Abstract:

In order to find out the current status of labor education implementation and the current problems in primary and secondary schools labor education, East China Normal University Five Education Integration Research Center has recently distributed nearly 70 000 questionnaires for elementary and middle school teachers, parents and students nationwide. Through investigation, it is found that there is a certain difference in labor perception between adolescents and teachers; adolescents’ understanding of labor still needs to be further improved; teachers, students, and parents all have positive attitudes towards labor education; and the construction of labor education related systems needs to be further strengthened. In view of the shortcomings and deficiencies presented by current labor education, in the future, the strengthening, deepening and implementation of labor education should start from the following aspects. First, comprehensively analyzing adolescents’ cognition of labor, and promote their formation of a reasonable concept of labor based on their own characteristics. Second, continue to strengthen the teenagers’ concept of labor, improve labor awareness, and cultivate labor spirit. Third, break the barriers of discipline and build a labor education system. And finally, give full play to the educational strength of various practice areas and establish a multiple coordination innovation implementation system for labor education.

Key words: primary and secondary schools, labor education, investigation and analysis, all-around development, educational philosophy