Loosening the soil on the border, controlling the distance between plants, and planting seedlings in plug trays...Recently, Song Liyi, a student majoring in horticulture at Jinhua Vocational and Technical College, sowed rapeseed in the school's experimental farmland.

"I look forward to every labor education class. It is very interesting to farm in the fields." Song Liyi excitedly told reporters how the students completed the farming tasks of weeding, turning the soil, digging ditches, and fertilizing.

  In March 2020, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Opinions on Comprehensively Strengthening Labor Education in Colleges and Primary Schools in the New Era" (hereinafter referred to as "Opinions"), proposing to "closely integrate economic and social development and changes with the actual life of students, and actively explore the Unique labor education model, innovative systems and mechanisms, focusing on educational effectiveness, realizing the unity of knowledge and action, and promoting students to form a correct world outlook, outlook on life, and values.”

  This is a new challenge for vocational education that is employment-oriented and service-oriented.

Recently, reporters from China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily interviewed a number of vocational colleges and learned that these colleges have fully tapped the labor elements in professional courses to fully cover daily labor, production labor, and service labor. Students find it interesting and meaningful.

Mining the Labor Elements in the Profession

  When he was a freshman, Luo Guangping, who majored in food intelligent processing technology at Zunyi Vocational and Technical College, felt that the labor education class was just cleaning, which was "meaningless."

In the process of weeding and cleaning the campus, the teachers of the school will lead the students to identify weeds, and require the students to use weeding tools proficiently. After the end of the semester, they will know at least 20 kinds of weeds.

  Luo Guangping gradually got to know many common weeds, and also understood the value and efficacy of these weeds.

Luo Guangping, who is in his sophomore year, changed his initial opinion. "The labor education class is very meaningful. Not only did I learn practical knowledge, but also the students exchanged and collaborated to work together, and the relationship between everyone became closer."

  "Students from the city have never used a hoe, and they don't know any kind of weeds." said Chen Liangwan, director of the Ideological and Political Education Department of Zunyi Vocational and Technical College, who designed "Social Labor - Campus Greening and Loosening Weeds and Weed Labor Classes" , On the one hand, I want to improve students' labor skills, and on the other hand, I want students to obtain the most practical and life-like knowledge in labor. "This course was also rated as one of the 100 excellent teaching cases of labor education in Guizhou Province."

  There are more than 10 acres of fields on the campus of Baotou Light Industry Vocational and Technical College, which is the labor base for students majoring in wine production technology in the Department of Food Biology and Testing.

In the new semester, each student of this major will be allocated a small field of responsibility, and the students will complete the grape planting in the specified area in groups, and there will be an exhibition of the planting results at the end of the semester.

  Students from the Department of Education and the non-heritage inheritance of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region learned dough sculptures, students from the Department of Dairy Farming and Animal Husbandry Engineering made ice cream, and students from the Department of Food Biology and Testing made cakes... Baotou Light Industry Vocational and Technical College played the role of the main classroom and fully explored professional courses The labor element in the training course strengthens the labor experience in the practical training course.

  "Find out the students' points of interest and excitement, and make labor education interesting. It can not only attract students' attention, but also attract students' hearts. The labor education class can also achieve good educational effects." Baotou Light Industry Vocational Technology Chen Fang, Director of the Voluntary Service Guidance Center of the college, introduced that in April 2020, the school started the construction of labor education courses, established a labor education teaching and research section, and carried out teaching, courses, teachers, teaching materials, practice base construction, and theoretical research. Education is fully integrated into the talent training program.

  In the suburbs 8 kilometers away from Jinhua Vocational and Technical College, there is an experimental farmland of 541 mu, which is the practical education base for the students of the College of Agriculture.

Yao Gang, a teacher of horticulture at the Agricultural College of Jinhua Vocational and Technical College, introduced that the base not only has modern greenhouses and ponds, but also teaching aids and smart classrooms. It has also become a paradise for agricultural college students to carry out labor education.

  Turning 6 acres of wasteland into fertile soil gave Song Liyi a sense of accomplishment. Witnessing the cultivation process of sunshine roses and red beauty citrus with his own eyes made Song Liyi feel "very novel and interesting".

In the process of reclaiming wasteland, Song Liyi discovered that digging the soil and digging ditches, which seemed simple, also paid attention to skills and methods.

The teacher assigns tasks, and Song Liyi and the team members work together to find a way, divide labor and cooperate, and overcome one challenge after another. "Now that the sowing is over, I often think about whether the rapeseed I planted is growing well."

  Xie Qingyong, dean of the Agricultural College of Jinhua Vocational and Technical College, said that in the current booming modern agriculture, "we still allow students to experience traditional farming methods, intending to enable students to inherit the spiritual quality of practicing the school's motto of 'working hard from labor'".

Integrate labor awareness into daily life

  At the moment of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Baotou Light Industry Vocational and Technical College adopts a combination of online and offline teaching methods.

It is understood that returning students can help their parents with housework and farm work, and can also participate in voluntary service activities. By shooting short videos and writing labor diaries, they can complete labor education practice courses to earn credits.

  He Ziwei, who lives in Kailu County, Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia, has 17 cattle at home.

In the cold winter of minus 20 degrees Celsius, just after dawn, He Ziwei got up and went to the cowshed, shoveling a cart full of grass with one shovel after another.

He Ziwei first cleaned up the sundries in the cow trough, and then added grass to feed the cows a little bit, "Don't add too much grass at a time, otherwise the cows will push the grass outside the trough."

  Some grow potatoes, feed sheep, cook for their parents, and help with housework. Jiang Feng, a counselor at Baotou Light Industry Vocational and Technical College, said that some students found out about their parents after cooking a meal for their parents in a hurry. Not easy, "The purpose of carrying out labor education is not to let students work, but to let students learn to be grateful and respect the fruits of labor of others."

  If you walk into the student dormitory of Baotou Light Industry Vocational and Technical College, you can see that every dormitory has been cleaned. Washbasins, toothbrushes, and towels are arranged in a line, and the toothbrush heads even face the same direction.

Behind this is that the school adopts the model of "labor education theory + post labor training + social service activities" to carry out labor education, which fully covers daily labor, production labor, and service labor, and implements the "2+1+X" course credit assessment.

  Zunyi Vocational and Technical College incorporates labor education into the whole process of the college's talent training, which runs through families, schools, and all aspects of society, and integrates with moral, intellectual, physical, and aesthetic education.

Taking curriculum education as the main position, taking practical education as the basic way, closely combining the reality of the school and students, focusing on the actual effect of education, and realizing the unity of knowledge and action.

  "Strengthening labor education is the mission given to vocational education in the new era." Jiang Dayuan, a researcher at the Institute of Vocational and Technical Education Center of the Ministry of Education, said that the new requirements put forward by the "Opinions" for labor education in the new era are different from ordinary education but based on employment. It must be a new challenge for vocational education, which is another type of education oriented and service-oriented: emphasizing the cultivation of labor spirit with equal emphasis on "quality and quantity", establishing an open and sharing mechanism of "internal and external" coordination, focusing on The development of labor literacy that combines "knowledge and action" requires the reform and innovation of supporting courses, teaching materials, teaching methods, and teacher training, as well as new thinking, new measures, and new paths.

  China Youth Daily·China Youth Daily reporter Shi Jia Source: China Youth Daily