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To understand what is "core literacy", we need to understand the meaning of "literacy" first. Different scholars have different definitions of this.
At the beginning of the first chapter, the author briefly explained his understanding of literacy in one sentence. The author believes that literacy refers to something valuable and meaningful to people's development, life and study. Then it systematically combs the source, composition and characteristics of literacy.
As can be seen from the picture, literacy is the product of heredity, environment, education and self-education, in which education plays a leading role. As far as composition is concerned, literacy includes a person's mental outlook, personality temperament, behavior habits and way of thinking. In other words, the formation of literacy is a process in which external factors act on a person to cause internal changes, and then change his thinking, cognition and behavior. From the characteristics of literacy, we can see that it is not single, and there is no widely accepted definition and unified theory. It is extensive, comprehensive, inclusive and stable. Personally, it is a person's spiritual world, which determines the height and depth of a person's life and the quality and quality of a person's life. In other words, literacy is integrated into a person's life, which is the embodiment of the intrinsic value of life. From this perspective, the "moral education" advocated by our country also influences everyone from the perspective of sustainable development through the leading role of education, thus forming their literacy.
As for the word "literacy", the author has made a systematic and in-depth combing, from which we can see that literacy is not only a cognitive activity at the thinking level, but also a comprehensive embodiment of one's psychology, cognition and behavior. The author's combing helps us to build a framework, understand literacy from different perspectives and levels, deepen our understanding of "literacy", clarify concepts, and point out the direction for future teaching actions.
I didn't quite understand why we should advocate "moral cultivation" and "ideological and political course construction" before, but I learned the direction of curriculum reform in primary and secondary schools through reading this book, and now it has entered the era of core literacy, which is consistent with the moral cultivation and ideological and political course construction of university courses. I think its purpose is to better cultivate a person's inner quality and character. We can't teach with the mentality of being eager for quick success and instant benefit, so although a person walks fast, he may not go far. For education and teaching, we should pay more attention to students' sustainable development and lifelong development. In other words, if a person's spiritual world has thickness, temperature and height, then its future development may not necessarily go fast, but it will certainly go far.
It turns out that it is. Many news reports also show this point. The following are some news reports I got through Baidu search. As can be seen from the screenshots, although some children left quickly, some were admitted to prestigious schools and some became doctoral students, they chose to end their lives due to various pressures from family, school and society. Why is this? Isn't it the pinnacle of life to be admitted to a prestigious school and become a doctor? Why did you choose to end your life after your success? These problems deserve our deep thought.
Qu Yuan once said: It's a long way to go, but it's Xiu Yuan, so I will go up and down. The road to truth-seeking is long and arduous, which requires constant exploration and unremitting pursuit. I think this sentence also applies to the formation of a person's literacy. This shows how important literacy is to a person's long-term development.
At the beginning of page 12, the author made a concise summary: literacy permeates people's whole mind and covers all their spiritual worlds. Its formation is the result of the interaction of many complex factors.
From the perspective of education and teaching, the word literacy contains many contents. What if it can be practiced in education and teaching? This requires us to combine teaching practice, take its essence from both quantity and quality, refine its key, and find out the core of literacy according to the characteristics of students' development.
Key ability
In "Opinions on Comprehensively Deepening Curriculum Reform and Implementing Lide Shu Ren's Fundamental Task", the Ministry of Education clearly defines core literacy as "the necessary character and key ability that students should possess to meet the needs of lifelong development and social development". According to its definition, Professor Yu elaborated on his personality and ability.
As shown in the picture, character is the foundation of human life and the cornerstone of a happy life (moral life); Ability is the foundation of a person's work and the cornerstone of a successful life (intelligent life). Character is an essential force with the most human nature as the main body, which has inherent germinability. And ability is an essential strength that people as the main body are most proud of, which contains people's creativity, initiative and endogeneity.
Ability is an intellectual factor, and personality is a non-intellectual factor. This means that our teaching has changed from knowledge-based to human development-based. People-oriented, moral education first. Education is not only to pass on words to solve doubts, but also to impart knowledge, which is far from meeting the development needs of students. Because our time has entered the information age. The endless flood of information, the rapidly accelerated social mobility, the ever-changing development of science and technology, a large number of emerging occupations and the unpredictable virtual world provide opportunities and conditions for a person's choice and free development. At the same time, it will be submerged in the flood of information, suffering from information overload, information anxiety and information fatigue; Virtual world may also make personal identity lost and self-concept vague; The rapid changes in society and occupation also challenge the adaptability of individuals. How to act independently in the increasingly diversified and rapidly changing information age, globalization age and knowledge society has become a new topic for personal and social development. In such a development environment, education also needs to adapt to the needs of the times, so the concept of core literacy came into being.