To stop waste on campus, where does the school's "hand" reach
【The teacher said】
From the perspective of education, it is necessary to take into account both educational methods and moderate market methods, avoid establishing a high-stakes relationship between campus waste and student physical and mental development, and avoid labeling students because of campus waste——
The campus is an important symbol of the level of civilization in the development of the society, and it should be at the forefront of the action of "strict economy and oppose waste".
However, judging from the reality, there is a relatively prominent waste phenomenon on campus.
Behind the phenomenon, there are not only the staged problems caused by social development, the lack of family education, but also the deviation of the school education center. It should cause educators to worry about why wasteful behaviors on campus are repeatedly prohibited. what?
The dilemma of campus waste
The campus waste has been repeatedly banned, and there are many difficulties behind it, which are mainly manifested in the following aspects:
Dilemma 1:
At the social level, it is manifested in the impact of indifferent ideas on living materials brought about by social transformation and development.
With the rapid development of my country's social economy and the increasing improvement of people's material living standards, the material life needs have been greatly satisfied.
The prosperous material life for a long period of time will inevitably lead to the neglect of food and other daily necessities, leading to the diminished consciousness of conservation and the idea of cherishing food.
Dilemma 2:
At the level of educational subjects, it is difficult for many subjects of education to form effective synergy.
Since the main body of educating students involves family, society and peers, and these main bodies are often restricted by conditions such as ideological concepts, time and space dispersion, etc., it is difficult to form a joint force in education.
For example, if the good habit of saving in school cannot be maintained and consolidated in the family, it will quickly rebound and even be transmitted to the school.
Therefore, it is difficult to eliminate the phenomenon of campus waste from the root cause only by the education of a single subject in the school.
Dilemma 3:
At the school level, it is manifested in the deviation of educational thinking and methods.
Due to the extreme particularity of the educational objects, any method of education and teaching must undergo strict self-examination before it can be implemented.
In fact, some schools have shown obvious deviations in the way of education. Not only did they lose their education, they also produced externalities.
For example, in order to reduce waste, some schools punish students for waste by making questions and singing meal songs before meals.
This kind of education method is not only useless, but may cause students' rebellious psychology.
Dilemma 4:
At the individual level of students, it is difficult to reconcile the contradiction between the school collective life and the individual lifestyle needs of the students.
As students grow up in different family environments, they have different habits and requirements in life and other aspects.
However, in the collective life of the school, it is difficult to take into account the individual needs of each individual.
Is there a "solution" to campus waste?
In the face of the above dilemma, what can a school do?
First, value and respect the individual needs of students.
Take the dining waste in campus waste as an example, which is mainly caused by the contradiction between the unified meal supply system in the canteen and the individualized needs of students' diet.
At present, students have higher requirements for food quality, taste, side dishes, etc., and the school canteen currently does not have the ability to provide personalized food. In other words, the school cannot meet the students' increasingly abundant food needs, resulting in serious food waste.
According to the survey, many students hope to bring meals from home. After careful consideration and scientific demonstration, the school allows some students to bring meals from home to the school on the same day. The school provides heating and disinfection equipment and corresponding testing equipment for each class.
In this way, the phenomenon of food waste has been curbed to a large extent.
Second, seize the educational opportunity and mobilize students to carry out project-based learning.
Campus waste is a real problem of complexity.
The school uses this as an opportunity to carry out project-based learning and education.
For example, in response to the phenomenon of excessive external packaging of online shopping products, students used it as a project-based learning to develop the campus express box recycling reBox project and promote it in the community, which achieved very good social benefits.
Finally, let students educate themselves and face the waste on campus.
With the help of the Beijing Municipal Waste Sorting Action, our school initiated a school waste sorting activity.
Students went to the campus to waste the scene and proposed many solutions, such as small bowls of dishes, half dishes, direct access to the class with water and electricity quota, green use of teaching materials, green delivery of school uniforms, and rice ration equipment.
In addition, students set up a project for every waste phenomenon on campus. The school adopts methods such as project bidding, expert demonstration, effect calculation, feedback tracking, etc., and credits for moral education are counted for project members with excellent savings. The person in charge of campus conservation, instead of putting them in a passive response state, so as to touch them from the heart and educate themselves.
The phenomenon of campus waste is essentially caused by the lack of school life education.
For a long time, the education and teaching of primary and secondary schools has focused on subject teaching and knowledge transfer, while the students' life education has been biased, resulting in deviations in the life education of students, and the phenomenon of campus waste is inevitable.
For this reason, it is necessary to further strengthen the life education and labor education of students, so as to continuously improve students' awareness of saving and avoid waste.
From the educational point of view, it is necessary to take into account both educational methods and moderate market methods, avoid establishing a high-stakes relationship between campus waste and student physical and mental development, and avoid labeling students because of campus waste.
Only when students are truly touched in their hearts, education will have a good effect.
(Author: Yu Zhi, the Department of Beijing senior secondary school teachers)