Caring In Moral Education: March Towards Teacher's Meaning World

A teacher who has the pursuit of meaning will not complain the unfair material treatment he receives, neither will he give up on themselves simply because of poor working conditions, he will not give up the pursuit of educational innovation because of others' criticism. The calling of meaning generates eternal driving force, calling upon teachers to gradually enrich human nature in the process of education, and to express the self heartily. Teachers create, experience, enrich and perfect the educational life because they view it as an important part of their own life. Meaning moistens the lives of teachers and enriches their educational life.Every teacher pursues for meaning in educational work, they stretch their lives and improve the quality of life through the creation of meaning world, the calling of meaning enables the growth of teacher's morality in a more autonomous and natural way. However, the"forest path"of exploring the meaning sometimes tends to be obvious yet hidden, while hidden yet obvious for other time. In the process of uncovering and clarification, teachers may suffer setbacks or perhaps be fragile; they may feel lost or perhaps be blind. When the world of meaning loses its significance or retreats, the issue of teacher's virtue in their career highlights, such a negative symptom in the teaching career warns normal university to pay close attention to the issue of meaning in moral education.As normal students choose free education with different motivations, the conflict of text contract and implicit psychological contract always cause impact on individual pursuit of meaning. Some students cling to experience meaning, therefore can not understand the meaning and value of teaching profession, it is rather difficult for them to integrate the meaning and value of teaching profession with that of individual life. If simply relying on the teaching profession to achieve one's individual value of life, teachers' self-identity may then deviates, they can not understand, accept or agree the "planned future" which is ready for them, they can not fully understand the honor, responsibility and expectation given by the country, they are full of sense of loss and confusion towards future, their life is therefore filled with helplessness and emptiness, they can by no means fully experience or understand the meaning of current life.There are some other students who choose free education because of its "profit" may have protection on their individual interests, the superiority of free education eliminates the consciousness and willingness of pursuing for meaning, moral values become secular and utilitarian, the individuals take career simply as means of livelihood, they feel contented with the stability and ease of being a teach-book-smith, they can't feel truly the "significance" of teaching profession, and can't reach the realm of life of outstanding teachers. They lack internal motivation of self-improvement. To help the individuals walk out of the status of feeling lost, wake up the independent growth of life, and cultivate "outstanding teachers and future educators", present normal university must pay close attention to moral education, and the issue of meaning within it.We find from the survey that the breaking of current moral education and meaning education in normal university, the lack of attention to meaning in moral education lead to the loss of moral caring. The lack of guidance for free normal students lose the support of correct view of meaning, the "moral framework" in teachers' self-identification is imperfect, they can not understand the meaning of moral caring or fulfill caring in their behavior, hence the loss of moral caring inevitably results in friction between life and moral education, which causes the latter a substantial recession.As we find from the survey, there exists the loss of caring in current moral education of Normal University. Some free normal students are in the state of meaning confusion due to the loss of active oneself. To wake up a positive performance as life should presents, and enable moral education to radiate its vigor and vitality, we should re-embrace meaning caring. The caring moral education integrates value guidance and moral self construction, through spiritual caring, it enlightens and guides the individual to become moral self, professional self and the ideal perfect self. It is the starting point and destination of meaning caring in normal university moral education that it directs the individual to the orientation of "goodness" and provides driving force and sublimation force for personal growth.Harmonious education takes caring life as its moral orientation and "supreme goodness"as its concept, and takes an in-depth caring for life by spiritual caring. To avoid the friction between meaning caring in moral education and life, we should improve the reliability and depth of meaning caring. According to the relationship between moral practice and construction of meaning world, university moral education should try to enable free normal students to meet with morality and meaning and therefore leads them to walk into the meaning world of teachers. Moral practice and the construction of meaning world supplement each other, meaning without the guarantee of morality does not deserve the name of meaning, the creation of the world loses its "significance", or even drops to low tastes; morality without meaning is also just abstract moral creeds.The growth of morality guarantees and protects construction of meaning world, in the pursuit of meaning and the creation of the meaning world, the growth of teachers' morality becomes more autonomous and natural, moral and meaning meet with life and therefore produces enormous driving force and sublimation force. University moral education enters the meaning world, it is to extract a kind of spirit from the construction of it, so that those who plan to take teaching as a profession are inspired, educated and enlightened, hence truly understand the romance, sacredness and nobility of their chosen career, encouraging future teachers to enhance their vision and perfect their life. "To Meet with" enriches life, bathed in whose spiritual atmosphere, the educational life of future teachers, though full of merits through great efforts, it is yet full of poetic sense.New vision is needed to re-embrace moral caring. First of all, construct overall meaning education context and establish a platform for life and meaning to meet with each other. We should cultivate our awareness of moral education resources and integrate them into a combined force. Moral education courses and human resources of the university should also be integrated, and we should search for moral resources in both family and society, construct an open and great pattern of moral education. The process of constructing overall meaning educational resources is also the process of moral education becoming constantly open and returning to life moral education. Secondly, to ensure the practice of meaning caring in moral education, it is necessary to build up a team of teachers with high quality of ethics. The change of teacher's morality construction environment in transitional period, and the requirements of personal training objectives of free normal students pose the urgent need for teachers and educators to reshape teacher ethics. The moral trueness, goodness and beauty of teachers and educators enable them to have awareness and ability of moral caring. Pushed by the construction of new teachers' ethics, the teachers and educators, in the giving and receiving of spiritual caring, start to create poetic educational life. The key to re-embracing moral caring is to practice an interactive meaning caring in the process of moral education; its concrete expressions are as follows.First, replying the meaning of knowledge through textbooks, and enabling it to become a tool in exploring meaning. Taking integrated curriculum concept in viewing university curriculum, and through the textbook replying to the meaning of knowledge, interprets the relationship between moral practice and the creation of meaning world in specialized moral education curriculum and teacher education curriculum, so that individuals can understand meaning from each and every perspective. Textbooks tell teachers and students the caring and moisture it brings to life when morality meets with meaning, making a silent call on individuals to walk into textbooks and initiate "dialogues" with him, enlightening the individuals to transform, surpass and enhance the "awareness" of experience meaning, and play an active leading role in the process of moral and individual life practice. The reply of textbooks to meaning of knowledge lays foundation for the extension of moral spiritual caring, the bridging of relationship between caring and justice.Second, it is to promote the transformation and improvement of experience meaning, help to clarify the reasonable connotation of meaning in the teaching of moral education curriculum. To view the classroom teaching as a life experience of both teachers and students, and in the meaning world of classroom teaching, select and create situations to improve the quality of dialogue, cultivate individual ability of value selection and evaluation, encourage a positive emotional experience of the individual, strengthen individual understanding of meaning, establish a correct view of meaning, and provide direction and dynamic support for individuals to understand meaning from every perspective of moral education curriculum and life practice. Third, enlighten the individual to understand meaning through practical teaching. To sustain the outcome of restructuring experience meaning in moral education in classroom teaching, and to promote continued restructuring and improvement of experience meaning, moral education bases itself on the actual teaching condition, and integrates the teaching mode of "Teachers guide, students create" in teaching practice, understanding moral education in teaching, leading the individual to understand meaning, starting from the time being to accept the calling of "Meeting with " and to enrich and improve the self.Fourth, optimize campus ethical culture and cultivate morality through good atmosphere. To highlight the practical and progressive nature of moral education, create good ethical culture in university, so that individuals may roam in the meaning world, unconsciously influenced by meaning.Fifth, construct the trinity moral system with university playing the leading role, the positive interaction and sustainable caring of university, family and society establish the platform of "Meeting with", so as to sustain, strengthen and consolidate the outcome of school moral education. School moral education cares for students' living world, which matches moral education in family and society, preventing negative factors of family and society correcting the meaning experience of individuals, moral education return to the living world, and forms a combined force of meaning caring, enriches meaningful learning experiences of students. Moral education return to the living world, and to the situation and experience of individual life, in student's expression of gratitude towards the family and serving the country with their caring behaviors, it generates resonance between them and others as well as the society. In the positive emotional experience, they can fully understand human dignity, value and meaning. Starting from the time being, they proceed from natural caring to ethical caring.Moral caring provides a clear meaning vision for individuals,enlightens and leads the individuals to receive and accept the calling of "Meeting with", taking it as the driving force and sublimation force from the time being, the individual approaches the moral self, professional self and the ideal perfect self.In the creation of teachers'meaning world,the enhancement of life realm perfectly integrates with the happy life of teachers; they therefore become the unique presenter of teachers' life.In the pursuit of meaning educational life,the caring of moral education enables a complete person, and leads people towards a better life.