Study on Education and Management of University Students in the New Period

Ma, Zhanjun, Asian Social Science

In recent years, with vigorous development of education, education in universities and colleges has realized a historic leap, with continuous expansion of the scale of running a school, continuous deepening of teaching reform and flexible and diverse talent training mode, which increases difficulty in education and management of university students. The overall characteristics of contemporary university students have taken deep changes. For instance, their independence, selectivity, diversity and difference become more and more reinforced, and, to different degrees, some university students are obscure in their belief of ideals, weak in the consciousness of honesty, and lacking in social responsibility, the spirit of hard working and plain living and the concept of solidarity and cooperation, so new subjects have been proposed for education and management of university student. With continuous improvement of the national legal establishment, independence and legal consciousness of young students become more and more strengthened, and new challenges will have to be faced up with for education and management of university students. Traditional education concept arranges content of education starting from the demand on human nature of being genuine, good and aesthetic, as a result of which the lopsided development of personality is caused. However, the people-oriented scientific outlook on development focuses on the coordinated and healthy development of the three aspects of human itself, that is, knowledge, emotion and awareness and concentrates on the overall development of university students' independence, harmony and creativity. Therefore, previous management ideas, management modes and management methods have not been adaptive to changes of the situation and requirements of development. In the new situation, the outlook on development in higher education which regards people orientation as a harmonious society practically strengthen education and management of university students, promotes healthy growth of university students and cultivates a batch of qualified and high quality professional talents, which is the objective requirement of development of the era, is urgent demand for teaching in conformity with law and to promote overall, coordinated and sustainable development of higher education and is also the urgent need to realize the cultivation target of education in a new period.

1. To come to full realization of the importance and urgency of strengthening education and management of university students

1.1 Reinforcement of education and management of university students is the fundamental requirement to carry out the guidelines of CPC for education and practice the education spirit of CCP

The fundamental issue of education is what kind of people to cultivate and how to cultivate people. Hu Jintao has emphasized, "What kind of people to cultivate and how to cultivate people is a fundamental issue we have to resolve in an appropriate way in development of socialist education." Without doubt, with several years' efforts, universities are definite in the issue of direction of "what kind of people to cultivate", but much has been left to be desired in the issue of "how to cultivate people" although they have made great efforts and done a lot of work.

Further research and discussion is required in terms of thinking, approaches, methods and measures of guarantee, etc. The CCP has clearly mentioned, the primary task to reinforce the ideological and political education of university students is ideals and beliefs education, patriotism education, civic virtues education and quality-oriented education. However, as a result of inadequate education and management of university students, students in some universities do not cherish their lives, with weak legal consciousness, fragile psychological quality and insufficient social responsibility, which leads to security accidents, unstable factors and great social response. Although such cases are just a few, hyper vigilance has to …

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Publication information: Article title: Study on Education and Management of University Students in the New Period. Contributors: Ma, Zhanjun - Author. Journal title: Asian Social Science. Volume: 6. Issue: 6 Publication date: June 2010. Page number: 133+. © 2010 Canadian Center of Science and Education (CCSE). COPYRIGHT 2010 Gale Group.

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