The best education often comes from experience and experience, and all crises are excellent educational opportunities. The epidemic is enveloped, and the children have a profound experience in this epidemic. This is a good opportunity to think about the meaning of life, develop social and emotional skills, understand the laws of nature, and set an example of learning.
Strengthen "life education"
Explore the meaning of life. In terms of the nature of education, life education is a kind of holistic education. It is not only an education about life and death in the public's cognition, but also an education for exploring the mission and meaning of life itself. Its ultimate goal is to let everyone know "who I am" and find their own unique life value. In the face of the epidemic, medical staff, scientific research experts, the People’s Army, and public administrators are struggling on the front line of the epidemic. Medical staff are doing their best to treat patients; scientific research experts conduct research and analysis day and night; the People’s Army efficiently completes hospital construction day and night, and expands treatment space, To accommodate more patients; public administrators dispatch various resources and issue corresponding policies to ensure the smooth development of treatment and the health of citizens and social stability. They all realize the value of life in their posts. Children can also start thinking about their own interests and advantages from now on? Who do you want to be in the future? What is the value of your life? These questions may not be able to find answers immediately, but they can grow with these thoughts, which is the value of education at this moment.
Enlighten life wisdom. Where does the understanding of life come from? Every one of us will have the same feelings from childhood to adulthood: parents have said a lot of great truths, but the real life experience comes from our own experience. The deeper our experience, the deeper our understanding, and the richer our experience, the richer our wisdom will be. The setbacks and hardships of life and every darkest moment are the keys to open the door of wisdom. Learn what happiness is through grief, learn to appreciate silence when you hear noise, cherish possession when you lose your love, and learn how to become strong when you encounter difficulties. Guide young people to maintain an open and accepting attitude towards crises and to take a correct view of every downturn in life. Wisdom gained through such thinking is the best gift of life. When a person has such a mentality, perspective and thinking to face all occurrences in life, and is accustomed to transforming the difficulties encountered in life into resources for progress in life, the wisdom of life will rise from time to time and continue to help them evolve themselves. Such a life attitude is the most important life wealth we leave to our children.
Improve life pattern. We also need to let children know that in addition to realizing self-worth in life, they must also pay attention to the value of others and assume social responsibility. We need to guide young people to observe which occupations use life to save lives, use life to awaken life, use life to guard life, use dedication to achieve others, and sacrifice to defend the country. Let young people realize that such a profession is worthy of respect. . People not only need to be independent, but also coordinated. When beings glow with their own unique light, they are also illuminating each other and affecting the entire society. When children gradually discover the value of their own lives as they grow up, they can continuously experience in the real society to accumulate life wisdom, and connect with others to realize social value, this is to build a community of human destiny.
Emphasis on "Social Emotional Learning"
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is an education that revolves around human emotions and social development. UNESCO has identified social emotional competence as one of the most important core competences in the 21st century, and promoted its learning programs on a global scale. Socio-emotional competence refers to the learning process in which children learn to understand and control their own emotions, perceive the emotions and needs of others, develop good interpersonal interactions, make responsible decisions, and effectively deal with various problems. There are many extensible topics in this field, and this article only discusses two entry points.
Learn emotional regulation. During the epidemic prevention and control period, when children experience excessive anxiety, it is usually due to the adult’s anxiety being passed on to the children. At this time, adults should adjust their emotional state first, so that children can gain a sense of security and calmly and positively. Against the epidemic. There are many ways of self-emotion adjustment: you can restore calmness through deep abdominal breathing, mindfulness (mindfulness) meditation, etc.; you can feel the discomfort caused by emotions, accept the existence of discomfort, and gradually calm down with your relatives and friends; you can talk with relatives and friends , Talk to them for comfort; you can focus your attention on things you are interested in and divert your attention; you can also seek professional psychological support to relieve your body and mind and explore yourself.
Develop a social perspective. Everything has its two sides, and moderate anxiety can also help children activate the physical early warning mechanism that they should have in emergency situations, develop risk prevention and control capabilities, and actively protect themselves. Therefore, if children show excessive optimism, they also need to pay attention. This is because they lack practical experience and have not yet recognized the connection between the epidemic and daily life. In this case, it is necessary to introduce a social perspective for the children to discuss, guide them to think about the particularity of this extended winter vacation, understand the severity of the epidemic, and what impact it will have on themselves and others' lives if improper protection, etc.
Universal "Nature Education"
During the epidemic, the source of the new coronavirus is the key point of scientific research. During this extraordinary holiday, we have created an opportunity for us to learn about nature and explore the relationship between man and nature with our children.
The law of coexistence between man and nature. In ecology, every life has its own niche and its function in nature. Certain species seem to have nothing to do with humans, but together with humans constitute the balance system of nature. Once a certain ecological niche is vacant, nature will lose its balance and ecological diversity will be affected. Therefore, every species is an essential part of nature. In addition, the ecosystem is a stable system. All species perform their duties. All transboundary and translocation will break the original stability. After the stability is broken, it will cost a greater price to return to stability. Humans need to learn more about nature and strengthen their understanding of nature, so as to clarify their position in nature and their boundaries with other species. We can guide children to understand the climate change and natural disasters that have occurred in recent years, and then explore the relationship between humans and nature. For example, how to treat the phenomenon of global warming, how to improve the problem of soil pollution, how to protect marine resources, and finally let children choose their own healthy lifestyles by understanding nature, respecting nature, and protecting nature.
Return to humanistic reflection through nature. In the same way, in human society, there are boundaries between people. When the border is invaded or broken, it will bring discomfort, and even lead to contradictions or conflicts in severe cases. We can guide children to understand the boundaries between people, for example, under what circumstances will they feel interrupted and violated, how they will feel at the time, and how they should express and respond. Similarly, we must learn to empathize, advocate empathy, understand the boundaries and rights of others, and think about how to be polite, respectful, and not disturbing to others.
Highlight "model education"
Role model education plays an irreplaceable role in the process of human socialization, because human growth begins in constant observation and imitation. Mr. Yang Jiang once said: "Good education, role models are very important." Models give people behavioral reference, inspiration and value guidance. Setting a correct example in the hearts of young people is a good education. Over the past 40 years of reform and opening up, we have set many correct examples and brought many positive effects to society. In the new historical period, we should be closer to the personality development needs of young people in terms of the quality and value orientation of the example. For them, "be able to imitate, be around, be close to, and be able to feel" is a very important example to establish standards and principles. It is recommended that families, schools and society can discuss and share the following topics.
Who is the role model? People like Academician Zhong Nanshan and Academician Li Lanjuan are going forward with heavy burdens, like the light of life, illuminating our way to overcome the epidemic. They are definitely well-deserved role models for young people. Academician Li Lanjuan said: "After the epidemic is over, I hope that the country will establish a correct life orientation for the younger generation and leave high salaries to scientific researchers and military personnel with both ability and political integrity..." In such a historical period, there are too many role models It is worthy of the respect and promotion of the younger generation. Those policemen who stick to the front line of epidemic prevention and control, journalists who go to the epidemic area to interview, the ordinary couriers who insist on dispatching in the heavy snow, and the volunteers who provide emergency services to the epidemic area to ensure the operation of public transportation. Bus drivers, workers who work overtime to produce medical supplies, and unsung heroes from all walks of life... They are all "the most beautiful retrogrades." Guide young people to think about who is the true backbone of the country? What are the ordinary and vivid role models around? People who go to the front line in times of social crisis and rush to the front line to face problems and solve problems are the best presentation and spiritual support of the core values ??of socialism, and they are also the most important role models for our younger generation to admire and imitate.
What qualities should a role model possess? Only when education merges with spirit will there be more nutrients. When young people can understand the most basic quality of a role model, that is, in addition to doing their own things, they must also take social responsibilities for others. Gradually, in the real life experience, they will naturally start to think about what other qualities besides these are also worth learning. When they have this kind of thinking, they will observe what kind of people can become their own role models as they grow up, and they will naturally avoid those who do not meet such qualities as role models. This is the seed that education has planted in their hearts.
