The importance of class culture

It is very important for a class to have a good collective culture, which will make the whole class radiate vitality. So let’s learn about the importance of class culture.

The importance of class culture

Over the past few years, people have become very familiar with campus culture. From not paying attention to paying attention, from rational understanding to practical operation, we are deepening step by step. Educators increasingly realize that campus culture and the work of class teachers are inseparable. Class teachers pay more and more attention to the use of cultural vision, concepts, means and methods to manage class groups, in order to strive to cultivate a new generation of builders and successors with complete personalities and sound personalities facing the 21st century. However, many educators are unfamiliar with the concept of class culture. In fact, class culture and campus culture are inseparable. A colorful, diverse class culture full of personality, lively and distinctive personality development, a strong, pure, energetic, and fantasy-filled environment are the key to the construction of teacher campus culture. The fundamentals.

Therefore, in this sense, class culture can be said to be an extremely important part of campus culture. Class culture is an influential activity in which the class teacher uses and creates the spiritual atmosphere, cultural system, cultural relations, cultural environment, etc. of the class to edify and cultivate students' cultural personality.

Here we regard the cultivation and development of students as an agricultural production process like the growth of seedlings. In other words, the personality of students is the soil, rain, dew, sunshine, air and the hard work of the cultivators. The result of a combination of factors. Especially primary school students, who are in the immature stage of spiritual development, are very susceptible to the induction and influence of external factors. Their personality development is directly related to the influence, guidance and choice of class culture, and this effect is potential. The long-term, rather than immediately visible, impact is a deep-seated impact that may be a lifelong benefit or a lifelong regret. Therefore, only by using noble personality, thoughts, and emotions to influence, educate, and educate can the class teacher achieve effective results.

The development trend of the 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, humanistic and other qualities, and cultivate The national character and good personality psychological quality of the 21st century should be cultivated to cultivate new people with all-round development qualities of kindness, truth, courage and beauty in the 21st century. This is a glorious but arduous cross-century historical task that schools face in the modernization process of basic education.

Cultivating talents with modern qualities, especially the cultivation of patriotism and service to the country, and the cultivation of emotions and aspirations, must start from primary school students. This is a strategic issue. The true goal of class culture and campus culture construction is not only a beautiful school environment and lively and numerous student activities, but the most important thing should be the improvement of the quality of people cultivated by class style, class training, etc.

For a long time, under the influence of the baton of exam-oriented education, class culture and campus culture have manifested themselves as a restrictive and normative cultural trait. It ignores the personality development of students, thus forming a situation where students have no academic expertise and There are consequences such as lack of interest in learning, high scores and low ability, and low basic civilized quality. Therefore, in today's implementation of quality education, strengthening the construction of class culture has a long way to go. We will make some explorations on the topic of "class culture and student quality development". At the same time, we use this topic as an opportunity to change the educational thinking of our school's faculty and staff, explore new methods, pay attention to new arts, establish a new image, create a new situation in the work of class teachers, and make our education more adaptable to the innovative development of the 21st century. .

To this end, our school (Humiao Experimental Primary School) proposed the above topic.

2. Definition of the connotation of the subject content

Class culture is the class teacher’s use and creation of the spiritual atmosphere, cultural system, cultural relations, cultural environment, etc. of the class to edify and cultivate students’ cultural personality. influence activities.

This is not a rigid, rough, and didactic education model, but a comprehensive existence of spirit, system, relationship, and environment that is full of flexibility, gentleness, and affection.

The spiritual atmosphere is the spiritual power where students, teachers and class are integrated, united, affectionate, full of personality and vitality. The cultural system refers to the formal and socially dominant cultural values ??required by the school, especially how to creatively propose the "three chapters of the law", commitments and responsibility.

Cultural relationship refers to the cordial, civilized and equal relationship established between teachers and students, and between students. It is fully demonstrated through class style, class atmosphere, interpersonal relationships, etc. It is not political Relationship is not an economic relationship, but an inseparable interactive relationship of inheritance, harmony, affection and spirit.

Cultural environment refers to the creative activities and states that reflect the will, emotions, preferences, aesthetic tastes and personality tastes of teachers and students in the class. This 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 with their own power.

Class culture in primary schools is closely related to children’s culture, and its main characteristics are: childlikeness, imagination, openness and fun. Specifically, it has the following three functions:

1. Improve students’ moral quality

Class cultural activities can cooperate with classroom teaching, provide students with ideological education, and have obvious behavior-oriented functions. . For example, through various interest groups, cultural and sports activities, class reports, etc., moral education is integrated into various activities, thereby establishing the behaviors required by the class and letting students know what the class and school advocate, what they oppose, and what they should do. , what can't be done. Through its own appeal, class culture affects behavioral norms, ideological and moral concepts, and lifestyle choices, allowing students to receive information and gain insights and enlightenment in a subconscious state.

2. Develop students’ intellectual potential

Primary school students have strong energy and strong curiosity, and classroom teaching often cannot meet their needs for knowledge. The class carries out a variety of colorful themed class meetings, intellectual games and other educational and cultural activities, which enable them to acquire a lot of extracurricular knowledge and exercise various abilities. Class culture can arouse and stimulate students' interest in learning and living, form a good atmosphere that encourages people to be proactive, and is conducive to the development of students' intelligence.

3. Improve the physical and mental health of students

Our children grow up in an Eastern country that likes tranquility. Being quiet but not active, rigid and less lively are the character weaknesses of many primary school students. Modern people need to exercise more, know how to work, know how to entertain, and be efficient. Carrying out class sports activities, cultural and entertainment activities, etc., to educate and entertain, can keep students in a happy mood, improve aesthetics and future life interests, and also enrich Imagine, beautify the mind, enhance physical fitness and promote the healthy physical and mental development of students.

From the above meaning, structure and function of class culture, class culture is a kind of regular knowledge, including some opinions, methods of doing things, beliefs, values ??and experiences, which is in the daily life of the group. A gradually formed, unique, part that is taken for granted.

3. Research content (sub-topics) and research points

Based on the connotation of class culture construction and the actual situation of the school, we decompose the research into the following research contents (sub-topics) Topics): 1. Research on the goals 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.

Through multiple rounds of discussions, we determined the focus of each sub-topic research as follows:

1. Research on the goals of class culture construction

The goals of class culture construction , is to shape the cultural personality of students, that is, to pay attention to learning to use culture and other means to cultivate students into a high-quality cultural personality with ideals, ethics, discipline, ability, understanding of cooperation, creativity, and healthy personality development. The construction and cultivation of cultural personality is the ideal and scientific pursuit of educators. It has a deeper and richer connotation than the single and narrow concepts of character and personality in biology, psychology, and ethics, and has more implications for educational practice. Guidance value. This requires educators to learn to look at student development from a cultural perspective, and to construct cultural personality starting from primary school class culture, and at the same time change their concepts from a knowledge-based education perspective to a personality-based education perspective.

2. Research on the construction of class cultural environment

The class cultural environment includes two parts: the material cultural environment and the class spiritual cultural environment. The class cultural environment is an important part of the class culture. To establish a distinctive class cultural environment, the class teacher needs to devote his wholehearted love to the class collective and students, needs to carry out hard and meticulous work, needs to cultivate and carry forward the fine traditions of the class collective, and needs to work with class cadres and students to work together. Carefully planned and constructed.

The elegant, vivid and vivid class material culture has a subtle educational influence and appeal on primary school students. Based on the good educational equipment provided by the school to the class, the class teacher conducts education for the whole class and the classroom. Carefully packaged, so that every wall and corner of the classroom has educational content and is full of educational significance. In Suhomlinski’s words, whether we plant flowers and trees, hang famous quotes, picture slogans, or use wall posters, we must make in-depth planning from an aesthetic perspective in order to tap into its subtle educational function, and ultimately even the school The walls are also "speaking". We mainly carry out research from several aspects such as arranging classrooms, running class reports, building book corners, and running innovative homework walls.

Class spiritual culture is the soul of class culture, which is expressed as the class style and class motto of a class collective. It can also be reflected through class emblems, class songs, class flags, class flowers, class colors, etc. These cultural creation activities and cultural education methods have not received due attention for a long time. Many schools, even if they exist, are the same. For this reason, we have learned from the experience of campus culture and class culture construction, and based on reality, let students be proactive. Participate fully, give full play to the strengths and characteristics of children's thinking and character, and encourage them to actively create and strive to be the masters.

3. Research on the construction of class culture system

The system is a kind of culture, which plays an important cultural and value-oriented role. The system construction in the class is indispensable for the construction of class culture. Cultural resources are to create a unique cultural environment for children's personality growth.

The class system construction has rich cultural content, which is reflected in all aspects of primary school students' school life. It is the basic criterion for regulating students' school life with the binding force of the system. In terms of its characteristics, it is mainly divided into two major aspects: formal system and informal system. Generally speaking, the formal system is formulated by the school and is a "preset" system. It mainly regulates and restricts the most basic aspects of students' learning and life, such as work and rest system, examination system, etc. The formal system is generally regarded as a rigid system, and its behavioral norms are often external and basic. The informal system is a code of conduct created by the class teacher based on the requirements of the formal system and through independent thinking by the class teacher. The informal system can generally be regarded as a soft system. It does not restrict students through external norms, but plays a constructive educational function through active advocacy. Its content is often more flexible and richer than the formal system. .

4. Research on the construction of class cultural relations

Teachers and students are the eternal themes of educational activities. From ancient educators to today’s researchers, they can never be discussed apart from teachers and students. Educational issues.

In the education process, the relationship between teachers and students is the main content of the construction of school and class culture. Because the nature of the teacher-student relationship is the fundamental factor that affects and determines the class cultural relationship, and focusing on teacher power and emphasizing teacher authority is an important feature of our country's school culture, changing the traditional school culture and building a new teacher-student relationship will It is the main task of class culture construction. Establishing an equal and harmonious teacher-student relationship is the central issue of class cultural relationship construction. This is a brave practice for us to challenge and transform the traditional teacher-student relationship that has existed for thousands of years. We must make The undue authority of teachers disappears from our schools and the rights and freedoms of students must be returned to students. This is the responsibility and obligation of teachers of our generation, and it is also the educational belief that we should establish. How can we achieve this goal? Mastering the scientific strategies and principles of teacher-student interaction and changing the old ideas given to us by traditional culture are the keys to achieving this goal.

IV. The main results of the project research

Through the unremitting efforts of all researchers, the project research has achieved certain results, mainly reflected in the formation of a "Class Culture" of about 50,000 words. and Student Quality Development", most of which have been published in relevant journals, and have initially explored an education model with universal promotion value. Several special papers have been published in national, provincial and municipal educational newspapers. Many teachers from our school have participated in special seminars in institutions and schools across the country, and won first prizes for their paper exchanges.

In recent years, with the care and strong support of leaders at all levels of the province, city and county, our school has become one of the advanced schools in the county that has realized educational modernization. The school has been rated as "National Reading Excellent Group" in Jiangsu Provincial Young Pioneers Merit Brigade? Nantong City Model School? Nantong City Civilized Unit? Nantong City Young Pioneers Advanced Collective? Rudong County Art Education Advanced Unit? Rudong County Youth Civilization Number?, and has been rated as "Garden Unit" for many consecutive years.

In recent years, the drum and bugle troupe of primary school students in our school represented Rudong County in the performance of the Third Youth Congress of Nantong City and was rated as the "Best Drum and Bugle Team in Nantong City". Won the first prize in the county drum and bugle team competition in June this year. The school's self-rehearsed entertainment programs have participated in superior performances more than ten times, and have won grade awards. Our school's art education activities have promoted the development of students' quality in all aspects and achieved gratifying results. Among them, the reading activity group was commended by the Youth League Central Committee, the computer group has had more than 50 people win awards at the county level and above, and the science and technology group has produced 100 Many specimens were sent to the city for exhibitions. The school's table tennis and basketball have won many awards in city and county competitions. Many students were sent to city and county junior sports schools for training.

During the research process, the majority of teachers knew that in order to develop students’ quality, schools must attach great importance to the construction of class culture. This is because:

1. Class culture can improve students’ quality. Development creates a good atmosphere. For example, organizing students to write their own tabloids, design blackboard newspapers, write and act in textbook plays, collect famous quotes, etc. can broaden students' knowledge horizons, enhance students' sense of ownership, develop students' imagination, thinking, and creativity, and improve students' The ability to distinguish right from wrong and aesthetic ability.

2. Class culture can play a guiding role in the healthy growth of students. Class culture can promote the principles of life to students, introduce scientific learning methods to students, allow students to understand knowledge outside the textbooks, and enable students to be influenced by typical characters and typical deeds?

3. Class culture It can serve as a bridge to form a diligent and energetic class group. To form an excellent class group, it is not enough to just rely on the teacher's blind preaching. It also needs to organize students to carry out colorful and educational activities. , creating a harmonious and upward collective psychological atmosphere and satisfying students' psychological experience of collectivism. Most of these activities are within the scope of class culture. Through the construction and strengthening of class culture, it can inspire and mobilize the subject consciousness and participation consciousness of all students, allowing students to become the masters of the class collective, play the leading role in collective class cultural activities, and become passive acceptors. To actively adapt and achieve self-education.

4. Class culture can help students develop good behavioral habits and guide public opinion, enabling students to distinguish right from wrong and eliminate evil and correct things. It is not difficult to see that a arrogant student who bullies others and attempts to hit others will shrink back in front of collective public opinion. A student who does bad things that harm others and benefit himself will bow his head under the strong condemnation of the 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 encourage students to develop good behavioral habits.

About the history of class culture

Since children spend most of their study and life in class groups, class culture is the most direct and important way for students to receive education. one of the sources of influence. In this sense, the improvement of students' quality mainly depends on the construction of class culture. "Research on class culture and student quality development" is a topic with profound guiding significance and theoretical research value. According to the research plan, we have basically completed The task is scheduled and the project is close to completion, but we believe that the research on this topic has only come to an end temporarily.

We are well aware that, in line with the requirements of the development of the situation, due to limitations of research power and research time, some contents have not been studied in depth enough. On the basis of carefully summing up experience and shortcomings, we will use our strengths and avoid weaknesses to address We will conduct in-depth research on this topic and strive to build the school into a cross-century characteristic school that integrates science, artistry, experimentation, and innovation

American educational sociologist Waller said in "Teaching" The discussion on school culture in "Sociology" (1932) was the first to conduct research on class culture. In the 1950s and 1960s, discussions about youth culture and student culture types by Coleman and Clark in the United States and Hargreaves in the United Kingdom led to the systematic and scientific stage of class culture research. Since the 1970s, empirical analysis of the interaction process between school educational knowledge and classes, led by the British educational sociology community, 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, geography, education, clothing, etc. As class culture, it has its own extension and connotation just like architectural culture and food culture. First of all, it is a kind of personality culture, which represents the image of the class and reflects the life of the class. Secondly, it is the wealth created jointly by all the teachers and students of the class and the crystallization of the joint labor of all the teachers and students. Third, class culture is a dynamic and developing system project, and its main body is students.

Class culture is the soul of a class and is 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 students and the relationship between teachers and students that we have paid more attention to in the past, but also includes the relationships between teachers and teachers and parents that we tend to ignore. relation. The relationship between teachers and teachers is a synergistic relationship, and the relationship between teachers and parents is a complementary relationship.

Class culture can be divided into "hard culture" and "soft culture". The so-called hard culture is a kind of "explicit culture", which is tangible and visible environmental culture, that is, material culture, such as famous sayings and aphorisms on classroom walls, portraits of heroes or world celebrities; arranged in a horseshoe shape, Rectangular and oval tables and chairs; a calligraphy and painting gallery that displays students' calligraphy and painting art; a science popularization gallery that inspires students to explore the unknown world; a "little global village" that shows love; class mottos, class style and other eye-catching patterns and patterns hanging in front of the classroom Slogans and more. Soft culture is a kind of "hidden culture", including institutional culture, conceptual culture and behavioral culture.

Institutional culture includes various class rules, which constitute an institutionalized legal cultural environment; conceptual culture refers to various concepts about the class, students, society, life, world, and values. These concepts permeate every corner of the class and exert a subtle influence. Students; caused by systems and concepts, the speech, behavior and mental outlook shown by students are behavioral culture.