Childlike mind sees the world, while children talk about society.
On the morning of April 1 1, 2006, a special hearing was held in Conference Room 40 1 on the fourth floor of the government office building in Gulou District. Students from Class 4 (7) and Class 5 (4) of Nanjing Mechanics Primary School held hearings on "garbage truck leakage" and "vehicle speed limit at the campus gate" respectively. They reported their research in the past year to a jury composed of government officials, education experts and sociologists, and asked them to show their plans. Zhou of Jiangsu Provincial Education Department, Ju Wencan, Deputy Director of Jiangsu Provincial Teaching and Research Section, Du Kechang, Deputy Director of Nanjing Education Bureau, Secretary of Nanjing Teaching and Research Section, Deputy Secretary of Gulou District Committee Tao Shixian, Deputy Director of Gulou District Government Chen Hua, Director of Gulou District Education Bureau Zhou Yuegu, Deputy Director Chu Hong, Chief Shen Zhong of Solid Hazardous Waste Registration and Management Center of Jiangsu Provincial Environmental Protection Department, Deputy Chief Zhu Jingzhou of Nanjing Traffic Police Team 5, Director Zou Liquan, Associate Professor Wang Heng of Nanjing University, Professor Peng Ruwen of Physics of Nanjing University and other leaders and experts.
The students in Class 4 (7) put forward a common phenomenon. The garbage truck will leave sewage in the process of loading garbage, but it will leave sewage after transporting garbage, giving off an unpleasant stench, and the surrounding residents are afraid to open the window to breathe. The pupil investigated the existing relevant policies and laws, and found that the law made clear provisions on garbage cleaning and other issues, such as imposing fines, but did not make clear provisions on the behavior of garbage trucks leaking water and polluting the environment, and there was no clear punishment provision, which was not binding enough on the problem of garbage trucks leaking water. The students put forward four solutions. First of all, they suggest that residents sort their garbage in a wet way. The second is to set up a special kitchen waste recycling box in residential areas to facilitate the public to dispose of leftovers and peels; The third is to change the traditional hand-held dustbin into a pedal dustbin to prevent rainwater from entering the dustbin; Fourth, the sanitation department should improve the existing equipment and try to use garbage trucks with good sealing performance. Pupils have also made action plans, such as writing letters to the Environmental Protection Bureau and other government departments, publicizing foreign advanced garbage disposal methods and garbage trucks with good sealing performance, interviewing NPC deputies, reflecting the water leakage problem of garbage trucks in Nanjing, and calling for an early solution through them.
The primary school students in Class 5 (4) put forward a survey report on "the speed limit of vehicles at the school gate". Primary school students pointed out that almost every day after school, the school gate has to experience the scene of "road fright". According to the survey, traffic accidents occur frequently within 200 meters of the school gate, and there are about 60 primary schools near Nanjing Road, accounting for about 40% of the total. However, the traffic signs near the school are not perfect and striking. Through the understanding of the existing policies, it is found that although there are policies to protect the legitimate rights and interests of minors, there are no corresponding punishment measures. In this regard, students have formulated solutions, such as implementing a limited one-way street in front of the campus during school hours and after school hours, setting speed limit signs 200 meters away from the left and right sides of the school gate, setting touch traffic lights and surveillance cameras at the school gate, and setting speed bumps on the road at the school gate. Primary school students also wrote letters to traffic management bureau, traffic police five brigade and other departments, and wrote open letters to parents of students with cars, calling on them to slow down.
The actions of primary school students have been highly concerned by relevant government departments. At the hearing, administrative leaders, experts and scholars from provincial and municipal education departments, environmental protection departments and transportation departments fully affirmed the children's civic awareness and social responsibility, and put forward their own views on the children's programs. As a new type of moral education practice and a special way of holding a hearing in the government administration building, civic education practice has aroused great shock and praise from the participants. Tao Shixian, deputy secretary of Gulou District Committee, delivered an important speech at the meeting. He said that from the hearing, he felt that the students were looking at the world with childlike innocence and talking about society with childlike language. The questions raised by children are normal phenomena of adults, which arouse our thinking, alert us and give us responsibility. Children's participation in social investigation explains Deng Xiaoping's platform that education should face the world, the future and modernization, and inspires us how to carry out quality education and how the Ministry of Education can implement the concept of honor and disgrace that we are advocating at present. Education should make children become learners, discoverers, researchers, creators and solvers. He said that the problems of children's investigation must be reflected to the relevant government departments so that the reasonable plan can be implemented as soon as possible. Deputy Director Zhou of Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education also delivered an important speech. He thinks today's activity is a special, wonderful and meaningful educational activity. He said: "I have been engaged in education for decades. For the first time, I saw the successful practical education of Chinese primary school students consciously participating in politics according to law. Children are concerned about public issues, not personal issues, but general issues; Children's analysis is full of rationality and science, not imagination; Children's suggestions have their legitimacy, and activities are carried out within strict legal units; Children's action plans can be practiced, not fancied; So many children take part in the activities, which are widely popularized and strong in mass. Today's educational activities are perfect and wonderful. This significance has gone far beyond our educational activities today. More importantly, it embodies a big problem, that is, how the government, society, individual citizens and our education department can absorb joint efforts to build a harmonious society. What we see today is the image of future social management, which shows us the picture of the healthy development of our civil society under the leadership of the future government. The children's behavior also shows how the future citizens of our country should develop. In a society with a sound legal system, on the one hand, we should know how to use the law to safeguard our legitimate rights, on the other hand, we should know how to love the motherland as the greatest glory in accordance with the eight honors and eight disgraces advocated by General Secretary Hu. From today's activities, we can see that the theme of moral education in mechanical primary schools comes from life, from practice and from children's surroundings. It is not an empty sermon, but a realistic experiential and practical civic behavior. We saw another successful example of quality education in Gulou District, Nanjing. It is exploring. " Director Zhou also called on the whole society to join hands and work together for the future of the motherland!
More than a dozen media, such as Nanjing Daily and Live Nanjing, made special reports on this hearing. The hearing greatly encouraged all the students who participated in the activity, and the citizens' sense of pride and responsibility doubled. They believe that this process is a valuable growth experience, which will change their understanding of themselves, life, community and society. This experiential civic education practice in mechanics primary school guides students to "learn to be responsible" and promotes students to "study hard, grow up happily and develop in an all-round way", which has become a beautiful landscape in moral education in the new period.