The importance of class culture
In the past few years, people have become familiar with campus culture. From neglect to attention, from rational understanding to practical operation, step by step. Educators are increasingly aware that campus culture is inseparable from the work of class teachers. Class teachers pay more and more attention to managing class collectives with cultural vision, concepts, means and methods, so as to cultivate a new generation of builders and successors with perfect personality facing the 2 1 century. However, many educators are not familiar with the concept of class culture. In fact, class culture and campus culture are inseparable, and they are the foundation of teachers' campus culture construction, such as colorful, personalized and diversified class culture, vivid and distinct personality development, and strong pure, energetic and imaginative environment atmosphere.
Therefore, in this sense, class culture can be said to be an extremely important part of campus culture. Class culture is an influential activity for class teachers to use and create the spiritual atmosphere, cultural system, cultural relationship and cultural environment of the class, and to cultivate and cultivate students' cultural personality.
Here, we regard the cultivation and development of students as an agricultural production process like the vigorous growth of seedlings, that is to say, students' personality is the result of the comprehensive action of soil, rain and dew, sunshine, air and hard work of cultivators. Pupils, in particular, are in the immature stage of spiritual development and are easily induced and influenced by external factors. Their personality development is directly related to the edification, guidance and choice of class culture, and this influence is potential and long-term, not immediate, but a deep-seated influence, which may benefit or regret for life. Therefore, only when the class teacher influences, edifies and educates with noble personality, thoughts and feelings can he achieve practical results.
The development trend of knowledge economy and the competition of comprehensive national strength require us educators to understand the cultural personality construction of future talents from a higher level, especially to develop students' scientific and technological quality and humanistic quality, cultivate national character and good personality psychological quality in the 2/kloc-0 century, and cultivate new people in the 2/kloc-0 century with all-round development qualities of truth, goodness, courage and beauty. This is a glorious and arduous cross-century historical responsibility faced by schools in the process of modernization of basic education.
It is a strategic issue to cultivate talents with modern quality from primary school students, especially the feelings and aspirations of patriotism and patriotism. The goal of real class culture and campus culture construction is not only a beautiful school environment and lively student activities, but also the most important thing is to improve the quality of people who have been influenced by class spirit and class training.
For a long time, under the influence of the baton of exam-oriented education, class culture and campus culture have shown a bound and standardized cultural feature, ignoring the development of students' personality, thus resulting in the lack of students' professional knowledge, interest in learning, low grades and low quality of basic civilization. Therefore, in today's implementation of quality education, it is a long way to go to strengthen the construction of class culture. Class culture and students' quality development? Do some exploration on this topic, and at the same time take this topic as an opportunity to change the educational thinking of teachers in our school, explore new methods, pay attention to new art, establish a new image, create a new situation in the work of class teachers, and make our education more adapt to the innovative development of 2 1 century.
Therefore, our school (Huzhuo Experimental Primary School) put forward the above topic.
Second, the definition of the topic content
Class culture is an influential activity for class teachers to use and create the spiritual atmosphere, cultural system, cultural relationship and cultural environment of the class, and to cultivate and cultivate students' cultural personality. This is not a rigid, rude and didactic educational model, but a flexible, gentle and affectionate spirit, system, relationship and environment.
The spiritual atmosphere is the spiritual strength that students, teachers and class groups are integrated, United and friendly, full of personality and vitality. Cultural system refers to the formal social dominant cultural values required by the school, especially how to creatively put forward that * * * has to abide by * * * has to abide by * * * and enjoy * * * according to the actual class? Chapter three of the contract? Commitment and responsibility.
Cultural relationship refers to the cordial, civilized and equal relationship between teachers and students. It is fully manifested through class style, class style and interpersonal relationship. It is not a political relationship, nor an economic relationship, but an inseparable relationship of inheritance, harmony, affection and spiritual interaction.
Cultural environment refers to the creative activities and their state that reflect the will, emotions, preferences, aesthetic interests and personality interests of class teachers and students, and is the result of the interaction between people and the environment. Because the typical environment shapes the typical personality, and people create and change the environment by their own strength.
Class culture is closely related to primary school children's culture, and its characteristics are mainly childlike, imaginative, open and interesting. Specifically, it has the following three functions:
1, improve students' moral quality
Class cultural activities can cooperate with classroom teaching and carry out ideological education for students, which has obvious behavior-oriented function. For example, through various interest groups, cultural and sports activities, class newspapers and other forms, moral education is incorporated into various activities, so as to establish the behavior patterns needed by classes and let students know what classes and schools advocate, oppose, should and cannot do. Through its own appeal, class culture affects students' behavior norms, ideological and moral concepts and lifestyle choices, so that students can receive information in the subconscious state and gain insight and enlightenment.
2. Develop students' intellectual potential.
Primary school students are energetic and curious, and classroom teaching often cannot meet their knowledge needs. The class has carried out colorful. Theme class meeting intelligence game? Wait? Activity education? Cultural activities can enable them to gain a lot of extra-curricular knowledge and exercise their various abilities. Class culture can arouse and stimulate students' interest in study and life, form a good atmosphere to encourage people to make progress, and is conducive to the development of students' intelligence.
3. Improve students' physical and mental health.
Our children grew up in a quiet eastern country. Quiet and not lively, rigid and not very lively, are the personality weaknesses of many primary school students. Modern people need it? Exercise more, work and play more efficiently? Carry out class sports activities and entertainment activities. Education through fun can help students maintain a happy mood, improve their aesthetic and future life interest, enrich their imagination, beautify their minds, enhance their physical fitness and promote their healthy physical and mental development.
From the meaning, structure and function of the above-mentioned class culture, class culture is a kind of regular knowledge, including some opinions, ways of doing things, beliefs, values and experiences gradually formed in the daily life of the group, which is regarded as a part of nature.
Iii. Research contents (sub-topics) and research points
According to the connotation of class culture construction and the reality of the school, we divide the research into the following research contents (sub-topics): 1, research on the goal of class culture construction; 2. Research on the construction of class cultural environment: 3. Research on the construction of class cultural system: 4. Research on the construction of class cultural relations.
After several rounds of discussion, we have determined the focus of each sub-topic as follows:
1. Research on the construction goal of class culture
The goal of class culture construction is to shape students' cultural personality, that is, to cultivate students into high-quality cultural personality with ideals, morality, discipline, ability, cooperation, creativity and healthy development of personality by cultural means. The construction and cultivation of cultural personality is the ideal and scientific pursuit of educators. It has deeper and richer connotations than the single and narrow concept of personality and personality in biology, psychology and ethics, and has more guiding value for educational practice. This requires educators to learn to look at students' development from a cultural perspective, construct cultural personality from primary school class culture, and at the same time change their concepts from knowledge education to personality education.
2. Research on the construction of class cultural environment.
Class cultural environment includes material cultural environment and spiritual cultural environment, and class cultural environment is an important part of class culture. To establish a distinctive class cultural environment, the head teacher needs to work hard and meticulously for the class collective and students, cultivate and carry forward the fine traditions of the class collective, and carefully plan and build with the class cadres and students.
Elegant, vivid and vivid class material culture has a subtle educational influence and appeal to primary school students. On the basis of providing good educational equipment for the class, the head teacher carefully packages the whole class and classroom, so that every wall and corner of the classroom has educational content and educational significance. In Suhomlinski's words, whether planting flowers and trees, hanging famous sayings and aphorisms, picture slogans or using wall newspapers, it is necessary to carry out in-depth planning from an aesthetic height in order to tap its subtle educational function, and finally even the school wall is available? Talk? . We mainly study from the following aspects: arranging the classroom, running the class newspaper well, building the book corner well and running the innovation work wall well.
Class spiritual culture is the soul of class culture, which is manifested in the class spirit and cultivation of a class collective. At the same time, it can be reflected by class emblem, class song, class flag, class flower and class color. However, these cultural creation activities and cultural education methods have not been paid due attention for a long time, and so have many schools, even if they exist. To this end, we draw lessons from the experience of campus culture and class culture construction, so that students can actively participate from reality.
3. Research on the construction of class culture system.
System is a kind of culture, which plays an important role in culture and value orientation. The construction of class system is an indispensable cultural resource for the construction of class culture, which creates a unique cultural environment for the growth of children's personality.
The system construction of class has rich cultural connotation, which is reflected in all aspects of primary school life. It is the basic criterion to regulate students' school life with the binding force of the system. As far as its characteristics are concerned, it can be divided into formal system and informal system. Generally speaking, the formal system is formulated by the school. Is it a kind? Presupposition system mainly regulates and restricts the most basic aspects of students' study and life, such as work and rest system and examination system. The formal system is generally regarded as a hard system, and its behavior norms are often external and basic. Informal system is a code of conduct created by the head teacher through his independent thinking according to the requirements of formal system. Informal system can usually be regarded as a soft system. It does not restrain students through external norms, but plays a constructive educational function and has a positive advocacy role. Its content is often more flexible and rich than the formal system.
4. Research on the construction of class cultural relations.
Teachers and students are the eternal theme of educational activities. From ancient educators to researchers today, no one can talk about education without teachers and students. In the process of education, the relationship between teachers and students is the main content of school and class culture construction. Because the nature of teacher-student relationship is the fundamental factor that affects and determines the class cultural relationship, paying attention to teachers' rights and emphasizing teachers' authority are the important characteristics of our school culture. Changing the traditional school culture and building a new relationship between teachers and students is the main task of class culture construction. Establishing an equal and harmonious relationship between teachers and students is the central task of class culture construction, and it is our brave practice to challenge and transform the traditional relationship between teachers and students for thousands of years. It is the responsibility and obligation of our generation of teachers and our educational belief to let the improper authority of teachers disappear from our school and return the rights and freedoms of students to students. How can we achieve this goal? It is the key to achieve this goal to master the strategies and principles of scientific communication between teachers and students and change the old ideas endowed by traditional culture.
Fourth, the main results of the research
Through the unremitting efforts of all researchers, the research has achieved certain results, mainly in the formation of an intensive collection of 50,000 words of research papers on "Class Culture and the Development of Students' Quality", most of which have been published in relevant journals, initially exploring an educational model with universal promotion value, and publishing several monographs in national, provincial and municipal education newspapers and periodicals. Many teachers in our school have participated in special seminars in institutions and schools all over the country and won the first prize of paper exchange.
In recent years, with the care and strong support of leaders at all levels in provinces, cities and counties, our school has become one of the advanced schools in the county to realize educational modernization, and the school has been rated as? National Excellent Reading Group Jiangsu Young Pioneers Meritorious Brigade Nantong Model School Nantong Civilized Unit Nantong Young Pioneers Advanced Collective Rudong County Art Education Advanced Unit Rudong County Youth Civilization? , has been evaluated for many years? Garden unit? .
In recent years, Rudong County, the representative of the drum team of primary school students in our school, participated in the performance of the third Nantong Shaodaihui and won the prize? The best drum team in Nantong? . In June this year, he won the first prize in the county drum team competition. The entertainment programs written and performed by the school have participated in more than a dozen performances by superiors and won grade awards. The art education activities in our school have promoted the development of students' quality in all aspects and achieved gratifying results. Among them, the reading activity group was commended by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, and more than 50 computer groups were awarded at or above the county level. More than 65,438+000 specimens produced by Science and Technology Group were sent to the city to participate in the exhibition. School table tennis and basketball have won many prizes in city and county competitions, and many students have been sent to city and county junior sports schools for training.
In the process of research, teachers know that in order to develop students' quality, schools must attach great importance to the construction of class culture, because:
Class culture can create a good atmosphere for students' quality development. For example, organize students to edit tabloids, design blackboard newspapers, edit and perform textbook dramas, and collect famous sayings and aphorisms. It can broaden students' knowledge horizons, enhance students' sense of ownership, develop students' imagination, thinking and creativity, and improve students' ability to distinguish right from wrong and aesthetic appreciation.
2. Class culture can guide students to grow up healthily. Class culture can publicize the truth of being a man to students, introduce scientific learning methods to students, let students know about knowledge outside textbooks, and let students be influenced by typical characters and deeds.
3. Class culture can be used as a bridge formed by a diligent and energetic class. The formation of an excellent class group can not be achieved only by the head teacher, but also by organizing students to carry out colorful educational activities, creating a harmonious and upward collective psychological atmosphere and satisfying students' psychological experience about collectivism. These activities mostly belong to the category of class culture. Through the construction and strengthening of class culture, all students' subjective consciousness and participation consciousness are stimulated and mobilized, so that students can become the masters of class collectives, play a leading role in collective class cultural activities, change passive acceptance into active adaptation, and thus realize self-education.
4. Class culture can guide public opinion, let students develop good behavior habits, let students distinguish right from wrong, eliminate evil and correct mistakes. It is not difficult for us to see that an overbearing student who bullies others and tries to attack others will be timid in the face of collective public opinion, and a student who has done bad things at the expense of others will bow his head under the strong condemnation of class culture. Therefore, an important task of class collective construction is to do a good job in class culture construction, strive to guide and cultivate healthy and upward collective public opinion, make it a means of moral evaluation and students' self-education, and urge students to develop good behavior habits.
On the History of Class Culture
Because most of children's study and life are spent in class groups, class culture is one of the most direct and important sources that affect students' education. In this sense, the improvement of students' quality mainly depends on the construction of class culture. Study on Class Culture and Students' Quality Development? This topic has profound guiding significance and theoretical research value. According to the research plan, we have basically completed the scheduled task, and the subject is close to the conclusion, but we think the research on this subject is only temporarily over.
We are well aware that compared with the requirements of the development of the situation, due to the limitations of research strength and time, some contents have not been thoroughly studied. On the basis of summing up the experience and shortcomings, we will further study this topic and strive to build the school into a cross-century school with scientific, artistic, experimental and innovative characteristics.
Waller, an American educational sociologist, discussed school culture in Sociology of Teaching (1932), which initiated the study of class culture. In 1950s and 1960s, Coleman and Clark in the United States and Hargreaves in Britain discussed youth culture and student culture types, which led to a systematic and scientific study of class culture. Since the 1970s, the empirical analysis of the interaction between school education knowledge and class, led by British educational sociology, has prompted the study of class culture to shift from "input-output" research to "black box research".
The so-called "culture" refers to the sum of material wealth and spiritual wealth created by human beings in the process of social and historical development, such as literature and art, astronomy and geography, education, clothing and so on. As a class culture, it has its own extension and connotation, just like architectural culture and catering culture. First of all, it is a personality culture, which represents the image of the class and embodies the life of the class. Secondly, it is the wealth created by all the teachers and students in the class, and it is the crystallization of all the teachers and students' labor. Thirdly, class culture is a dynamic and developing systematic project, and its main body is students.
Class culture is the soul of a class and unique to each class. It has the functions of self-regulation and self-restraint. Class culture involves all kinds of people related to the class, including the relationship between students and teachers, which we used to pay more attention to, and the relationship between teachers and parents, which we easily ignored. The relationship between teachers is a joint effort, and the relationship between teachers and parents is complementary.
Class culture can be divided into "hard culture" and "soft culture" The so-called hard culture is a kind of "dominant culture", which is a tangible and visible environmental culture, that is, material culture, such as famous sayings and aphorisms on the classroom wall, portraits of heroes or world celebrities; Horseshoe-shaped, rectangular and oval tables and chairs; A painting and calligraphy gallery that displays students' painting and calligraphy art; A popular science corridor that inspires students to explore the unknown world; A "little global village" showing love; Eye-catching patterns and slogans such as class training and class style hung in front of the classroom. Soft culture is a kind of "hidden culture", including system culture, concept culture and behavior culture. Institutional culture includes all kinds of class laws and regulations, which constitutes an institutionalized legal cultural environment; Concept culture is a variety of ideas about class, students, society, life, world and values, which pervades every corner of the class and exerts a subtle influence on students. Behavioral culture is a behavioral culture triggered by systems and concepts, which is manifested in students' manners and mental outlook.