful world, an inexhaustible source of education, an ocean of education, and a fresh teaching material that can be used for education all the time.
Education is not for students just to take exams, but for life, for children's current study life, for children to adapt to future life after leaving campus, and for children to live a happy life after entering life.
At the same time, the ultimate goal of education is people, people with all-round development, people in the future society, people who can live independently in the future, and people who can be responsible for their own lives.
Therefore, education and life should complement each other. Education should not be abandoned in life, and its role should not be ignored and diluted. Education should be a part of children's life experience, and children should be able to fully understand, control and enjoy life through education.
Of course, education should not be divorced from life, but should be carried out around life. Life should run through education and should be reflected in all aspects of education.
Mr. will durant once discussed the complementary relationship between education and life: "Education includes two processes, which complement each other. In a process, human beings pass on the rich heritage accumulated from generation to generation to growing individuals, including knowledge, skills, morality and art; In another process, individuals use these heritages to develop their abilities and enrich their lives. ..... Education is a process of improving life, that is, enriching individuals with human heritage. If this important transmission and absorption process is interrupted for half a century, then civilization will die and our descendants will be more primitive than barbarians. "
Understanding all this in the sense of civilization inheritance and individual life is a clear and thorough insight into the relationship between life and education.
Third, the biggest problem in education at present is living.
Education is closely related to life and should be closely related to life.
However, the reality is that teaching is dead, teaching is dead, and books are dead. Education emphasizes books, practice, examination, application, scores and ability. Education is divorced from reality, away from life, ignoring the combination of hand and brain, and combining knowledge with practice.
Education is not really integrated into life, and life does not really run through education. Education is completely divorced from life, schools are completely divorced from society and books are completely divorced from reality. In other words, education is all about life.
It is only because the actual life, social reality, personal dignity and harmonious coexistence with the surrounding environment and nature that students will face in the future are not in the exam or in the score. Just because children related to life should have something more useful than grades, such as liveliness, romance, interest, self-confidence, perseverance, cooperation, emotion, happiness and strength, and they are not in the exam.
Many schools don't offer music, physical education and art classes, life classes and labor classes for the sake of their current scores. For safety reasons, they cancel their autumn outing, spring outing and even recess.
Winter and summer vacations are the time for children to enter communities, factories and mines, and participate in social practice activities. However, more and more children are sent to cram schools and special classes, and winter and summer vacations become their third and fourth semesters.
Now scores have become the only pursuit of education, examinations have become the only attribute of education, repeated examinations have become the only magic weapon of education, brute-force has become the only means of education, and success or failure has become the only standard of education.
The score-oriented single value system will inevitably collapse. A student with only traditional scores may not be able to live independently and calmly, and be smart to cope with the future workplace and family.
In my opinion, this kind of life-oriented education can only cultivate one giant baby after another, one exquisite egoist, one bookworm who can't carry the basket with his hands, shoulders heavy burdens, is diligent in four bodies and doesn't care about whole grains, and is full of food and clothes and reaches out.
Fourth, a good education is an education to return to life.
First, returning to life education can show the simplicity of education.
Everything in this world is very simple, whether it's being a person or living in the world.
Simple things are the most beautiful, attractive and lasting. Zhuangzi has a saying: "Simple, the world can't compete with it for beauty."
Simple education embodies simplicity, true colors, tranquility, no exaggeration, no glitz, no impetuousness, true feelings for children and education. Simple education is the most beautiful.
Life is true, plain, simple and beautiful, and education is better when it comes into life, blends into life and returns to life.
Second, returning to life education can highlight the happiness of education.
Happiness is a subjective cognition and feeling, and it is a beautiful mood and life state.
Happiness is also the ultimate goal pursued by human society. At present, whether it is accurate poverty alleviation, rural revitalization, urban-rural integration development, or two hundred-year Chinese dreams, it is for everyone's happiness in China.
Education is the art of human beings and a happy cause. Education itself should be happy, students' study life should be happy, educators' working state should be happy, campus atmosphere should be happy, and education cannot be separated from happiness.
In the process of returning to life, education will transform everything in the outside world into a realistic and vivid personal life field, make it enter education, campus and classroom, and become vivid educational content, so that education can establish a vivid and true connection with the world, society and reality, thus improving the quality of education, enhancing the literacy of educators, infiltrating the body and mind of the educated, and education will become beautiful and happy.
Thirdly, the education returning to life is closest to the truth of education.
The Analects of Confucius says: "A gentleman should be a teacher, but a teacher."
Educators can't just focus on scores, and education can't just stay in imparting knowledge. Education should be closely integrated with life. This is the "foundation" of education.
Zhang Bocen, a famous educator, said: "As an educator, we should not only teach students knowledge and exercise, but more importantly, teach them how to be a man." "Teaching students how to behave" is also the "fundamental" of education.
The core of Mr. Tao Xingzhi's life education is "the unity of knowledge and action". The "Six Emancipations" advocated by him, liberating children's eyes, mouth, brain, hands and time and space, is a vivid interpretation of the "integration of knowledge and action" and the most effective way of doing things.
Through these "basic" actions, education is full of the flavor and interest of life, and embodies the value and significance of life. In this process, let education gradually rely on the essence of education, close to the true nature of education, and let education really return to simplicity.
Fourthly, the education of returning to life can follow the essence of education.
Lv Dongbin has a poem: "After the rain, Shan Ye is full of weeds and the valleys are poor. Do you usually grow up by training? "
Education is not omnipotent, nor is it omnipotent. Every child has his own growth direction and his own growth trajectory. We can't do everything, and we can't interfere.
What we can do is to prepare the soil, provide proper water, nutrients, sunshine and air, and let them naturally take root and sprout and grow naturally.
Education has the logic and perspective of life, the starting point and orientation of life, and education will be more peaceful, more normal, and less eager to help others, killing the goose that lays the golden eggs, and fishing for the best.
Fifth, returning to life education can make education full of warmth and tension.
"Deer hunters can't see mountains, fishermen can't see the sea", because life education can't see scores. This kind of seamless and enjoyable education is exactly what every child likes and expects.
Starting from the original ecological life education scene, to construct education, to generate education, to implement education, children will not only be an empty sermon, a tough indoctrination, of course, it is impossible to feel like purgatory. On the contrary, they will feel that they are enjoying life and being baptized by a better life.
Education is a part of life, and education itself is life. When education unfolds the picture of life for children, the most beautiful education, the warmest education and the most tense picture of education will unfold bit by bit.
Sixth, returning to life education can make education return to "home" and return to that warm and tender "home".
In these years, perhaps we walked too fast and too hastily, forgetting why we started and where we were going, so that education lost its way home in the utilitarian jungle.
As a result, people are impetuous, people are anxious, there is a rush that ignores the starting line, there is a theater effect that ignores order and rules, and there is a cruel reality of "opening your eyes and telling lies and starting to compete", "increasing one point and killing thousands of people" and "learning from the dead as long as you can't die".
In the face of the new normal, the country no longer pursues GDP unilaterally, no longer talks about heroes with GDP, and sports no longer decides the outcome with gold medals. This country has entered a new era of sustainable development.
Is it time for us to reflect on our education, wake up immediately, dare to face it directly, dare to show lost courage, and return to our "home" where we receive education and that "home" full of warmth and tenderness?
Education returning to life can make education return to common sense, tranquility, authenticity and humanity, which should be the only way for education to return to "home" and that warm and tender "home".
Verb (abbreviation of verb) How does education return to life?
First, educators should firmly defend the life concept and concept of education with the conscience, responsibility and mission that an educator should have.
There is a saying that those who get Chinese get the world, and those who get readers get the world. I think that people who get life education get classroom, education, life and the world.
Faced with the abnormal impetuousness of the present society and the overall anxiety of the whole people, a complete life-oriented education, as an educator with conscience, responsibility and mission, should have the confidence and courage to "not cover your eyes for clouds, not be fascinated by noise, not cater to anxiety, and not teach truth for utility".
In educational practice, we should replace "study" and "examination" with "learning to live" and "being a man", and we should consider students' whole life of study and school.
For this reason, we should encourage children to enter life more, know life, understand life, adapt to life, learn to live and love life. Knowledge may be forgotten, but having confidence in life, having a positive attitude towards life and having the ability to live will really determine the state and appearance of children's future life.
Second, campus culture should be painted with bright colors and branded with traces of life.
Culture is very important. It is the best education and the highest level of management. A campus can have nothing, but it can't be without culture.
A real and lively campus culture doesn't have to be tall. Teachers and students must do it by themselves, and they must create it together, reflecting their efforts and wisdom.
The content of campus culture can come from life, the world, all kinds of things, all kinds of people, flowers and trees, and complicated life, all of which can enter the field of vision of campus culture.
The material of campus culture comes from life. Wooden sticks, bamboo joints, bricks and tiles, eggshell paintings, soybeans, cans, mineral water bottles, waste paper boxes, etc. It can all be used in the construction of campus culture, turning waste into treasure and turning "corruption" into magic.
The expression of campus culture should focus on life, such as farming culture, door and window culture, canteen culture, dormitory culture, toilet culture, wall culture, classroom culture, corridor culture and so on. It is necessary to highlight life, reflect life, embody life, and let children learn to live in a rich cultural atmosphere of life.
Third, curriculum research and development should be based on life and strive for life-oriented courses.
Education is everywhere in life, and courses are everywhere in life. As long as we are present, all games are courses. As long as we adapt to the situation, all scenarios are opportunities for curriculum generation. When we walk into nature, flowers and trees are blooming, insects are singing, water is gurgling, pines are bursting, distant mountains are silhouetted, and the sky is high and clouds are light, which is the best life course. When we enter the community and society, local customs, changes in the world, vicissitudes of life and political hotspots are also good life courses.
For parents and teachers, we are talking about courses. It is also a rare course to stand there, set a benchmark and set an example.
Such as "bamboo" course, "bean" course, 24 solar terms course, tea course, labor practice course, local culture course, traditional festival course, four gentlemen course and so on, these are all very good courses.
Life-oriented courses are in front of children and around them, which are more tasteful and grounded. Children have a kind and close feeling, easy to accept, can leave a local accent and remember homesickness. No matter how far they go in the future, these children will always have a nostalgia in their hearts.
Fourth, classroom teaching should be life-oriented, so that the classroom can enter nature and real life.
The acquisition and accumulation of many important wealth in life mainly comes not from books or simple preaching, but from life and life experience.
From life, from life experience, because it combines a person's true feelings, a person's hard work, a person's spiritual genes, and a person's life wisdom, it is the deepest, most lasting and longest.
In subject teaching, we should be good at digging out the life factors behind subject knowledge, which are deep or shallow, wide or narrow, thick or light, shallow or deep, and then pay attention to the classroom and organize teaching on the basis of these factors and elements, so that the classroom will be useful, interesting and effective, the teaching will be dynamic, quality and meaningful, and the students' learning will be motivated and meaningful.
At the same time, open the classroom in all directions, create various educational opportunities, and let students get in touch with a more real society, see a wider world and experience a more colorful life.
Fifth, the organization of community activities should be linked with the future society and life.
Small community, big society. Small activities, big stage.
Without activities, there is no education. Without colorful activities, there will be no happy education.
Community activities are special courses and classes that cannot be replaced by any courses and classes. In club activities, children will find playmates, partners and study companions, which becomes an important reason why they fall in love with school and learning; In club activities, children's interests, hobbies, talents and specialties can be displayed, so that every child can hold his head high; In view of what students need in the future and what necessary survival skills and abilities they have, we should do a good job in community activities to lay a solid foundation for them to start their future lives.
The appeal and expectation of "returning education to life" seems like a spark, but every educator has the responsibility to collect some firewood.
Education can truly return to life, and the impetuousness, utilitarianism, anxiety and narrowness that education is facing at present will be solved, and education will go more calmly and lightly in the future. ...
I always believe that as long as the direction is right, you should never worry about the distance!