In, after more than a century's experience, Shanghai Women's Federation and Shanghai Normal University established Shanghai's first institution of higher learning specially for women-Women's Culture College, aiming at cultivating compound female talents with modern consciousness.
At present, Tongji University Women's College has added courses including flower arrangement and tea ceremony (female red class), cooking knowledge, nutrition and health care, family decoration and layout knowledge, female image design, temperament training and so on for girls to choose from. In the image design class, the girls put on their favorite clothes, put on appropriate makeup and interpret their understanding of beauty in beautiful music; In the home economics class, the girls weave furry gloves with dexterous hands and give them to the lonely old people on the Double Ninth Festival. In the flower arrangement tea ceremony class, the girls bathed in the bright sunshine outside and followed the teacher to experience the traditional charm.
The purpose of receiving female education: can you avoid puppy love? Can you hook up with rich people?
However, strong gender characteristics and artificial gender division cast a mysterious veil on girls' schools and colleges, and attracted more curious eyes to explore the mystery of "girl country".
Zhang, the headmaster of the middle school affiliated to Shanghai Normal University, was once the headmaster of Shanghai No.3 Girls' Middle School. He said that there is not much difference between modern girls' schools and ordinary mixed schools in teaching mode and curriculum content, but the focus and methods of education can give full play to women's advantages. For example, give full play to women's language advantages and strengthen foreign language education.
Zhang believes that girls in girls' schools are more independent, their personalities and specialties have been better cultivated, and the development of girls' middle schools is also in line with the rise of women's status in modern society. But he said: "Women's secondary schools are different from higher women's colleges. Women's secondary schools are basic education, while women's universities emphasize employment training to increase their competitiveness in choosing jobs. The problem of female middle school students is a complex problem, which is related to social development, education system and college entrance examination system. "
The women's education courses offered by Tongji University have also been well received by parents and students. Yue Changzhi, Dean of Tongji University Women's College, also believes that these courses are helpful to enhance students' female consciousness, help them play the role of future mothers and wives, and cater to students' interests.
Xin Wang, a journalism student at Fudan University, studied in three girls' high schools. She thinks that her study life in girls' high school has advantages and disadvantages. "On the one hand, she has exercised the ability of girls to be independent; On the other hand, after all, society is made up of two sexes. As a small society, there will always be imbalances in schools with missing poles. " She told reporters that in girls' middle schools, gender awareness has also faded. "Because there is no difference, men and women have to do it themselves anyway, such as learning agricultural military training and doing cross-dressing in performances such as art festivals." When talking about the significance of girls' school education, Wang Xin said that she should have a broader range of thinking, a more flexible way of thinking, a relatively strong practical and organizational ability, and a "good temperament."
Therefore, women's education is sought after by many parents in Shanghai. His mother told reporters: "Have you seen Chen's" Golden Branches and Jade Leaves "? The predecessors of the three girls' middle schools, Santa Maria Girls' Middle School and Chinese and Western Girls' Middle School, represent status and class and cultivate wives for superior families. I want my daughter to be influenced by the aristocratic atmosphere here. "More parents send their daughters to girls' schools in order to let their daughters study with peace of mind in a pure environment with only girls, so as not to fall into the dispute between men and women prematurely.
Expert: When girls grow up in an abnormal state, their psychological development will be different.
However, many people think that women's education is insufficient.
Professor Zhou Jiaji said that some parents send their daughters to girls' schools in order to prevent their daughters from falling into the problem of men and women prematurely. "At loggerheads, Tang Priest became a beloved rich man in the girl country. No boy in the school can put an end to puppy love? I do not think this is necessarily the case. If you can't get rid of the opposite sex, it will cause greater mystery and temptation of the opposite sex and cause a stronger yearning for the opposite sex. "
The College of Women's Culture of Shanghai Normal University has adjusted its curriculum and teaching plan according to the characteristics of women. The major of women's college is Chinese language and literature, and China ancient literature is the basic course of undergraduate course. However, unlike the general Chinese department, it pays more attention to the cultivation of students' cultural quality, advocates learning knowledge from feelings, increases the introduction of female writers and roles, and looks at works from the perspective of feminist literary criticism. In view of the lack of abstract ability of women's logic, the college has also added language narrative logic to train students to engage in literary writing with meticulous thinking.
From the survey, we deliberately chose the role of students, and let these peers express their views on girls' schools first. In the cognition of female middle school students, we find that the investigators are still very vague about girls, and think that only 77.3% of girls are girls. What is even more ridiculous is that during the investigation, a classmate asked us, "Are there two boys' classes in your school? "The investigation on the personality and characteristics of female middle school students is also a bit unexpected. When asked "What kind of girls do you think can enter a girls' school", there are more quiet and crazy candidates. Some investigators asked us orally. Most of them think that quiet girls can be more open, more able to show themselves and become more cheerful, while crazy girls will become introverted because of the elegant educational goals of girls' schools. At the same time, many parents are willing to send their daughters to girls' middle schools. In their view, the unique "corresponding" education in girls' schools will be very helpful for girls to become talents and have a good impression on female middle school students. At the same time, they also expect this kind of education to improve.