Introduction to Education Paper

Introduction to Education Paper

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Summary

Health is the most basic requirement of human beings and one of the most important social goals. However, people’s understanding of what health is is not entirely consistent. In many people's minds, when it comes to health, they understand it as being free from disease and in good health. This simple view of physical health is very one-sided and ignores the importance of mental health. In early childhood health education, emphasis is placed on physical health education and there is a lack of content on children's mental health education. This tendency is not conducive to the all-round development of children's physical and mental health. Therefore, how to overcome the one-sidedness of the traditional view of health, establish a correct concept of health, and completely separate health into the management scope of health care work is an important issue that needs to be solved in our current work.

Keywords: Comprehensive health with equal emphasis on body and mind

Overview

With the development of the economy and the improvement of people's living standards, mental health problems have increasingly attracted the attention of the whole society. . Paying attention to personal mental health has become an important symbol of modern civilized people. Anyone with a sense of civilization knows that for normal people, the level of mental health is not only related to the individual's quality of life, but also directly affects their labor efficiency and contribution to society. If a person suffers from mental and psychological diseases, he will become a burden on society. Every parent in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad, hopes that their children can grow up healthily. Parents who are concerned about whether their children will have the ability to survive in society when they grow up must pay attention to their children's mental health. When it comes to the development of young children’s mental health, I have to talk about what I think the meaning of mental health is.

1: The meaning of young children’s mental health

When talking about the definition of young children’s mental health, we cannot avoid the concept of mental health.

What exactly is considered mental health? Mental health generally refers to a state of mind in which a person has normal intelligence, good mood, sound personality, can adapt to the environment, coordinates interpersonal relationships, and has psychological behavior that conforms to age characteristics. Specifically, it mainly includes the following aspects:

① Have a correct understanding and objective evaluation of yourself. Mentally healthy people have a realistic and correct understanding of their own strengths, weaknesses, and personality traits. Know what you can do and what you are suitable for; you will not be too demanding on yourself for things you cannot do.

② Have self-confidence and self-reliance and the psychological motivation for self-development. Mentally healthy people generally have clear life goals and a drive for self-development. Therefore, you can adjust and control your emotions in the face of difficulties and adversity, calmly treat and handle various complex problems, and keep moving forward.

③ Ability to get along well with others and good at coordinating interpersonal relationships. Mentally healthy people can adopt an attitude of getting along with each other, being friendly and self-restraint towards others and things; they can handle problems and conflicts that arise in interpersonal relationships in a friendly, tolerant, fair, reasonable and measured manner. , easy to cooperate and get along with others.

④ Actively adapt to the environment and comply with social needs. Mentally healthy people can consciously adjust the relationship between the individual and the environment. They do not adapt the environment to themselves, but adapt themselves to the environment. In any complex environment, on the one hand, you must maintain your own personality and personality; on the other hand, you must have the ability to maximize your strengths, avoid weaknesses, and adapt to the needs of the environment. Whether in difficult adversity or in a smooth environment, you can perform well Develop yourself well.

It is difficult to use a unified standard to judge whether a person is mentally healthy. Therefore, most scholars believe that the adaptation of the entire behavior should be used as the benchmark, rather than overemphasis on the presence or absence of individual symptoms. Understanding the basic connotation of mental health can help you judge your own mental health status and take corresponding mental health care measures to achieve comprehensive physical and mental health.

2: Analysis of children’s mental health

Children’s psychological education is “child-centered”, that is, children are cared for as people with equal personality as adults. Teachers are caring While caring for children, never lose "respect" and "equality", these two contemporary humanistic consciousnesses. Teachers not only squat down to communicate with children, but also truly put down the airs of adults and communicate with children attentively. Although the child is young, he can fully feel the "motherly love" care from the teacher. Only in this way can the child grow up healthily under the teacher's tender care.

Three: How to pay attention to the mental health of children

The mental health of children is a necessary condition for the perfection of their personality and the inner foundation of their spirit and development. With mental health, young children are likely to develop fully. On the contrary, if there is a lack of mental health, the child's development will be restricted, and personality disorders or mental illnesses may occur in his or her future development. Currently, there are varying degrees of mental health problems among young children. Mainly manifested in two aspects: first, low frustration tolerance, unable to withstand bumps and bumps, and will cry and lose temper if something goes wrong. Second, lack of ability to interact with others and cope with interpersonal events. For most children, everything in the family is centered on them, but in the group they have to take into account the preferences and opinions of other peers. The increase in the number of only children makes more and more children have less contact with the outside world. Opportunities lead to confusion in interpersonal relationships. As Chinese psychologist Professor Ding Zan said: "The most important thing in human psychological education is the adaptation to interpersonal communication. Therefore, human psychological pathology is mainly due to interpersonal relationships." . Therefore, as preschool teachers, we should pay more attention to children’s mental health education.

Four: Mental health education should start from an early age

With the development of the economy and the improvement of people's living standards, mental health problems have increasingly attracted the attention of the whole society. Paying attention to personal mental health has become an important symbol of modern civilized people. Anyone with a sense of civilization knows that for normal people, the level of mental health is not only related to the individual's quality of life, but also directly affects their labor efficiency and contribution to society. If a person suffers from mental and psychological diseases, he will become a burden on society. Every parent in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad, hopes that their children can grow up healthily. Parents who are concerned about whether their children will have the ability to survive in society when they grow up must pay attention to their children's mental health. What characteristics does a mentally healthy child have? We believe that it should at least include the following five:

(1) Have normal intelligence and a desire for knowledge;

(2) ) Ability to gradually learn to regulate one's emotions and maintain an optimistic mood;

(3) Ability to learn to interact normally with people around you, know how to share and cooperate, respect others, and be willing to help others;

< p>(4) Be able to accept yourself, have self-control, actively face problems and difficulties encountered in life, and adapt to the environment;

(5) Have good behavioral habits and a sound personality. Introduction to Education Paper 2

These five items are not formed overnight, but rely on the cultivation of adults. How to cultivate them? We should not forget the characteristics of children’s physical and mental development and changes. Mental health education should permeate family life. All aspects of education permeate into the entire process of school education, putting forward different requirements for children of different ages, taking "learning to recognize, learning to live together, learning to do things, and learning to survive" as the key to lifelong education for children. By setting goals, bit by bit, and persevering, we will surely be able to train our children to become pillars of society that can adapt to the social life of the new century.

As for the problems of mental health education in today’s society, I have summarized the following points:

1. There is insufficient attention and insufficient understanding of children’s mental health education

As early as 1977, the World Health Organization proposed that health "should be a complete state of physical, psychological, and social adaptation" and regarded the two important contents of psychological and social adaptation as the basic elements of health. However, in quite a few kindergartens, the current understanding of health still remains at the level of the bio-medical model, and has not yet realized the transformation to the new model of bio-psycho-social medicine. Therefore, there is an obvious emphasis on physical health care. The phenomenon of neglecting mental health care.

The main reason for this insufficient attention to children's mental health education is that there is a general lack of knowledge about children's mental health, a vague understanding of the relationship between children's mind and body, and a failure to recognize the importance of children's mental health. Many people regard some abnormal psychological manifestations of young children as natural phenomena in children's growth and do not pay attention to them.

2. Early childhood mental health education has not yet formed a complete theoretical system and lacks strict systematization

Early childhood mental health education has not yet formed its own complete theoretical system, which is mainly reflected in the following aspects: Aspects:

First, so far, apart from a small number of books on children’s mental health, behavioral and emotional problems, there are no monographs on children’s mental health education in the country; second, there are only a few books on children’s mental health education in the country. Among the few colleges and universities that offer preschool education majors, very few offer courses in early childhood mental health education; thirdly, neither colleges nor preschool teachers have a national textbook on early childhood mental health; fourthly, despite the " The "Kindergarten Work Regulations" proposes that children's mental health care should be done well, but the content is scattered and messy, and most of it is reflected in other contents, such as cultivating children's lively and cheerful personalities, guiding the healthy development of children's personalities, etc. There is no internal connection system and unified concept between these contents, and there are many contents related to children's mental health and education that have not been included in education or have not attracted the attention of educators. This leads to the fact that when we implement mental health education for young children, most of us can only draw on the theories and experiences of other adjacent disciplines or primary and secondary school and adult mental health education, and the integration is not enough.

3. The separation of theory and practice

In recent years, an increasing number of kindergartens have focused on children’s mental health education, and they have accumulated a lot of useful experience in practice; and many colleges and universities have Teachers have also begun to pay attention to the research on children's mental health education, and research results on children's mental health education are increasing day by day. However, there is a more prominent issue that deserves attention, and that is the separation between theory and practice. On the one hand, scientific researchers engaged in early childhood health education in colleges and universities are less likely to go deep into kindergartens to provide guidance, and they are less likely to establish several points for long-term experiments; on the other hand, when kindergartens carry out this work, they can only They stay in the understanding of superficial phenomena and cannot understand the essence from the phenomena. Therefore, in many cases, the final result of their work can only be a summary of experience, but it is difficult to develop it deeper and the theme is difficult to deepen. , hindering the in-depth progress of children's mental health education.

4. Teachers lack professional knowledge in early childhood mental health education

The implementation of educational activities depends to a large extent on the quality of the educator himself, the structure and richness of professional knowledge degree. However, in the long-established early childhood teacher education system, knowledge updates have not yet fully caught up with the development of the situation, which directly leads to the lack of professional knowledge in mental health education among kindergarten teachers. Solid knowledge of early childhood mental health education is the prerequisite for early childhood mental health education. At the same time, how to grasp the relationship between early childhood mental health education and early childhood scientific education and pay attention to the integration of educational content also affects the implementation of early childhood mental health education. Nowadays, many problems that arise in the work of mental health education in kindergartens are closely related to this.

5. Unscientific nature of specific operations

1. Problems that violate the principles of mental health education. For example, aggressive behavior in young children is a conduct disorder. To correct and educate this type of behavior, positive education should be adhered to, setting an example, or methods of temporary isolation and reducing stimulation should be adopted. However, when dealing with this type of children, some kindergarten teachers use cathartic methods to correct them, providing them with beating objects to let them vent their angry emotions. Research shows that young children learn more aggressive skills after venting, which can lead to stronger aggressive tendencies. Therefore, using catharsis method violates the principles of mental health education. Some teachers even use corporal punishment when dealing with such children, which further strengthens children's aggressive behavior, because corporal punishment itself serves as a model for children's aggressive behavior.

2. The problem of out-of-sync home education. Implementing mental health education for children in kindergartens is a good thing that is beneficial to children's physical and mental health. However, if close cooperation with parents is not paid attention to during implementation, the kindergarten's efforts may be in vain.

A certain kindergarten has been insisting on cultivating children's social communication skills for several years, with the purpose of allowing children to learn to communicate, share and cooperate with others and improve their social adaptability. However, in specific operations, they neglected the contact and cooperation with the family, and some families have always adopted a doting and laissez-faire education method for their children. As a result, the conflict between what is taught in the kindergarten and what is taught at home has led to the failure of education to receive its due response. Some effects.

3. Cannot distinguish between psychological issues and moral issues. Lying is relatively common among some young children. The reasons why young children lie are, on the one hand, due to their low level of cognitive development, and they lie when their thinking, memory, imagination, judgment, etc. are inconsistent with the facts; on the other hand, they are because they are afraid that they will do something wrong. Being punished, or due to teachers or parents being too strict with children. Therefore, we should comprehensively analyze the lying problem of young children and treat it differently. If it is caused by low cognitive level, it is a problem in the process of psychological development. If it is caused by too strict requirements, it is an educational problem. However, these are essentially different from lying in adulthood, and there is no moral fault. Morality. In some kindergartens, it is not uncommon to reprimand children for having bad moral character when behaviors such as stealing and lying occur, and to confuse psychological problems with moral problems.

4. The problem of adultization of mental health education. Since children's mental health education has not yet formed its own theoretical system, some kindergartens often draw on the experience and models of primary and secondary schools and even adult mental health education when implementing mental health education for children. This has led to the neglect of young children's actual receptive abilities in the education process. For example, when providing psychological correction to some children with behavioral problems, some kindergarten teachers simply copy some behavioral treatment methods without considering the negative impact this method will have on the children. As a result, the behavioral problems are not solved. Correction, new adaptation problems emerged.

In fact, as an integral part of the systematic project of early childhood quality education, early childhood mental health education still has many problems that need to be solved. Here, we are just analyzing some important issues in early childhood mental health education. The solutions to these problems rely on the establishment and improvement of the mental health education model on the one hand. On the other hand, they require kindergartens, families, and society. Joint efforts in all aspects. Paying attention to the mental health of young children is not a trivial matter, but a major matter related to the future of our nation. In this regard, we must devote ourselves to it with the spirit and mind of "you are as young as we are young as we are young", so that all our children can grow up healthily and happily under the sunshine of care and love from the whole society, and become physical and mental adults in the future. Qualified healthy children.

Conclusion

Times are developing, education is reforming, and children are growing. Adhering to mental health education is a symbol of modern moral education and the key to improving the overall quality of young children. It is an urgent and important issue facing every teacher. As the saying goes, "It is better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish." We cannot give children the knowledge and skills to cope with a lifetime, but the ability to learn and independent thinking, the ability to practice, the passion and spirit of exploring new knowledge and creation, good moral character and Habits are the precious wealth we should give our children. As a teacher, you should use love to light up the "light" in every child's heart and raise the sail for progress. As long as everyone pays attention to the growth process of children and the core issue of "everything is for the development of every child" can be realized, then the flower of education will bloom more and more beautifully. ;